What Did You Want to Be When You Grew Up?

[count2infinity]

I wanted to be a doctor, but the surgeon variety, not the PhD variety.

That's tough sledding. I can't imagine having that lifestyle.

I think it mostly came out of my dad being a hunter. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world seeing the parts of animal bodies and whatnot. I loved biology and anatomy, but somewhere along the road I just decided that wasn't what I wanted to do.

[PensFanInDC]

I wanted to be a doctor, but the surgeon variety, not the PhD variety.

That's tough sledding. I can't imagine having that lifestyle.

Yeah. If I file something incorrectly and the FDA pops in for a surprise audit and finds it misfiled then we could be shut down. That's enough stress for me. I couldn't imagine the stress a surgeon has.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

A poll on "who here currently has the coolest job?" would be fun.

I'm a lobbyist

/thread

what do you do on a daily basis as a lobbyist?

[PensFanInDC]

I wanted to be a doctor, but the surgeon variety, not the PhD variety.

That's tough sledding. I can't imagine having that lifestyle.

I think it mostly came out of my dad being a hunter. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world seeing the parts of animal bodies and whatnot.

Have you considered serial killer?

[PensFanInDC]

A poll on "who here currently has the coolest job?" would be fun.

I'm a lobbyist

/thread

I believe Sarcastic is a working musician. Yeah.... Musician >>>>> Lobbyist

[shmenguin]

Barf

[npv708]

A poll on "who here currently has the coolest job?" would be fun.

I'm a lobbyist

/thread

what do you do on a daily basis as a lobbyist?

Lobby.

Spoiler:

Day-to-day depends, but usually includes meeting with Cong. Members and/or staff and drafting legislation and working to get it passed by Congress. For the political geek in me, it's an awesome job.

For reference:

[shmenguin]

Hockeynut has my current dream job but it sounds like a supreme pain in the ass, so I can't say I'm interested.

...and I'm not talented enough

[count2infinity]

I wanted to be a doctor, but the surgeon variety, not the PhD variety.

That's tough sledding. I can't imagine having that lifestyle.

I think it mostly came out of my dad being a hunter. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world seeing the parts of animal bodies and whatnot.

Have you considered serial killer?

Nope... the weird thing is, all of the horror stories, blood, guts everywhere they do nothing for me at all. I think I should have been an engineer of some sort. Just seeing the inner workings of things and how it all comes together so eloquently to complete a task is amazing to me. I think if I would have become a surgeon, I definitely would have viewed patients as machines that need to be fixed rather than humans.

[PensFanInDC]

Last January I smoked weed with the chief of staff of a congressman. Hmmm...I wonder if this has any blackmail potential...

[Crankshaft]

C'mon....

[dodint]

I wanted to be a doctor, but the surgeon variety, not the PhD variety.

That's tough sledding. I can't imagine having that lifestyle.

I think it mostly came out of my dad being a hunter. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world seeing the parts of animal bodies and whatnot.

Have you considered serial killer?

legit chuckle out loud on this one.

[PensFanInDC]

I wanted to be a doctor, but the surgeon variety, not the PhD variety.

That's tough sledding. I can't imagine having that lifestyle.

I think it mostly came out of my dad being a hunter. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world seeing the parts of animal bodies and whatnot.

Have you considered serial killer?

Nope... the weird thing is, all of the horror stories, blood, guts everywhere they do nothing for me at all. I think I should have been an engineer of some sort. Just seeing the inner workings of things and how it all comes together so eloquently to complete a task is amazing to me. I think if I would have become a surgeon, I definitely would have viewed patients as machines that need to be fixed rather than humans.

I would think you would have to in order to do your job properly. I feel that one would need to disassociate themselves with the person on the table and focus on the homosapien aspect.

[dodint]

Just seeing the inner workings of things and how it all comes together so eloquently to complete a task is amazing to me. I think if I would have become a surgeon, I definitely would have viewed patients as machines that need to be fixed rather than humans.

Become a gunsmith. That's what fascinates me about guns, how they work. I enjoy breaking them down and cleaning them about as much as I enjoy shooting them just because they're pure mechanical fun.

[count2infinity]

well... I'm sort of set right now in my career direction.

[dodint]

Amateur gunsmithing is a thing.

[FreeCandy44]

6-10 Baseball Player
12-18 Drummer for Metallica
19-34 Drummer for Pearl Jam

Im now an apprentice architectual drafter

[PensFanInDC]

Your career choices have declined with each passing age range

[CBear3]

Winner of the 100th running of the Indy 500.

Like I told tif, I've still got 15 months to get there from engineering desk jockey, lol.

[CBear3]

'Jaws' was on TV when I was maybe 3 years old. By the time I started kindergarten I could ID about a dozen shark species by their teeth and knew their scientific/Latin names. (Charcharodon carcharias, Galeocerdo cuvier, Prionace glauca, Lamna nasus, Isurus oxyrinchus, Carcharhinus leucas.... blah blah blah) I was forbidden from saying the word 'shark' or 'whale' for a month. About once a every other month, I'd borrow the book "Shark Frenzy" from the library. Ron and Valerie Taylor were my first childhood heroes outside my family. I wanted nothing more than to grow up being around sharks. To this day, the only thing on my bucket list is to free swim with a great white.

Which is why I'm a 41-year old paralegal.

You're waiting to make sure that's the last thing you need crossed off the bucket list, just in case, right?

[FreeCandy44]

Your career choices have declined with each passing age range

Im still better than Lars.

[Idoit40fans]

Always wanted to be a pro baseball player. Still do.

[llipgh2]

A poll on "who here currently has the coolest job?" would be fun.

I'm a lobbyist

/thread

Unless you wanted to be a lobbyist when you were growing up, no /thread.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

Your career choices have declined with each passing age range

Im still better than Lars.

Lars isn't even bad, he just needs a snare that doesn't sound like overproduced ****

[Idoit40fans]

That would have been a good contestent for which occupation here most deserves a punch in the face. All the lawyers would have breathed a sigh of relief.