Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > What did you want to be as a kid?

[rcgbob44]

A lingerie fitter!

[lane748]

I wanted to be a policeman- finally managed it after all this time!

[AK]

I wanted to be a truck driver (did class 1 & drove horses around the continents for a few years)

Wanted to be a vet, but the truck bit edged ahead, but got vet nurse quals & still help out in equine major surgery occasionally.

also....... wanted to be prime minister, but not much chance with my diplomacy skills so far

also wanted to win the grand national - so did national hunt as amateur (part funded by truck driving in my 20's) - and managed to at least ride the Mildmay course at Liverpool, coming a respectable 3rd in a novice chase



And now? - to earn shed loads of dough in the next few months, to enable me to have the time & money to ride my bike across Europe & onwards, Michael Palin style

C
ps: I didnt want to be a 'waffler, I just turned into one

[kwikbitch]

This was a good question...So many of you actually are pretty close to what you wanted to do as a kid! Glynn is VERY right though...
You've got to be happy doing it...and its not about money.
I love my job...I always knew I would.

[MARTIN H]

Fighter pilot until I was about 10 or so then Elvis died and they put all his films on tv that xmas and from then on I wanted to be a rockstar!

[Gizmo]

I'm still trying to work out what I'm going to be when I grow up, Until then I'll keep playing with mountain bikes , I'm sure I'll work it out eventually

[Twinfan]

I never knew what I wanted to be, just 'something to do with maths'. I drifted into computer programming and that's where I am now (Application Developer). So I'm kind of doing what I wanted!

Trouble is, I wish I'd done engineering. I'd love to be a data logger for a race team...

[phillc]

As a kid I wanted to be a pilot. Not in the airforce or a commercial airline. I actually wanted to fly C130 aid shipments in and out of remote places in Africa. (Think the movie Air America with Mel Gibson, but humanitarian aid rather than guns :-) )

So, at 18 I actually went and got my private pilot's licence. Have logged about 110 hours or so.

However, then I went and travelled a while (a year in South Africa), discovered that beer ate up most of my money, couldn't afford to fly anymore. Then got into bikes and that's where all my money went.

Did an arts degree at Uni, thought I wanted to be a journalist. Ended up as an IT business analyst/product manager.

[Steve M]

A cycle racer - Tour De France etc. It never happened though.

[Jools]

Never did know what I wanted to do as a kid. When I was about seven I remember saying to my best friend that I wanted to be very rich, and have a huge house with lots of naked ladies walking about in it.

I was always interested in technical stuff, but not practical enough to follow an engineering trade, or clever enough at Maths to be a chartered engineer or anything like that. In fact I was always told that I was too arty for technical stuf and too technical to be arty - work that one out.

I did start playing double bass at 14 and electric bass after that (I was always a bassist, never a frustrated guitar player), and got to be pretty damn good in my late teens, early twenties. I followed the 'rock and roll' dream and got right to the verge of a recording contract when the band split due to some people in it getting cold feet about signing. I guess my dreams of that big house with lots of naked ladies went up in the same puff of smoke as my rock star aspirations. Still play now, but nowhere near as well as I did then.

Ended up like a lot of people drifting into IT and been there ever since.

Thinking back, if I had my time again, I would really love to have been studious enough to be an architect. I'm fascinated with buildings and I think it would have been a good choice for someone caught between technical and artistic interests