What do you want to be? [Archive]

Alastor

10-Mar-09, 06:29

When you get to the next stage of your life, what do you want to be?

This doesn't just apply to young people. Adults switch professions as well. I recently moved from PR to teaching for example. I have a friend that was in game design who is now a lawyer. I have another friend who is in banking but is getting ready to make a shift towards the music industry (potentially).

I have yet another friend who was a soldier and wanted to eventually become a physicist. He's now one of the world's leading authorities on human genomes.

Transitions in life are natural and almost no one stays in their chosen career for a lifetime any more, so this doesn't just apply to young people.

One of the things I always wanted to do I did eventually end up doing; being a teacher.

I'm curious about you. Tell me what you want to do when you enter the next phase of your life. Tell me why.

Death Ray Commander

10-Mar-09, 06:39

...He's now one of the world's leading authorities on human genomes.

He actually pronounces the "G" separately in "gnomes"? Who would have kenown?

I'd like to become a real girl some day. Being a fetus suspended in a glass cylinder is fun and all, but sometimes you just need to spread your legs and do something with yourself.

Alastor

10-Mar-09, 06:48

He actually pronounces the "G" separately in "gnomes"? Who would have kenown?

I'd like to become a real girl some day. Being a fetus suspended in a glass cylinder is fun and all, but sometimes you just need to spread your legs and do something with yourself.

:Busted:

I know who you are now.

The Gremlins

10-Mar-09, 08:12

You of all people. Thread moved. The correct icon has been placed, fuck-tard.

vanessa_alexis

10-Mar-09, 15:47

One day over the rainbow....

I want to be a surgeon. I haven't decided if I will be specialized or general but I know thats the direction I want to go in at this point. :)

Why did you choose the path of a teacher?

Invesco

12-May-09, 16:46

I would like to be a Pixar animator. Ohh... the sweetness.

Freet

12-May-09, 18:08

I want to be the next Hef.

Alastor

12-May-09, 18:38

Why did you choose the path of a teacher?

I love kids.

Dodecalypse

12-May-09, 18:44

I love kids.

No really.

Anyway, I'm aiming for an Aerospace Engineering job at NASA. High up there, but it's something I can see myself doing.

I'm not Goro this time

13-May-09, 12:19

I love kids.

That didn't sound wrong at all!

My childhood dream was to be a videogame designer, but I dropped that some time ago. Now I want to be a musician.

Hell, if Nickelback achieved it, the odds must be very high.

Diesel

13-May-09, 13:19

No really.

Anyway, I'm aiming for an Aerospace Engineering job at NASA. High up there, but it's something I can see myself doing.

Ha, I'd like to become an aerospace engineer as well.

MandozerTheGreat

17-May-09, 07:52

I want to rule a group of AIDS infested niggers as the next Col Kurtz and take over all of africa. Fuck Niggers

AiRsTrIkE

17-May-09, 08:07

I want to rule a group of AIDS infested niggers as the next Col Kurtz and take over all of africa. Fuck Niggers

That doesn't sound very hard. You should aspire to higher goals in life.

Disturbed

17-May-09, 20:58

join the US Marines as a helicopter mechanic

AppealDenied

20-May-09, 16:59

join the US Marines as a helicopter mechanic

Oh hey me too.

Merx. Just Merx this time

15-Jun-09, 20:31

I want to be the senior graphics designer for Pandemic. Not even sure if it's still open, but what the hell? I want it. I want it bad.

Bioengineer

29-Jul-09, 00:01

Cardiac Surgeon after med school after engineering

Fargo

29-Jul-09, 00:05

Now how the Hell did I not post here?

I'm aiming for Aerospace or Nanotechnology. I'm hoping to start my own business if possible to give me more freedom once I get the ball rolling.

Napoleon

02-Aug-09, 17:15

I started in the Army. Then I became a civilian cop on an Army base. Now I'm looking at administrative jobs in NY.

I have no clue. I've always wanted to be a lawyer, simply because people have told me I would be good at it. I really enjoy traffic collision investigations and traffic/transportation engineering. One of my dreams is to work for the NTSB.

BleachKing

18-Nov-09, 17:18

Well, I am going to be going to college next year, so I already have a pretty solid idea of what I would like to do as a future career.

I want to be a graphic designer, which would be more of the conceptual artist doing the art in gaming and the like. Further more, I wish to own my own business afterward that will design its own videogames. I aim high I suppose.

And if my artistic skills do not pull through for me, which I somewhat doubt since you can only get better after practice, I will use my intended minor in college: History.

Ocelot

18-Nov-09, 19:53

Always wanted to be a pathologist.

Bangaro

19-Nov-09, 15:55

Ocelot's bitch.

Dinobot

19-Nov-09, 16:20

Educator.

Taepodong-2

19-Nov-09, 17:10

Canadian Forces infantry.

Dinobot

19-Nov-09, 17:26

Canadian Forces infantry.

As a career or just while your young?

Taepodong-2

19-Nov-09, 17:30

As a career or just while your young?

I plan on being a career NCO unless something comes up where I can't be a soldier anymore. There isn't really much else I can imagine myself doing.

Dinobot

19-Nov-09, 17:33

Any reasons on why you want to stay a NCO?

Taepodong-2

19-Nov-09, 17:39

Any reasons on why you want to stay a NCO?

I don't think I would be able to handle commanding all the troops an officer has to command, especially not as soon as I start. I'd also rather get right into it after I finish high school instead of taking the extra time I need to get a degree so I can be an officer. Trying to become an officer is something I may consider later in my career though.

Argus Himp

19-Nov-09, 17:46

Ocelot's bitch.
But that's my position. Back the fuck off.

Vmag

19-Nov-09, 17:52

Any reasons on why you want to stay a NCO?

Because being bumped back down to Junior Enlisted looks horrible on a resume, I'd imagine :p

Are you saying then that he'd make bigger bucks getting out and then doing the exact same job as a contractor? I guess that's very true.

Argus Himp

19-Nov-09, 17:57

I wanna be the president when I grow up.

JUST KIDDANG!!!

Dinobot

19-Nov-09, 18:00

Are you saying then that he'd make bigger bucks getting out and then doing the exact same job as a contractor? I guess that's very true.

I'm very interested in how you concluded to that among the many different interpretations that could be derived from that post.

Vmag

19-Nov-09, 18:11

Well, you asked why he would want to remain an NCO.

There are only few reasons why someone would cease being an NCO:
-Getting out of the services;
-Getting hit so hard by disciplinary action that you're knocked down to the lowest of Lower Enlisted;
-Changing paygrades to Officer;

That final one is often referred to as "joining the Dark Side", so, to clear up obvious false, we won't even touch that one.

Now, between losing rank and leaving the service, leaving the service is the more profitable; more profitable choice is a good reason to stop being an NCO, and leaving the service and becoming a civilian DOES open up the possibility of becoming a contractor.

It's the same basic work, without having to worry about military duties, AND you get payed a ton more!

Dinobot

20-Nov-09, 08:35

Actually, I was leaning towards the "Dark Side" one, but good guessing.

Kevin

20-Nov-09, 20:34

I want to be a political journalist, preferably about the war reporter if it's still going on.

And that being the kind of journalist who writes, not the reporters who are on camera. That's not my thing.

MerX Back 91

14-Jan-10, 20:03

Well... I once wanted to be @ Pandemic, but, OMGWTFHAX PANDY ASPLODED happened one day, sooooo.....

I have a programmer friend. We and a couple other people are making an indie game studio. We're in the process of making a 2d platformer with crayon graphics, and a stickman for a main character.

We have a few other projects, including another game, a web series, and a couple of other things..

Kane

26-Jan-10, 16:25

Well even since like middle school I've wanted to be a C.S.I or more exactly a Forensics Evidence Technition, which is the CSI that goes to the crime scene and bags the evidence and such, not the one that is in the lab all day.

Either that or a Criminal Psychologists. Not a therapists but the type of person that see's why a person decided to kill an entire family or something like that.

Vmag

26-Jan-10, 17:13

I think I'll do tanks for a year or two next. One, just so I can flaunt about a tank driving license; two, to add another notch to becoming more Mercs-like.

Taepodong-2

26-Jan-10, 17:32

I think I'll do tanks for a year or two next. One, just so I can flaunt about a tank driving license; two, to add another notch to becoming more Mercs-like.

If I join the army reserve when I'm 16 I'll be armour too because that's what the reserve unit in my town is. Not tanks though, just armoured reconnaissance. Of course in the reserve forces armoured reconnaissance means "Drive around in a jeep with a mounted machine gun."

Cheeky

26-Jan-10, 19:51

A script-writer, preferably for film or TV - heck, even video games if the opportunity was to arrive. I've been generating script ideas and starting to produce 'formal' scripts for well over a year now, so hopefully one of them has the appeal to trigger my career in that field of work.

MerX Back 91

26-Jan-10, 20:03

President Camacho

27-Jan-10, 01:49

i think the only notable career mentioned in this thread has been reporter.
i also had aspirations to be a reporter until i discovered my crippling illiteracy. askrhfe daofn laybesfutg ljaygyo alifeug7o aeiulfh auilegfiyg.

right now i'm studying to become an electrical engineer.
of course i would like to, be a pro race driver, get paid for playing the guitar, make loads of money playing the stock market, or bank heists.

Taepodong-2

27-Jan-10, 09:10

i think the only notable career mentioned in this thread has been reporter.

Well sorry for not being interested in civilian careers.

President Camacho

27-Jan-10, 12:27

Well sorry for not being interested in civilian careers.

apology accepted, i have a hard time believing anyone is joining the military for the right reasons.

especially in the US, we go through a lot of work to make sure the truth about the military is glazed over, my brother is in the army, he says it sucks dick. The commercials about the army? make it look like its fucking awesome all the time.

Cheeky

27-Jan-10, 20:09

I'm not quite sure how being a reporter is 'notable' mind you. Nowadays it's like the least credible thing you can do.

MerX Back 91

30-Jan-10, 09:35

I'm not quite sure how being a reporter is 'notable' mind you. Nowadays it's like the least credible thing you can do.

So true.

AiRsTrIkE

30-Jan-10, 09:41

I've always wanted to be a motorcycle.

President Camacho

30-Jan-10, 12:51

I've always wanted to be a motorcycle.

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AiRsTrIkE

30-Jan-10, 13:05

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Exactly!

Freet

31-Jan-10, 03:37

vroom vroom! waah brrp waaaaaah brrp WAAAAAH!

Funny, those are the exact sounds I make after a long night of beer and burritos.

Vmag

31-Jan-10, 07:11

I was so hoping you'd make it a classy joke, like, "after a long night of Your Mom". :(

Freet

31-Jan-10, 11:37

I was so hoping you'd make it a classy joke, like, "after a long night of Your Mom". :(

Classy? Here????

Ummm...yeah, that'll happen. :/

MerX Back 91

01-Feb-10, 12:43

vroom vroom! waah brrp waaaaaah brrp WAAAAAH!
Perfect.

Mantis

03-Feb-10, 16:59

I plan on most likely enlisting in the Canadian Armed Forces, and hopefully becoming a weapons tech or vehicle crewman. After that, I'll most likely get into Law Enforcement.

CCCP

03-Feb-10, 18:39

I decided I either want to teach, be in the CIA, FBI or NSA, or be a historian.

zakmac12

03-Feb-10, 19:02

I plan on going to college and either majoring in Political Science and Constitutional Law or in Human Biology and Anthropology.

Then, depending on my choices, I want to go to Law School or Med School and either become an attorney or some specialization of surgeon.

I've considered doing a Law/Med program...but that's probably REALLY expensive.

Kane

03-Feb-10, 19:52

zakmac12

03-Feb-10, 20:11

12 years of college? That'd be horrible.

It's usually only 6 years I believe.
In addition to your original 4.
So 10, which wouldn't be all that terrible, because I'd probably be going 8 anyways for just one of them, just go another two and possibly double my possible income, not a terrible idea in my book.

Unless of course Medicine in America becomes socialist...then I'm probably going with law or something like that.
I could always work for the German-American embassies...

Vmag

04-Feb-10, 02:22

Unless of course Medicine in America becomes socialist...

For crying out loud, standardized health care is not socialist - we in the military have been doing it for YEARS with TriCare.

Then again, the military is, ironically, probably the single largest socialist/communistic organization in the US.

MerX Back 91

06-Feb-10, 08:02

What would the military be if not socialist?

wiiper77

06-Feb-10, 17:38

I'd like to be a dictator of some random third world nation >_>

gotta dream big, eh?

Jesse the Great Tsar

06-Feb-10, 21:51

For crying out loud, standardized health care is not socialist - we in the military have been doing it for YEARS with TriCare.

Then again, the military is, ironically, probably the single largest socialist/communistic organization in the US.

Its government run! Of course it is socialist! Government run healthcare is socialist. You connecting the dots here?

zakmac12

07-Feb-10, 15:59

Its government run! Of course it is socialist! Government run healthcare is socialist. You connecting the dots here?

Not necessarily.

Government run does not = socialist

Government run = statist

Statism and socialism are two completely different things, I get somewhat irritated when people call President Obama socialist, because he isn't, he's statist.

Jesse the Great Tsar

07-Feb-10, 17:40

Not necessarily.

Government run does not = socialist

Government run = statist

Statism and socialism are two completely different things, I get somewhat irritated when people call President Obama socialist, because he isn't, he's statist.

Hes a progressive. They are the true faces of evil. By the way, another term for statism is state socialism.

zakmac12

07-Feb-10, 17:56

Hes a progressive. They are the true faces of evil. By the way, another term for statism is state socialism.

I will agree that Progressivism, at least American Progressivism, the kind started by Teddy Roosevelt, is inherently evil.
I must disagree with your second contention though.

My rebuttal is simple, Satism ≠ Socialism

Socialism - a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.

Statism - the principle or policy of concentrating extensive economic, political, and related controls in the state at the cost of individual liberty.

If, you know, Goldman-Sachs and GM and such are the hotbeds of Socialism in America, then, it's a fairly successful system if I don't say so myself, however, they are not. In America, we simply see state intervention in the market, and the state isn't an example of "The community as a whole" in America anywho, the state is it's own class, over top of the community in America, and has been for about the last 20 years or so, Administration after Administration.

Satism ≠ Socialism, just as Pro-Market ≠ Pro-Business

Kevin Carson, an analyst for the Center for a Stateless Society (Though they are a bit extreme in my book, I will quote them) recently stated it about the same as I would:

...Government interventionism does not equate to “socialism,” any more than being in favor of free markets implies a “pro-business” stance. Business interests are some of the biggest supporters of state intervention in the economy, and some of its biggest beneficiaries.

Jesse the Great Tsar

07-Feb-10, 17:58

I will agree that Progressivism, at least American Progressivism, the kind started by Teddy Roosevelt, is inherently evil.
I must disagree with your second contention though.

My rebuttal is simple, Satism ≠ Socialism

If, you know, Goldman-Sachs and GM and such are the hotbeds of Socialism in America, then, it's a fairly successful system if I don't say so myself, however, they are not. In America, we simply see state intervention in the market, and the state isn't an example of "The community as a whole" in America anywho, the state is it's own class, over top of the community in America, and has been for about the last 20 years or so, Administration after Administration.

Satism ≠ Socialism, just as Pro-Market ≠ Pro-Business

Kevin Carson, an analyst for the Center for a Stateless Society (Though they are a bit extreme in my book, I will quote them) recently stated it about the same as I would:

Dont look at me, I read Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statism