Whaddaya wanna

[Creepy-pokeball]

I wanna have babies and sell the on ebay.

Honestly, what I wanted to be no longer exists. So now I do wholesale/commercial marketing and inventory. I like it I especially love telling sales managers what to do, lol.

[Gilly]

I wanna have babies and sell the on ebay.

Honestly, what I wanted to be no longer exists. So now I do wholesale/commercial marketing and inventory. I like it I especially love telling sales managers what to do, lol.

I knew it, I just knew it. You are a douchebag.

[Creepy-pokeball]

I knew it, I just knew it. You are a douchebag.

haha

[Saberstorm]

I wanna have babies and sell the on ebay.

Honestly, what I wanted to be no longer exists. So now I do wholesale/commercial marketing and inventory. I like it I especially love telling sales managers what to do, lol.

What did you want to be? A newspaper reporter?

[Creepy-pokeball]

What did you want to be? A newspaper reporter?

No. I wanted to be a Horticulturist for Research and Development (Ornamental).

[Saberstorm]

They do not exist anymore?

[Creepy-pokeball]

Not as they did, and what is left is nothing I dreamed of when I was younger. Also, most of them are huge Ag. companies that import Americans to overseas, such as in India. No thx.

[Park]

[Creepy-pokeball]

Is anyone else going to answer blackburry's question?

[Gilly]

Honestly, what I wanted to be no longer exists.

It took reading your post twice to realize that we are similar in this regard. I have always wanted to be a blacksmith's apprentice and own my own furnace, hammers, and anvils when I grow up. There are no longer any occupations where one person can make, start to finish, something that is so universally useful as metal weapons and tools were in the time of the local smithy.

This is actually why I work for a cell phone company, ironically; I saw how universally beneficial their products are, combined with how many people get screwed over by cell phone companies, and saw a chance to do something both interesting and useful that taught me multiple, broadly applicable skills, while saving my own ass from one more trap in the system.

Not to mention it pays darn well if you're a hustler.

[Creepy-pokeball]

It took reading your post twice to realize that we are similar in this regard. I have always wanted to be a blacksmith's apprentice and own my own furnace, hammers, and anvils when I grow up. There are no longer any occupations where one person can make, start to finish, something that is so universally useful as metal weapons and tools were in the time of the local smithy.

This is actually why I work for a cell phone company, ironically; I saw how universally beneficial their products are, combined with how many people get screwed over by cell phone companies, and saw a chance to do something both interesting and useful that taught me multiple, broadly applicable skills, while saving my own ass from one more trap in the system.

Not to mention it pays darn well if you're a hustler.

Yeah, we live in an age of dead dreams and limelights. Sad, but true. However, the beat goes on.

btw, I took 6 years of oxyacetylene welding w/ my best friend. It was completely pointless, but I loved it.

[Gilly]

Yeah, we live in an age of dead dreams and limelights. Sad, but true. However, the beat goes on.

Amen...there are few true crafts left, and, because of our hollow, over-generalized education system, even fewer people who wind up in the position to take honest pride in their work; the dissociation inherent in the combination of technological advancement and hyper-specialization makes us all irrelevant in the natural human scope of functioning, which leaves us all with a gaping hole where our desire for meaningful experience as a member of a personally tangible society once stood.

btw, I took 6 years of oxyacetylene welding w/ my best friend. It was completely pointless, but I loved it.

Yeah, I just love the idea of working with fire and metal, and exerting so much energy...it's so primal, and having a job that would actually make me a force to be reckoned with would be a huge bonus.

[Korpsy Knievel]

It took reading your post twice to realize that we are similar in this regard. I have always wanted to be a blacksmith's apprentice and own my own furnace, hammers, and anvils when I grow up. There are no longer any occupations where one person can make, start to finish, something that is so universally useful as metal weapons and tools were in the time of the local smithy.

Bullshit, I have a friend who is a professional blacksmith and makes a decent living for himself and his family. http://vanmadronemetalworks.com/

Now that I think of it I know three other dudes who have been blacksmiths, one of them for shits and giggles, and another guy who trained his son in, who continues smithing, before he retired a few years ago.

If you're really into it and have the space to make hot messes, you ought to look into the Gingery series of DIY metalworks books. http://www.lindsaybks.com/dgjp/djgbk/series/index.html

[Gilly]

Bullshit, I have a friend who is a professional blacksmith and makes a decent living for himself and his family. http://vanmadronemetalworks.com/

Now that I think of it I know three other dudes who have been blacksmiths, one of them for shits and giggles, and another guy who trained his son in, who continues smithing, before he retired a few years ago.

If you're really into it and have the space to make hot messes, you ought to look into the Gingery series of DIY metalworks books. http://www.lindsaybks.com/dgjp/djgbk/series/index.html

That is actually really fucking cool, but...it's just not the same. What I want out of being a blacksmith is more than just banging metal; it's a social role, an inheritance, a sense of occupational ethos that simply doesn't exist any more with the grandiose scope of our society and the degree of specialization that each job takes.

I am looking into being a teacher now, actually, because it's one of the only occupations that offers something resembling an individually identifiable significant role in society.

[Korpsy Knievel]

That is actually really fucking cool, but...it's just not the same. What I want out of being a blacksmith is more than just banging metal; it's a social role, an inheritance, a sense of occupational ethos that simply doesn't exist any more with the grandiose scope of our society and the degree of specialization that each job takes.

Except it does in how my friend came to learn his craft and how his practice of it is a concrete and living extension of his being. Don't be so flip, lil' dreamer.

[Gilly]

Except it does in how my friend came to learn his craft and how his practice of it is a concrete and living extension of his being. Don't be so flip, lil' dreamer.

He is very fortunate.

[Galen]

Back in high school or thereabout I wanted to design roller coasters for a living so badly. I was fascinated with the idea of them even before I stopped being terrified of riding one, (I did my first one on a dare by a friend, literally cried when it was over). I had seen things like Roller Coaster Tycoon in magazines and had wanted to get it ever since I was maybe 8 years old.

Eventually that faded out once my high school got a music department and I discovered that I may really be more of a passion that I initially gave it credit. I had been writing little songs in Fruity Loops since 15, but I didn't consider it to be more than a hobby until that point. Now I'm hopefully positioning myself to get some sort of steady work or employment in video game music. What's more, being at this music studio/training facility opened up my mind to worlds of sound design, post-production mixing, and general audio engineering that I can definitely see myself working in. Still, to score films or video games is my primary goal atm.

[munenori2]

It took reading your post twice to realize that we are similar in this regard. I have always wanted to be a blacksmith's apprentice and own my own furnace, hammers, and anvils when I grow up. There are no longer any occupations where one person can make, start to finish, something that is so universally useful as metal weapons and tools were in the time of the local smithy.

I know what you mean.

[Hot Scalding Gayser]

I wanna design and sell my own RPGs of course. =D first rpg i make i probably will sell for $5 a download.

[Red Villain]

A dictator.

[willekeurig]

I've always liked the idea of becoming a researcher of some sort, but then again it probably is much more about reading and writing stuff alone in the office than actually doing experiments or planning/sharing thoughts with colleagues. I get bored easily if I do the same thing all the time, but I wouldn't want to be a customer servant either, rush and too many people stress me. My ideal would be to work independently, but in a team. One thing I know for sure is I want an academic education. I'm a very theoretical mind and much better at creating scenarios and ideas and investigating things than doing something concrete. I'd love to find/do something that could change the world for better. Psychology/Social Psychology/Sociology/Philosophy have always been my strongest subjects in school, and they're also the things that truly motivate me the most. I'm now applying for a Social Psychology programme. Only 9 people will get in through attending the entrance exam, and there are hundreds of competitors so I probably won't make it, but it doesn't really even matter so much. I enjoy studying for the sake of it and not only because I would like to get in. Which is something I don't experience very often when studying.

[Kald]

Never wanted to be anything. Still don't.

[aixelsyd]

I wanna be a big name celebrity who appears on commercials except I would fund and appear exclusively on commercials that market off-brand products like Honey Nut Toasty O's, Fruity Hoops, and Dr. Dazzle. Just because.

That or become a sit-com writer or a video game composer, but I imagine if I wrote a sit-com, it would be a flop.