What Did You Want to be When You Grow Up?

Started by Sportsdude, Aug 28 07 01:24

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Sportsdude

 What Do You Want to be When You Grow Up?

Toronto, August 28, 2007 – It's the age-old question and one that many Canadian adults might want to ask themselves as the back-to-school season is upon us: what do you want to be when you grow up? For most, childhood dreams and ambitions haven't come true. According to the Workopolis "When I Grow Up" poll, 82 per cent of Canadian adults aren't doing what they dreamt of when they were younger.

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I wanted to do something with politics and if that didn't work out, something that involved maps and building.

   
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

49er

over the years, each summer, I have high school and university interns working for me who were interested in becoming engineers.  Some college interns even worked yearlong under a cooperative plan while still in school.  I am always amazed by how focus they were in achieving their career goals, especially the ones who were still in high school.

Sportsdude

that's good, we need more engineers.  
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Lil Me

I could never decide what I wanted to be.  Heck, I'm middle aged and still undecided.
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

P.C.

Lil Me ?  Don't make me come over there.

  YOU are NOT middle aged.  (Why I oughta)

  When I was young, I always wanted to be a 'grown-up' when I grew up.  I'm still working on it....and I think I'm making progress, but only time will tell.  I won't quit though.....I think I'm going to have this down pat within the next few years.  A good friend summed it up by saying, "thank god I've managed to stay immature".  These are my thoughts too.

  *I think young people today are more 'in tune' with their future goals.  Or maybe it's just that the goals have changed.  When I was a kid, we wanted to be things like ballerinas, or cowboys.....GAWWWD.....I just realized I might be old.   [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/a090.gif" border=0]
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Lise

I wanted to be a pornstar. Still working on becoming the "Hot Housewife from Vancouver".
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Bill Cosby.

lazy Marik

World Rally Championship driver!! Then I thought it over.. it is too dangerous :(
pro soccer player... there are too many people playing soccer.. it is almost impossible :(
 

lazy Marik

oops missed reading your post, Lise
"Hot Housewife from Vancouver"?   rawr!  ;)
 

Michel

 I wanted to be a pornstar. Still working on becoming the "Hot Housewife from Vancouver".

  LOL Lise you,re amazing ! ah ah !

   

Gopher

I never knew, and I still don't.

  Just to be as happy as possible, I suppose  
A fool's paradise is better than none.

TehBorken

 P.C. wrote:
GAWWWD.....I just realized I might be old.   [img style="cursor: pointer;" onclick="url(this.src);" src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/a090.gif[/img]
We're not old. We're "Loaded with Life Experience". I don't care that my birth certificate came on a clay tablet, I'm not old.

Hey, you kids- get off of my lawn!!
 
The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.

P.C.

Hey, you kids- get off of my lawn!!  <<<rofl

  [FONT size=5]DAD [/FONT]!!!!  Is that YOU ????    
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Michel

Me it's that part that makes me laugh :

  We're not old. We're "Loaded with Life Experience". I don't care that my birth certificate came on a clay tablet, I'm not old.