Dreams...Crashed and burnt.

mussa · January 31, 2006, 12:07:21 PM

i always wanted to be baseball player or football. i was an awesome athlete through high school, i just started hanging out with the wrong crowd in 8th grade. quit sports...started drugs. i still got straight A's in gym, even though i was a long-haired stoner who could compete with the jocks. i orginally wanted to be an architect, but bad math grades, drugs and art classes got me into painting, photography and art in general. ended up winning a bunch of awards in high school for art and then went on to become a graphic designer. i am pretty happy with my job, it has its ups and downs like any job. im not sure if it is something i want to do the rest of my life, but for now its a start. i do regret not playing sports in high school...i miss that so much.

Sgt PSN · January 31, 2006, 12:18:32 PM

As a little kid I had the typical aspirations....firefighter, police officer, etc. When I got a little older I wanted to be a baseball or basketball player. Then I found out I sucked at sports. Then when I was 14 I was at the KOP Plaza and saw a Marine walking around in his dress uniform. I think he was a reservist and was there for a Toys for Tots drive. Anywho, he was a PFC and uglier than a dog's ass but he had 4 or 5 hotties standing around him and I made my mind up that's what I wanted to do.

rjs246 · January 31, 2006, 12:32:29 PM

Ironically I spent most of my childhood wanting to be a baseball player. Was pretty good for a skinny kid, traveling teams, blah blah blah. Then I discovered lacrosse and realized that baseball was for girls. Since then I've more or less just wanted to be drunk and smart enough to earn a living without trying too hard.

Mission accomplished.

phattymatty · January 31, 2006, 12:45:08 PM

i thought being a gyno would be fun when i was young, until i realized that most women are there because they have cooch fungus.

doing annual checkups would still be fun though.

BigEd76 · January 31, 2006, 01:13:46 PM

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Phanatic · January 31, 2006, 01:13:54 PM

I wanted to be a musician, Pilot, Fireman and all that jazz. I still play at music on the side, and I joined the Navy to become aircrew, so at least I flew. Instead of sitting up front I had to sit in the back of the plane though. So that said I guess I accomplished something while accomplishing nothing. YAY!! Somehow I got into IT and it is a living.

Did I mention the free beer?

T_Section224 · January 31, 2006, 04:03:45 PM

Quote from: BigEd76 on January 31, 2006, 01:13:46 PM
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Yeti · January 31, 2006, 04:31:04 PM

Live in the woods.

BigEd76 · January 31, 2006, 04:34:42 PM

Quote from: T_Section224 on January 31, 2006, 04:03:45 PM(Martin Lawrence)

It's the part of his Saturday Night Live monologue that has been edited from all repeat airings, got him banned from NBC and almost got the SNL writers fired....

Geowhizzer · January 31, 2006, 09:27:23 PM

After my baseball career (and talent) proved woefully short, I thought of going into law. Then I realized that I basically hate lawyers- or at least the stereotype. Thought of going into youth ministry, then I remembered that I like to eat. So I decided to stick with the youth theme, combine it with my love for history, and go into teaching.

The pay is not great, but it's a living wage. I love the teaching part and the relating to kids part. The parents... well, there's a part of every job that is, shall we say, more challenging than others.

Feva · February 01, 2006, 07:58:52 AM

As a kid... I guess I was just like everyone else and wanted to be either a baseball or football player. I played both for years and was pretty damn good at both. The only sport that I never considered was basketball, my worst sport. (Insert obligatory black man-basketball joke here)

Once it hit home that football and baseball wasn't going to put a dime in my pocket, I figured the next logical step would be sportscasting. I could talk about sports for days and people always tell me that I have a great voice so I went in that direction. Went to school for Radio/TV Communications and got a job in TV production out of college. Once I got there, I got to see up close all of the "outside" shtein that on-air personalities have to deal with on a regular basis. That, on top of really growing to like the technical part of the industry... got to be a Technical Director here in Atlanta.

Sort of in line with what I set out to do....

MadMarchHare · February 01, 2006, 08:45:42 AM

Wingspan · February 01, 2006, 09:20:50 AM

Quote from: mussa on January 31, 2006, 12:07:21 PM
i always wanted to be baseball player or football. i was an awesome athlete through high school, i just started hanging out with the wrong crowd in 8th grade. quit sports...started drugs. i still got straight A's in gym, even though i was a long-haired stoner who could compete with the jocks. i orginally wanted to be an architect, but bad math grades, drugs and art classes got me into painting, photography and art in general. ended up winning a bunch of awards in high school for art and then went on to become a graphic designer. i am pretty happy with my job, it has its ups and downs like any job. im not sure if it is something i want to do the rest of my life, but for now its a start. i do regret not playing sports in high school...i miss that so much.

i'm kinda on the same path...or was on the same path, i never dabbled in the world of drugs for more than a few college parties, etc......except i was a math whiz growing up. and i hated math. so i was pushed for a while to go that way. but i was more interested in art. so i chose graphic design, and used my near perfect math SAT score to get into drexel's program.

and being a sports fan, i wanted to combine the two, so i wanted to be the guy who painted sports scenes for baseball and football cards. that never really happened, but i am a graphic designer now, and i enjoy it, i may be one of the few people that actually looks forward to their work most days. it took a few years to work around the field and get all of the monkey/production work lumps out of the way.

and i still paint on the side.