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I've always been jealous of those people who have known from childhood that they want to go into law or medicine, or more importantly they have a dream they can chase. Myself I've never known what I want to be or do and so I'm getting more and more frustrated by the whole thing.



So a question. Are you doing what you've always wanted to do? Are you where you want to be at this stage in life?



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Post by Big_Adam »

belchingmatt wrote:So a question. Are you doing what you've always wanted to do? Are you where you want to be at this stage in life?
No clue on the 1st no clue on the 2nd.



They loved me in school with answers like that.




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Very helpful. Strangely though I can relate to it. <!--emo&:unsure:--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/unsure.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='unsure.gif' /><!--endemo-->




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Post by Big_Adam »

I always just sort of go



"I'll....do....THAT ONE"



That was for college, didn't know what I wanted to do so I just went....."THAT ONE" then got annoyed with that and went PC's.




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From the first time I saw a professor brainstorm book, I knew that was going to be me. I was always only really interested in maths and science, got strait As and went to Oxford.



There I discovered Beer and Women and kinda forgot about the academic thing...



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belchingmatt wrote:So a question. Are you doing what you've always wanted to do? Are you where you want to be at this stage in life?
That's two questions. <!--emo&:rolleyes:--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/rolleyes.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='rolleyes.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:P--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo-->





Am I doing what I always wanted to do? I'm an accountant, what do you think? <!--emo&<_<--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/dry.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='dry.gif' /><!--endemo-->



Am I where I want to be? Er, no. Where I want to be involves a lot more money than I currently have.





My boyhood dream was actually to be a pilot. I got as far as having an informal chat with an RAF recruitment officer when I was about 16, but the health and fitness standards would have blocked me (I have a spinal problem, nothing major, but it would have been enough to fail the medical). So much for that dream. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Since then, I've just been dossing around from job to job with no real idea of what I wanted to do. I got into accountancy a couple of years back after I decided it was time I got a proper career going. It's not fantastic, but the money's good (eventually) and I seem to be pretty good at it. So it'll do for now! <!--emo&:unsure:--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/unsure.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='unsure.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Post by KindaWobbly »

belchingmatt wrote:Are you doing what you've always wanted to do?
Well, I do vaguely recall wanting to get paid for drawing pictures when I was young, and I do actually get paid for drawing pictures.



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Post by 0_Koneko_0 »

I want to be a mum. Stupid biological programming.



Only thing is, I am shite at everything you need to be one. I can't clean, I swear like a trooper and the only thing I can do is cook and look after children.....><




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Post by JJW009 »

Been thinking about this a lot. Not so much what I wanted to be when I was a kid, but just what I want now. I've pretty much got the whole plan sorted out, and as I think I randomly spouted in a drunken way at the party everything is connected:



Want: nice woman to play happy families with.



To that end; everything else is determined by the society in which you choose to live. Of course, we are limited to a certain extent as to what society we can live in. If you're born to a starving family in the third world, then you'll probably die there. I was lucky enough to be born in England where everyone has options open to them depending only on their own ability to make it work for them. I believe that's more true here than in America; but either is better than some war torn hell.



It would be great to live on a coconut paradise, and I'm sure I've got some dominant Island Paradise gene in me because all I really want to do is drink, catch coconuts, catch a few tasty crustations in a rock-pool and catch a tasty long-haired girl with curvy hips to make babies with.



Unfortunately, modern society has destroyed all of these paradises. Your average beach comber isn't going to be able to afford a roof over their heads, let alone all the bling-bling expected by even the most modest of ladies. These days, looking after a family means a house and money. Money means working. A nice house means working.



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Post by Mr_Trainspotting »

seriosly I wanted to be epic.



Sadly I am not epic.



I wanted to be a space fighter pilot, an epic cybertrooper, a netspace hacker, a fascist dictator, an epic hero, a revolutonary, a mighty scientist who could transcend dimensions!



However.



I am a Database Administrator...

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A perpetually single Database Administrator.



With a hugging pillow.



I do however have over 40 anime figures, and I have had dinner with Halko Momoi. So it's not all bad.



Excuse? Life.
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Post by paulpowers »

Mr_Trainspotting wrote:
I am a Database Administrator...

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A perpetually single Database Administrator.
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but I did the hacking thing about 10 - 15 years ago and the political thing (we all remember where that got me)

so all in all it aint so bad




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Post by Freebo »

belchingmatt wrote:So a question. Are you doing what you've always wanted to do? Are you where you want to be at this stage in life?
I dunno, since about 5 years ago i wanted to either build/repair PC's or be a traffic policeman or an armed policeman, and well being 16 cant do the police route yet.. but i do build/repair laptops so im sorta where i wanna be <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->



So i suppose yes and no, no simply cus well my boss sucks.. so does the company and laptops..




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Post by Mr_Trainspotting »

No don't do it IT support is a road to becoming an empty and hollow shell of a man.
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Posted by me on MUMP; regurgitated here for general consumption: wrote:[quote=""cloaked_wolf""]Supposedly our sense of time alters as we age, which is why, as a child, a minute lasts forever and as an adult, it disappears within an instant.


It's a simple percentage thing; combined with the Buddhist concept that we live our life in Moments rather than Minutes.



Even if we had a uniform distribution of *moments* through our lives, the percentage of moments in this year relative to all the moments that came before is forever diminishing.



When you are 10 year old, 5 years = 99% of your living memories

When you are 40 years old, 5 years = 15% of your memory



Combine this with the diminishing number of moments generated when life is boring, and you get a formula of 3 variables:



Real Time

Perceived Time

Moment Density



One of these variables you can actually do something about. By increasing Moment Density, you can effectively slow down the rate at which you perceive your life to be running out.



Go travel the world and take pictures and make some moments. It's better than 9 'til 5 every-day-the-same moment-free monotony.



Graphs to follow; if I can be arsed to find my Crayolas.[/quote]




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