What did you want to be

I always wanted to be an internet message board gobsh*te.....don't think I've quite mastered it yet but I'm getting there (observing certain posters is helping 👀).

In all seriousness, aside from the usual desire to be a policeman when I was very little, my first serious career aim was to be an architect. I used to love technical drawing at school and naively thought that was all there was to it. When I went on work experience to an architects I found out how central maths was to the job and given I used to use my toes for counting I was that bad with numbers, that dream was effectively crushed.
 
Centralscrutinizer said:
I was hoping you'd say The Oriana, that's the one I worked on 👍
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That was a lovely ship and a massive upgrade on the Strathmore which from memory didn't have stabilisers.
It was very exciting to be on the Oriana, particularly because we were all so homesick and so much looking
forward to being reunited with my grandparents.
It didn't last long though as in 67 we immigrated to America only to return to England nine months later.
My parents just couldn't seem to settle hence our return to Oz in 69.
I'm envious of you working on the ship, I fell in love with being at sea and calling in to all those exotic ports.
It was the reason why I had ambitions of joining the Navy.
What was your position on the Oriana ?
 
redblood said:
That was a lovely ship and a massive upgrade on the Strathmore which from memory didn't have stabilisers.
It was very exciting to be on the Oriana, particularly because we were all so homesick and so much looking
forward to being reunited with my grandparents.
It didn't last long though as in 67 we immigrated to America only to return to England nine months later.
My parents just couldn't seem to settle hence our return to Oz in 69.
I'm envious of you working on the ship, I fell in love with being at sea and calling in to all those exotic ports.
It was the reason why I had ambitions of joining the Navy.
What was your position on the Oriana ?
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I was a marine engineer on there. Was on there in it's later days when it was doing the South Pacific cruises out of Sydney. Great days 👍
 
When I was <10 I wanted something to do with dinosaurs (didn't know what a Paleontologist was until I heard it on Friends about two decades later)
Boro player was next, until I couldn't get in the school footy team, then my aims became more realistic :LOL:
Then it was architect
Then it was computer nerd

Strangely enough it was my first part time job in sales (unreal commission as I spotted a loop hole) which led to me being very well off for a 17 year old, but this in turn meant I could afford to get hammered all the time, so blew my A-levels, and alas the computer nerd dream ended. Passed the forces tests to go work on fighter jets though, so my good luck became bad luck, which became good luck. Now I'm similar to an architect, effectively a construction designer, working back up the list. Hoping for my first boro game at 45, then might start finding dinosaurs when I'm 70 odd.
 
BumTrumpet57 said:
I grew up wanting to play and Captain the Boro. Even told that to the careers guy who saw me at school….he laughed. Second to that I wanted to be a fireman, but for whatever reason I never went after it. After Uni and some S&@t jobs I joined the RAF as a PTI and then specialised as a PJI. Still in 22 years later.
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Spent quite a bit of time at BZZ, was 2ic of the Movements School between 99 &02.

Lovely part of the world, although have to say Cartoontown has changed a lot.
 
I always wanted to be a lorry driver when I was a kid.
Instead I got a degree and became an electrical engineer in the steel industry. Above all I love fault finding and still get a buzz when a problem is cracked. With obscure faults on complex systems it's about developing scenarios to match the symptoms then testing them in the real world to find the fault. It's a good job that I get such personal satisfaction because there is seldom any thanks especially when working as a contractor.
Mechanical and production people can't get their heads around electrical breakdowns. I've lost count of the times I've been asked "how long will you be?" 🙄 and on one occasion "it's only 2 wires" ........ a colleague answered "yeah, but which fecking 2".
At times like those I think to myself ....... "should have been a lorry driver".🙂
 
NZBoro1 said:
Spent quite a bit of time at BZZ, was 2ic of the Movements School between 99 &02.

Lovely part of the world, although have to say Cartoontown has changed a lot.
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Nice, I didn’t get to Brize until 06. Loved it there, now up in Lincolnshire.

Cartoon town is getting bigger and bigger due to Lyneham moving over.
 
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