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What was/is your most fanciful ambition?

When I was younger I alays wanted to be a lead rock guitarest.
We are talking here of the days of Hendrix when lead guitarests were called "Rock Gods".
The reality is I can't play guitar and suffer Tinnitus from watching, taking photos of, too many rockbands.
....I miss the days when lead guitarests had more musical prominence(sp?) than now.

To try and be like my Mum.

To try and like my mum

Oh dear Rabid. You are probably like peas from a pod?

WG

no future rulers of the free world then?

What is this "grow up" of which you speak?

RF

I wanted to be a forensic pathologist r work in a morgue doing autopsys

I am still trying to grow up at fifty rock on I have had two careers both of which i sort of fell into...now it looks like I might have to find another one to get a job

I wanted to be a train driver, then wanted to be a famous rock drummer, but alas i became a drummer but never famous

First I wanted to go to sea, but then boring men told me to do boring things, on forms, in triplicate, so I left the Navy.

Then I wanted to hit bits of metal and make things, but the hours were long and the wages rotten.

Then I wanted to be a writer, so I became a Stage Manager

Then I gave up wanting to be anything and just took what life sloppped onto my plate.

Life has been one very interesting roller-coaster ride ever since. I've worked all over the UK, ran my own businesses, met loads of people and done things I didn't think people actually did. I meet my old schoolfriends and, whilst they might have had the career path they always wanted, I have more experience of life & the world than they can ever imagine.

When I were little, under 8 anyway, I wanted to be a museum curator. I even wrote to the curator of the natural history museum asing how to go about it.

They actually replied and encouraged me to study hard (as they would really) and sent me some of their educational dinosaur stuff (colouring book and poster). Which I think was cool. I still wouldn't mind having followed that route.

while i was growing up, i wanted to be a fireman.
this was in the days when women werent employed for such daring work.
i was 16 before i realised i couldnt be one.
now i could, but im too old

What was/is your most fanciful ambition?

When I grow up, I want to travel the world, teaching those I meet how bleak life can be, without color, humor, & a second chance to screw up!!
RedStarRising AKA 'TLPS': Bringing a touch of warmth & color to a cold, drab planet

i want to get my phd, win the nobel prize for literature, direct a major movie, and write sitcoms for the beeb. i will become horrendously rich and famous, and through my endorsments of various merchandise i will take over the world! mwhaha... no wait, j.k rowling has already done it

I wanted to be a Rock Star too, but life got in the way. Now I'm on the other side of it all, I've gone through the conforming thing and I've grown my hair long wear scruffy clothes to work and play in my band part-time, and I play when I want and where I want. Much better than having to do it with all the associated pressures.

My children ask me....When are you going to grow up?The answer is i'm not.I did try growing up,but i found it very dull.I have done most of the things i wanted to when i was younger.

Me too. I'm pleased I remembered how much fun music is, and /stopped/ trying to be a rockstar and started getting in to playing again.

I want to be free from these shackles of oppression when I grow up what I'd relaly really really like to be, if only for one day, or maybe an hour or two is sobre. just to see if its as awful as I remember it being

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