Are You What You Wanted To be

I have achieved what I discovered I wanted.
A lifestyle where I no longer need a watch and if I wear one it only needs an hour hand.
 
As a boy of about twelve, I remember saying to my mother, "Mama!" I said, "Look here, Mama. Dash it all, but I wish to be sexually attractive to the ladies when I'm grown up. Wouldn't it be utterly beastly to be celibate, like Father?"
 
guv said:
As a boy of about twelve, I remember saying to my mother, "Mama!" I said, "Look here, Mama. Dash it all, but I wish to be sexually attractive to the ladies when I'm grown up. Wouldn't it be utterly beastly to be celibate, like Father?"
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Utterly beastly indeed. Did mama give you a hearty breakfast of kedgiree and kippers and then instruct the man-servant to issue you with a damn good flogging and an ice-water bath?
 
PaleBlue said:
guv said:
As a boy of about twelve, I remember saying to my mother, "Mama!" I said, "Look here, Mama. Dash it all, but I wish to be sexually attractive to the ladies when I'm grown up. Wouldn't it be utterly beastly to be celibate, like Father?"
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Utterly beastly indeed. Did mama give you a hearty breakfast of kedgiree and kippers and then instruct the man-servant to issue you with a damn good flogging and an ice-water bath?
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Of course. And those baths were utterly bloody. Mama put a stop to the floggings, though, as she didn't like to see me smile.

Meanwhile, in his bath chair, Pappa was smoking his pipe and giving instructions to my brother, Septimus, on how to talk to those dashed Indians once he got to Bangalore.
 
i always thought growing up, i would be an engineer of some sorts...my father is an electrician and when i was a kid i would spend hours taking apart the xmas pressies to see how things worked
i sort of fell into my career by chance, i was originally scheduled for officer training with the royal engineers, however, after a short spell came to the conclusion it wasnt for me....i managed to get onto a YTS scheme as a draughtsman (tech drawing) with a local company and from there my career sort of took its own course....

i have a good career with top pay and benfits, however, in the last few years i have become more disillusioned with my job and even bored to some extent. I have found myself thinking back to what i could/should have done. In the last few months i have been seriously considering changing career totally....i would really like to be a forensics techy but the fact i'm supporting my family makes it near impossible for me to go back to uni for any great length of time at this stage in my life.

i remember my first year at tameside college, in a class full of know it all teenagers, all more content with pissin about rather than working. There was a middle aged guy sat at the back of our class, he kept himself to one side and wanted to get on with learning. I always remember one day he got up in the middle of the lesson and sat next to a few of us and asked if someone could help him with his maths...after being subjected to much piss takin by the lads around me a couple of us decided to help him out. For the guy to swallow his pride and approach a group of teens to ask for help, knowing that he would be almost certainly ridiculed, took a great amount of courage. We got talking to him over that first year and it turned out he was a postman, who always wanted to be an engineer, but his life took on a different course. He had gone through a divorce and eventually decided at 45 year old, to study to be an engineer. He realised he would only have a short career out of it by the time he qualified, but he carried on regardless because he wanted it. He eventually qualified as an engineer and no doubt went on to live out his dream over the last 20 years or so. I look back on the day i met that guy as a pivotal point in my career and whenever i have gotten pissed off, stressed or down with my lot, i think back and take great strength from what i learnt from him.

1) It is never too late to chase your dream
2) Do not let a career get in the way of happiness
and finally
3) If you need help, ask. Asking for help is not a sign of failure, it is a sign of strength. Help can be found in the most unlikely of places sometimes.

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anyway, waffle over, just thought i would share those snippets ;)
 
yeah stuck in the house with 4 mad kids and a nagging wife,could life get any better!
 
when i was a kid i wanted to be a fireman and drive around in big red trucks and put out fires and maybe save lives and i have been genuinely blessed and been able to do that forthe last 24 years and every day of it has been a pleasure
 
I seem to be doing things backwards.

Dossed about and played footy all day as a nipper and continued doing it til leaving school at 15. Then i dossed about, dance and drank before leaving Blighty to doss around in other countries where it was much warmer.

These days i'm a simple family man with a nice couch.
 
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