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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? ------- Trying to simplify my life... | ||
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Ignored facts still exist |
A hospitalization ended my dream of making it through the academy and joining the San Jose Police. That was almost 30 years ago. ---------------------- Let's Go Brandon! | |||
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Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
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 I said no because I didn't want the soul crushing experience of the people I most admire saying "no." They are incredible people. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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I believe in the principle of Due Process |
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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Diversified Hobbyist |
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. ----------------------------------- Regards, Steve The anticipation is often greater than the actual reward | |||
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Muzzle flash aficionado |
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. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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Certified Plane Pusher |
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. Situation awareness is defined as a continuous extraction of environmental information, integration of this information with previous knowledge to form a coherent mental picture in directing further perception and anticipating future events. Simply put, situational awareness mean knowing what is going on around you. | |||
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Sigforum K9 handler |
A Marine Corps helicopter pilot. | |||
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Alea iacta est |
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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Oh stewardess, I speak jive. |
A camera man for things like BBC Earth, especially the underwater footage. | |||
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Invisible. Still have that wish sometimes. | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
Porn star הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Serenity now! |
I always wanted to be a doctor, and sometimes really wish I had gone down that path. Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice - pull down your pants and slide on the ice. ʘ ͜ʖ ʘ | |||
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Honky Lips |
Asteroid Baron, like the industrial giants of the turn of the last century. | |||
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Do you have pics? | |||
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Slayer of Agapanthus |
A quantum neurologist or quantum biophysicist. In some other multiverse, I am. "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre. | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
On my website. I'll need your credit card number. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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always with a hat or sunscreen |
Healthy in retirement.... Certifiable member of the gun toting, septuagenarian, bucket list workin', crazed retiree, bald is beautiful club! USN (RET), COTEP #192 | |||
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This thread is just fine without pics! "I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared." Thomas Jefferson | |||
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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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