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When I was little, I wanted to be a car designer. I drew many cars, engines, frames, wheels, dashboards, and interiors. I wish I was one, still. What career did you dream for yourself, and would gladly still strive to be?


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A hospitalization ended my dream of making it through the academy and joining the San Jose Police. That was almost 30 years ago.


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On a personal level, I wanted to better husband, father, and friend.

Sadly, today it looks like I fucked at least two of those up.

Professionally, I wanted to be a CIA case officer. I knew many, including one family and one extended family member.

With no college degree, no military experience, and a closet warehouse of skeletons, when there was a tiny, tiny chance (because at that time I was young and had a really strange skill set) I said "no."

I said no because I didn't want the soul crushing experience of the people I most admire saying "no."

They are incredible people.





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One of my ambitions was to be catcher for the Yankees, like Yogi Berra.

I read that he could throw someone out trying to steal second without getting out of his crouch. (This may not have been actually true). I worked on that and my catching skills for several years while in Little League. Our team had a catcher, whose dad was one of the coaches, who may still hold the record for passed balls. I knew I could do better than this bozo and finally convinced the Manager to let me try.

Eventually a runner on first tried to steal, and without standing up, I threw the ball right into the right handed batter's ear, knocking him out. This was back in the barbaric '50' before batting helmets. I never played catcher again.

This is just one reason why there are no left handed catchers.

The other hurdles I had to overcome were being slow, skinny and a lousy hitter.




Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
 
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Electrical Engineer or Military officer.
After a circuitous journey including MANY different jobs, I became a degreed Electrical Engineer.
Never solved the static interference problem on AM radio I thought about solving as a kid though.


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Frankly, as a child I don't know that I had a particular job in mind that I wanted. I don't remember wanting to be a policeman, fireman, pilot, or anything else.

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I think I'm in the majority of controllers who always wanted to be pilots but something always got in the way.

I wish I could be the person my dogs think I am. Wink



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A Marine Corps helicopter pilot.




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For the most part, I'm doing what I wanted to do when I grew up. I took a very different route to get here than I thought I would, and had I taken the original route I'd probably be making 5x the money, but I'd also be living in a major metro and missing out in the simple things like a backyard, a charcoal grill, fishing, shooting, and the like.

Overall, I'm fairly happy, I suppose. Doesn't matter, can't go back and change any of it anyway.

Quod periit, periit.
 
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Invisible. Still have that wish sometimes.
 
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Porn star



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Serenity now!
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I always wanted to be a doctor, and sometimes really wish I had gone down that path.



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Asteroid Baron, like the industrial giants of the turn of the last century.
 
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A quantum neurologist or quantum biophysicist. In some other multiverse, I am.


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Porn star
Do you have pics?
On my website. I'll need your credit card number.



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Healthy in retirement....



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Porn star
Do you have pics?
On my website. I'll need your credit card number.


This thread is just fine without pics!



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Okay, this sounds stupid, but I always wanted to be a Correctional Officer. I was going to settle for police officer, but a strange twist of fate in the military provided me with the secondary MOS in Corrections. When I got out I went to work for the Bureau of Prisons. I retired 25 years later and now work as an account manager supervising contract corrections officers escorting convicts out for medical treatment. I just love locking people up, I guess.
 
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