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What did you want to be / do when you grew up?
May 23, 2016 at 9:38 pm
(May 23, 2016 at 7:26 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (May 23, 2016 at 6:13 pm)KUSA Wrote: I was in the Navy stationed on the Washington. It was amazing watching the F14s take off and land. Absolutely amazing.
I lived about a year right off NAS Memphis in Millington TN. Watching them shoot touch-and-gos for prelim carrier quals, wings wide open, afterburners open wider, was indeed amazing. Props to anyone strapping a plane to their ass and taking their chances.
I went to avionics school there in the 90s. Dang I'm old now.
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RE: What did you want to be / do when you grew up?
May 23, 2016 at 9:38 pm
(May 23, 2016 at 9:26 pm)Bella Morte Wrote: (May 23, 2016 at 9:23 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Cop or infantry.
Oh well.
I still kinda do.
Not allowed.
Life's a bitch, right? 
Where do you live? Plenty of female cops here. Not infantry, yet, but it's coming.
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RE: What did you want to be / do when you grew up?
May 23, 2016 at 9:38 pm
(May 23, 2016 at 9:26 pm)Bella Morte Wrote: (May 23, 2016 at 9:23 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Cop or infantry.
Oh well.
I still kinda do.
Not allowed.
Life's a bitch, right?
As soon as I heard women weren't allowed in combat roles it was, "Fuck you, army!"
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
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RE: What did you want to be / do when you grew up?
May 23, 2016 at 10:40 pm
(May 23, 2016 at 9:38 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: (May 23, 2016 at 9:26 pm)Bella Morte Wrote: I still kinda do.
Not allowed.
Life's a bitch, right?
As soon as I heard women weren't allowed in combat roles it was, "Fuck you, army!"
Hence, crazy lady with a scalpel. 
Mine sucks. I wanted to be a fucken preacher. That's all I ever saw at home and in our little floating bubble traveling around wherever my parents started their next church. Sigh.
Instead I work in a cubicle all day and come home to a little thing called Af at night. Hallelujah!
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RE: What did you want to be / do when you grew up?
May 23, 2016 at 10:44 pm
I wanted to be a teacher, then realized I hate kids.
Then I wanted to be a doctor, but volunteering in a nursing home for six months made me realize I don't want to do that either.
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RE: What did you want to be / do when you grew up?
May 23, 2016 at 10:57 pm
In high school, I wanted to be a teacher as well, either at university or college (public). But eventually I realised that I don't like to lecture, and the only thing that appealed to me was grading papers and other things and making the syllabi/grading criteria (latter of which might not be my job, anyhow, but the head's).
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RE: What did you want to be / do when you grew up?
May 23, 2016 at 11:02 pm
I wanted to be a drug lord but the competition was a bit rough.
Thief and assassin for hire. Member in good standing of the Rogues Guild.
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RE: What did you want to be / do when you grew up?
May 24, 2016 at 1:27 am
(May 23, 2016 at 9:38 pm)KUSA Wrote: (May 23, 2016 at 7:26 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I lived about a year right off NAS Memphis in Millington TN. Watching them shoot touch-and-gos for prelim carrier quals, wings wide open, afterburners open wider, was indeed amazing. Props to anyone strapping a plane to their ass and taking their chances.
I went to avionics school there in the 90s. Dang I'm old now.
Not as old as me ... it was my freshman year at STIM ... 1985.
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RE: What did you want to be / do when you grew up?
May 24, 2016 at 2:04 am
(May 23, 2016 at 10:44 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: I wanted to be a teacher, then realized I hate kids.
That's very commendable. Some don't realize that on time, I think we've all seen examples...
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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RE: What did you want to be / do when you grew up?
May 24, 2016 at 2:11 am
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First I wanted it to be something with trains (I'm still to this day boring my wife with the compelling features of the 101 locomotive whenever we see one).
Then I wanted to be a palaeontologist (the dinosaur is strong in this one), and that was before Jurassic Park came out #DinoHipster
Then I wanted to become an electroacoustic engineer or electrical engineer. Then I wanted to become a computer scientist and work on AI. Then I wanted to become a physicist or mathematician. Finally I became a theoretical physicist. And a science writer/author. Who knows what I'll become next.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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