RedSea4u

What did you want to be when you grew up? Did you achieve it, if not what did you become?

At various times, a paleantologist (loved dinosaurs and still do), egyptologist and an artist... what did I become? A Bank Manager! Where did I go wrong? Anyway, at least I live near wonderful Egyptological sites.

At various times, a paleantologist (loved dinosaurs and still do), egyptologist and an artist... what did I become? A Bank Manager! Where did I go wrong? Anyway, at least I live near wonderful Egyptological sites.

I always wanted to be a monk! God alone knows why since I'm female! But it always looked such fun!

I wanted to be a pilot.
I learned to fly when I was younger but I couldn't fly fast jets because I had 99% vision in one of my eyes.
The RAF said I could still be a navigator but I always wanted to be the pilot so that was the end of my flying career.

An Adult

I liked the idea of being a Vet but then realised I would have to put animals down so went off that idea
A Forensic Scientist but I worked in a Path Lab for work experience & it was really repetitive
Settled on Environmental Science but got engaged & trained as a teacher, as the Uni was too far away Teaching was OK but decided I didn't like kids so ended up in Insurance, then Accounts Manager, Co Sec & finally Managing a Property Company

I always wanted to be an explorer maybe time yet!!!

Like Andy when I was a boy I wanted to be a pilot. Crap eyesight when I reached 11 soon put paid to that idea though. Then I was going into the aircraft industry just at the time when British avistion took a serious nosedive in the early 60's. So, I joined the government as a research engineer (all very hush, hush stuff) A change of government in 1967 threatened the security of that line of work so, having developed some skills in electronics I became a transistor engineer for 4 years. From there I went into consumer electronics until 1994 when I took redundancy and became an AV engineer at a university. I retired as manager of the department last year. Over the last 8 years I worked part time on reconstructing vintage aircraft for a local specialist so, I guess my career turned almost full circle.
There, my 50 years of working life in a nutshell.

I've never wanted to be anything, but I've had great fun all the same, I left school at 16 taught gymnastics/trampoline at the sports centre summer holiday sessions aswell as being a part time pool attendant there, after the summer I worked in an office for a while , boring, then did a summer season as a green coat ( like blue or red but at Warners)on the Isle of Wight, then went to Spain as a dancer, then Portugal, Italy etc, finally got to Far East and then Alexandria(still as dancer) in '83. Returned to uk in '92, worked as classroom asst, tv extra, caterer, sold new build houses and apartments and then came here. I have no ambition whatsoever, and just drift along, but I've had a lot of fun and made some great friends all over, and I'm happy. How many can say that, especially in UK. Here's to a happy life

Tall and without freckles!

Seriously I wanted to be a Vulcanologist.

Semsema wrote:Tall and without freckles!

Seriously I wanted to be a Vulcanologist.

That's different Semsema

I have always been fascinated by Volcanos. The power and force is absolutely tremendous and to think that all that is just below our feet in some cases is mind boggling.

We went to a volcano national park in Lanzerote a few years ago. The ground was hot to the touch and you could see the red hot magma flowing below the ground through a collapsed larva tunnel.
The guides there had a trick of tipping a bucket of water down a hole and stepping back just as a great jet of steam roared back out of the hole.
Awesome

Don't know yet, its too soon to tell.

As to what happened - marriage (at a very young age i.e. 16) is what happened. Then along came my daughters, so settled for an office job instead.

As for settling in a volcanoless place, yes this is true, but then i discovered that I COULD swim while still breathing and not drown, fell in love with Egypt and decided to settle here.

Notes for a young vulcanologist:

Q. What do you do if caught in the path of a pyroclastic flow: A. Never allow yourself to be found in such a position.