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Originally posted by bozman:
Naval Aviator...

Clinton helped dash those dreams (military service).

However, I did work hard, saved money and paid for my own pilot training. I achieved my goal of becoming an aviator I just don't fly the sexy stuff (instead I rent, borrow and steal Cessna 172's to punch holes in the sky).

Me too! I tried the army and was told "i wasn't black and i didnt have tits." God damned afirmative action.

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Originally posted by gw3971:

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Originally posted by bozman:
Naval Aviator...

Clinton helped dash those dreams (military service).

However, I did work hard, saved money and paid for my own pilot training. I achieved my goal of becoming an aviator I just don't fly the sexy stuff (instead I rent, borrow and steal Cessna 172's to punch holes in the sky).

Me too! I tried the army and was told "i wasn't black and i didnt have tits." God damned afirmative action.

Give it a rest fellas. 1st, the huge cuts to the military started at the end of the Bush 41 administration. 2nd, I was in flight school in the 1st Clinton administration, 1st in pilot training and then navigator training. The big cuts started under Bush 41, and even under Clinton the overwhelming majority of people in flight school were white males.

If you didn't make it sorry, but it wasn't because of Clinton, and wasn't because white males were being discriminated against in the 90s. I got into pilot training in the leanest years in history for the military, and know that white males weren't discriminated against. I'm not a pilot because I screwed up the opportunity I got, not because I'm a white male.

First, Air Force pilot. Crummy vision ruled that out. Then airline pilot. Made it through my instrument rating, then 9/11 put a dent in the airline industry. There were too many pilots already furloughed/out of work for me to incur the debt to finish flight training.

So I went to pharmacy school. Most days it's ok, but the stranglehold the insurance companies have on healthcare fields including pharmacy is making it harder and harder all the time...

As a kid I wanted to be a professional baseball player. Never had close to the talent to make that happen. In HS my dad (30+ year CG aviator and Air Station Commanding Officer at the time) told me the CG would teach me how to shoot and how to fly. I listened to that sage advice, best thing I ever did. I knew then that I wanted to eventually be an airline pilot, and after 20 years in the CG I got that chance. Flying boxes instead of people, but its been a good second choice . I still would like to have been a baseball player though.

I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

While growing up I always wanted to be a farmer/rancher like my grandpa, but by the time I got into high school, my grandparents passed away and the family farm got sold off.

Then I thought I wanted to be a gunsmith, even went to a year long machinist program at the community college, but didn't like it and never touched a machine afterward.

Worked odd jobs after high school and found out my girlfriend was pregnant and I knew I needed insurance and a steady income, so applied to work at a prison. Worked there for several years and eventually went to the police academy and moved to the Probation and Parole side of things. Also worked part-time for the County Sheriff's Office where I lived as a bailiff/process server.

Never had any aspirations of being in law enforcement, but I'm still at it and just passed the 29 year mark in April. I retired from one agency after 25 years and am now working for another. I sometimes think I'd like to quit and do something else, but I have no idea what it would be.

Oh, and I'm still married to the same great woman.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
Porn star

Gay Porn Star?....not that there's anything wrong with that.

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Originally posted by tdp113530:

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
Porn star

Gay Porn Star? not that there's anything wrong with that.

Not my first choice. Wait, will there be cake?

Wanted to be an Army officer. Did it.

Wanted to be a Business Man. Doing it.

Wanted to be a Husband / Dad. Doing it.

NOW I am trying to figure out what to do for - as the song says - My Next Thirty Years...

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I wanted to wake up one day and discover I was the 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ.

But I woke up one day and discovered I didn't plan very well for the future.

I always wanted to be a touring musician. I still feel like it's what I should have done. Couldn't afford to go to GIT, couldn't afford decent gear but I practiced in every spare moment. I auditioned and fit into a popular local band but couldn't take the job because they required I quit my day job. I came to the conclusion that music is for the rich.

Besides that, I just couldn't stand the culture. The drugs and drinking made it so unappealing. 99% of the other musicians were flakey, late for everything and just annoying. Always majoring in the minors.

In Catholic grade school I wanted to become a priest. In high school I wanted to become a policeman.

After the Air Force, I worked in a grocery store until I figured out what I wanted to do.
32 years later I was a retired produce manager.
Finally the real wish has come true---been retired for 17 years. Living the dream.

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Originally posted by Denny220:

Finally the real wish has come true---been retired for 17 years. Living the dream.

Isn't this the truth?

After nearly 60 years of gainful employment, working my way through high school, college, law school, sometimes several jobs at a time, hustling, constantly striving to better myself, build the businesses, avoid disaster, the toil and strife, constant pressures to excel, I finally had to retire with this debilitating lung disease that will soon kill me, and you know what, after a couple of years of retirement, I have realized what I am best at, enjoy the most, is doing nothing! I never planned to retire.

I don't do anything anymore but lay around and read, ~20 hours a day. I read whatever I want, explore topics, learn all sorts of unsuspectedly fascinating stuff. I'm a natural! This was my true calling all along, and even compliments my other passion, procrastinating!

The main trouble is that it is hard to tell whether one is doing nothing, or putting it off. Other than that, and breathing, living the dream!

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

I don't do anything anymore but lay around and read, ~20 hours a day. I read whatever I want, explore topics, learn all sorts of unsuspectedly fascinating stuff. I'm a natural! This was my true calling all along, and even compliments my other passion, procrastinating!

The main trouble is that it is hard to tell whether one is doing nothing, or putting it off. Other than that, and breathing, living the dream!

Well I for one appreciate your posts.

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First and foremost, a pilot. Next is a brew master. I am still working on the capitol to support both ventures.

I wanted to be a cop, did that, kind of. K-9 handler in the Air Force, applied to the Florida Highway Patrol when I got discharged and got accepted to the academy but turned it down. The background check took so long and I needed a job I went somewhere else before the offer.

I still look back and wish I had followed the LEO path, of course I would have been retired before all this crazy shit started happening to LEO's

Always wanted to become LEO since I was a smal child. Father spent 25 years LEO. Couple of uncles and few cousins are/were also LEO. Spent 3 years in college studying Criminal Justice. Came close to becoming one with a local PD. Then, it was gone. Long story. They must have found something that didn't click with them. I was told I was disqualifiwd due to "non-participation". I was told I did not show up for my lie detector test. I asked for copy of the notification letter they supposedly sent me. They couldn't produce one. I call it BS. To this day, I stil wish I became one.

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Originally posted by SIG4EVA:
First and foremost, a pilot. Next is a brew master. I am still working on the capitol to support both ventures.

A very wealthy man (and customer) once told me, "Having money does not define your life. The hardest thing in life is knowing what you want to do. When you have that figured out, then you figure out how to do it with the money you have". True story which has stuck with me these past 18 years.

Sounds like you have the right formula to achieve what you want to do. Me, I stopped drinking, smoking, going to bars, clubs, restaurants, etc, and I'm still broke all the time. Where did the money come from before?

When I turned 17, I wanted to be a Marine. Not just a Marine, but a Field Artillery Marine. I have no idea where that come from, but after arguing with my Recruiter, he convinced me that Avionics was what I wanted; he had a quota.

While in Vietnam (in my second year) I decided that this was the life I wanted. I reenlisted and retired 18 years later.

Now, at 64, I have no idea what I want to be. Life has been good to me, I have a great and supportive wife, a daughter, 3 grand-kids and 1 great-grandson.

Happily floating along in life is all I really need. As long as it includes family, motorcycles, knives and guns.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by tdp113530:

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
Porn star

Gay Porn Star? not that there's anything wrong with that.

Not my first choice. Wait, will there be cake?

LOL....