What I Wanna Be When I Grow Up

I wanted to be a political theorist, which usually entails teaching it in a university setting. The social sciences and humanities are flooded with PhDs who can't get anything above an adjunct professor position with part-time hours and little to no benefits.

 

Video game designer would have been my ideal career, but I have always been fascinated with systems, social and technical. Thought about going to Carnegie Mellon for their graduate program in game design, but decided it would be better to focus on getting my engineering license, given my background.

 

I wanted to be Nadia soo bad too

 

I remember Nadia Komeneche(Or Comaneche) anyway, she is married to Olympic gymnast Bart Conner. I met him years ago. He was a nice guy.

 

Batman. I want to be Batman when I grow up

 

The first i remeber was wanting to become an astrophysicist, or an archaeologist, or an marine biologist. Then a fighter pilot. Then I became wild child and didn't wanna do nothing. then in lost my way from my doing nothing path. Smh. Lol

 

We've all been there. I once said that if I was not either a musician, actor or writer, I would rather be dead. I'll never forget a conversation I had with an artist in the shopping mall I hung out in. He asked me, " What do you wanna do with your life?"
I said," Well..."
He interjected by saying, "Don't tell me that you wanna fuck all the girls. What do you wanna do with your life? What do you wanna be?"
I said," I want to be an actor."
"An actor, huh?"
"Yes, an actor."
"Okay, I'll introduce you to my brother. He worked on the set of the film East Of Eden. You tell him you wanna be an actor, and he's gonna laugh in your face."
"Why?"
"What do you have to offer?"
"Well, I have wanted this all my life and I can act and I look good."
"Is that all?"
"I guess."
"You gotta have a lot more than good looks and the dream to act. A lot more. You may not understand it now. But you will later."

When I took drama in college, the artist's words were not only prophetic, but true. I had to learn all over again and realized that I had to be extremely lucky when it came to the field of acting. Lucky and disciplined.

 

I wanted to be a vet. Then a teacher. Then a nurse.
Then I got a bit older and realized that they presented too many barriers for me, and wanted to be a writer.
Skip forward to high school, I was interested in being a MRI technician (There's less than 10 qualified technicians in the province as far as I know....). When I graduated, my first major was biology.

Then, my sign language skills were too weak to follow the biology lectures, and I changed my major to social work.

Then, I found out it would be hell trying to get my degree recognized back in Canada, so I switched to sociology. I had no idea what the hell I could do with it, but I needed a major.

My last year, I started becoming more interested in business (marketing). Taught myself a lot of that, while I was barely reading the books I needed for my real classes.

That paid off, because the job I have now relies more on what I taught myself, than what I ever learned in 5 years of college.


...I still want to be a nurse though. Maybe someday, if the program ever becomes accessible.

 

Which one? Adam West's Caped Crusader(I'd like to catch Julie Newmar's Catwoman anyday or night), Michael Keaton's, Val Kilmer's, George Clooney's or Christian Bale's Dark Knight? Or All of the above?

 

I hope you achieve that goal lol ... I'd love a black batman!!

What I wanted to do:
Air Force - asthma squashed that
Cop - asthma squashed that too
Game Designer - I can't draw lol and I hate coding
Computer Forensics - I'm finishing that degree next year so at least I am doing one of them lol

 

You could've gotten a waiver fir your asthma. At least you can today.

 

I'm old lol you couldn't back then. I passed my ASVAB so well I had all branches calling me but the minute they heard asthma they said nevermind.

 

omg no. I was married to one for 12 years, the most thankless job with way too much idiot-exposure. So not worth the 2 cents they get paid an hour. Not to mention you have to have a 4 year undergraduate degree in most urban police services as well as with the RCMP, unless of course you are a pregnant ethnic minority, then you just have to be breathing. No joke, affirmative action at its finest.

I digress....

 

You think being a minority makes it easier to be a cop? Lmao you doing stand up now?

 

Actor

After graduation,I'm going to move to Los Angeles and pursue it full time in about a year or so.

 

I didn't say ethnic minorities have it easier BEING a cop, just BECOMING one (at least in Canada). Fact, and I know this first hand.

 

It's Canada, your criminals are pussies anyway.

 

I wanted a job like Adam Richman's (before I knew of him of course) where I could travel around and get paid to eat

 

Being a minority makes absolutely makes nothing easier because anything you get even if it's based on merit gets scrutinized as if affirmative action had a role. And let's keep it 100 if that were the case you'd have a mostly minority police force and I've been to both Toronto and Windsor many many times and have don't see that reflected so there goes that theory.