FabSwingers.com forum: When I grow up...

By *dam1971 OP Man
over a year ago

Bedford

What did you want to be? Did anyone ever get useful advice from a careers teacher?

Did you get to do your dream and did it work out?

This was inspired by the Tim Minchin song “When I grow up” which is hauntingly beautiful. I knew I would be stronger when I grew up, but as he says: strong enough to carry all the things you need to carry when you’re grown up? Think I underestimated that!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A fashion designer, ballerina and archeologist. I havent done any of those but I still enjoy exploring fabrics and patterns and different combinations.. dancing makes me happy and free and I miss going to museums these days.

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By *ob Carpe DiemMan
over a year ago

Torquay

"What did you want to be? Did anyone ever get useful advice from a careers teacher?

Did you get to do your dream and did it work out?

Civil engineer building huge suspension bridges, someone else got the gig

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By *riar BelisseWoman
over a year ago

On Holibobs

I wanted to be oceanographer

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By *lbinoGorillaMan
over a year ago

Redditch

I wanted to be a teacher. Tried it, but it wasn't for me.

25 years later and I still have no idea what I want to be

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They told me I should be a politician. Wasn’t interested in politics though

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By *dam1971 OP Man
over a year ago

Bedford

"They told me I should be a politician. Wasn’t interested in politics though

It’s good to have the sexual deviance in case you want to become a Tory MP

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wanted to be a chef in the army... Got the chef bit, but wasn't accepted into the army.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fast jet pilot, wasn’t clever enough though

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

I wanted to work in I.T. and did so.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

For years I wanted to be a teacher...can't think of much worse now!

Also dreamt of being a professional singer, not famous but singing for my supper as it were.

I'm not a singer either....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All i wanted to be was a mum and in later years a granny.

I'm both

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By *r.HMan
over a year ago

A gentleman never tells

Like most boys I wanted to be a professional footballer, got as high as county standard getting paid for playing week in week out but alas drink, drugs and girls were my downfall

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

I never really knew as a kid as I had so many interests .

And now at 43 , I still dont know

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A priest. I guess I got the celibacy without being ordained

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By *moothdickMan
over a year ago

stoke

The teacher told me I wouldn’t get paid for looking out of the window ..

I became a lorry driver and got paid for doing exactly that

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By *rystal DreamtimeTV/TS
over a year ago

horsham

I never knew it was my dream , but I followed a career path that is was the only thing I wanted to be with enthusiasm. it’s only now I look back and think , yes I did live my dream and still do .. Not the most romantic of dreams in many ways .. I do however still enjoy it massively ..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What did you want to be? Did anyone ever get useful advice from a careers teacher?

Did you get to do your dream and did it work out?

Wanted to be a cook...and I knew I will!and I become one...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I also would have liked to become an elite Swimmer, but didn’t have the height or size of hands and feet to do that. I stopped growing by the time I was 14 so my height advantage as an early developer soon disappeared. My desire to be a priest disappeared at a very young age when I discovered I really liked girls. I got virtually no useful career advice in school and basically did what my Dad thought would be best for me with a nod to my favourite science subject.

I was much better at languages and English than the sciences but was told I’d not get a decent job with an arts degree so do Engineering. I studied Maths, Physics and Chemistry to A Level, lost interest in them as I discovered a passion for more spiritual pursuits and scraped enough marks to study Engineering. My interest in the spiritual waned as the sexual took over in my years at Uni. Again I scraped through my degree through a lack of aptitude in complex Maths and a very uninspiring approach to lecturing employed at the Uni. It did open the door though to a career than began in Engineering but soon evolved into working with people to make things better. As I developed this aspect of work I was increasingly able to integrate things I was truly passionate about into my work and continue to do that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm still struggling with the "when I grow up"....

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