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In 6th grade, I wrote down I wanted to be a sniper... The guidance counselor asked me to clarify if I meant military sharpshooter, and I said "assassin".

It was all down hill from there.... I blame Antonio Banderas and Sylvester Stallone.

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17 minutes ago, Clu said:

In 6th grade, I wrote down I wanted to be a sniper... The guidance counselor asked me to clarify if I meant military sharpshooter, and I said "assassin".

It was all down hill from there.... I blame Antonio Banderas and Sylvester Stallone.

singer. like a pop star. you could still become an assassin

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Just now, Poof said:

singer. like a pop star. you could still become an assassin

That's true...

You could be like my back ops agent... The big dick sexy voice that lines up all of the logistics.

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I wanted to be an architect. I saw an episode of the Brady Bunch and the Dad was working on blueprints and I don’t know why, but I thought it was so cool. Anyway, I’m an engineer so close enough I guess. 

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7 minutes ago, ghostrek said:

join the military

You could still do that.... No still at all.

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I wanted to be an author. I have some great scifi ideas, but I'm too lazy to execute them. Plus, my writing skills could use improvement. I was reading novel stats, and over ninety percent of novels never make a profit anyway. Maybe one day, I'll self-publish a shitty kindle book, just for fun.

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2 minutes ago, bnmjy said:

I wanted to be an author. I have some great scifi ideas, but I'm too lazy to execute them. Plus, my writing skills could use improvement. I was reading novel stats, and over ninety percent of novels never make a profit anyway. Maybe one day, I'll self-publish a shitty kindle book, just for fun.

You'd be up against sponges.

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6 minutes ago, CAC said:

Happy.

See? That would have been a helluva Hallmark moment as a child

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28 minutes ago, Clu said:

See? That would have been a helluva Hallmark moment as a child

I'm still working on it...

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I was hoping to be dead, actually.  Watching my grandfather die of brain cancer when I was 10 and seeing what my mom went though while having to change his adult diapers was really formative for me.  I always hoped a meteor would explode me before I got to that point.

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3 minutes ago, enad said:

I was hoping to be dead, actually.  Watching my grandfather die of brain cancer when I was 10 and seeing what my mom went though while having to change his adult diapers was really formative for me.  I always hoped a meteor would explode me before I got to that point.

I never took you as an optimist.

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2 minutes ago, naraku360 said:

The exact opposite of what I am.

Just start doing the opposite of everything you've been doing .. duh.

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Just now, Clu said:

I never took you as an optimist.

I say "hope" knowing that most hope is in vain.  Still I'd like to go to hell before it's indistinguishable from arts and crafts time.

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as a toddler i wanted to be a hockey goalie and then drive the perimeter train at the magic kingdom, and as a young teen i wanted to make video games

senior year of high school i had no idea what i wanted to do but kind of thought i would go into education and be a history teacher, but my path in college didn't go in that direction so i ended up going to law school

at one point i thought maybe i could do politics, but there are too many character/personality requirements to being a politician that have absolutely nothing to do with lawmaking

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Just now, Admin_Raptorpat said:

as a toddler i wanted to be a hockey goalie and then drive the perimeter train at the magic kingdom, and as a young teen i wanted to make video games

senior year of high school i had no idea what i wanted to do but kind of thought i would go into education and be a history teacher, but my path in college didn't go in that direction so i ended up going to law school

at one point i thought maybe i could do politics, but there are too many character/personality requirements to being a politician that have absolutely nothing to do with lawmaking

I was thinking of this the other day.... No way my past would let me in public spotlight.

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Just now, enad said:

You have to become a celebrity first.  Then the trail of torn labias in your wake no longer matters.

This is like order of operations... But for sexy time.

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I'm of the mind legal counsel does all the actual lawmaking, except the politician gets all the credit

every once in a while you find a politician interested in the details, but that's few and far between

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The first thing was phlebotomist. Since I was like 5 I assume I asked a random person at a doctor's office what their job is and thought it sounded cool.

Paleontologist. Used to love dinosaurs, don't remember anything about all the stuff I had memorized about them.

Had a few random things I thought were cool (surgeon, chef, medical researcher) and would sort of learn about how to become one like I could compare the training and stuff, but stopped thinking about it in any significant way by the time I was like 10

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4 minutes ago, Admin_Raptorpat said:

I'm of the mind legal counsel does all the actual lawmaking, except the politician gets all the credit

every once in a while you find a politician interested in the details, but that's few and far between

Yeah the elected rep is basically the animal mascot for the ball team that's assembled around them.

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A pro wrestler, a preacher, the president, back to wrestler, an astronaut, a paleontologist, a pro wrestler again, an actor, a singer, a pro wrestler, just rich, a cartoonist, a comic artist, a video game designer, a writer, and then a pro wrestler.

Now that I am grown up, I'd like to be either not bankrupt or dead, a masseuse, or a pro wrestler.

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2 hours ago, enad said:

You have to become a celebrity first.  Then the trail of torn labias in your wake no longer matters.

you don't have to be a celebrity. u can have money instead of fame. and vice versa. but u must have one or the other bc those are the 2 things we worship

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