Careers you dreamed about doing but were too afraid to try?

Started by Martinus, October 09, 2009, 03:17:10 PM

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Martinus

October 09, 2009, 03:17:10 PM
Ok, so is there any career you thought/dreamed of following but were too afraid to try it? It doesn't need to be a fear of danger - it could be just that you fear it is financially risky, hard to get into or you do not have the right education for.

For me, it is pretty mundane/weird: either a food critic or a restaurant/club owner. :P

The Brain

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October 09, 2009, 03:18:56 PM
None.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Eddie Teach

#2
October 09, 2009, 03:20:50 PM
None. There are a few I wanted to do but wasn't good enough, like professional basketball player.  :lol:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Tonitrus

#3
October 09, 2009, 03:23:58 PM
National Park Ranger.

Not so much fear though, as that it's likely too late, age-wise.  I guess that could be "fear" in a roundabout way.

Rasputin

#4
October 09, 2009, 03:24:35 PM
Black panther radical. :(
Who is John Galt?

Josquius

#5
October 09, 2009, 03:26:16 PM
Music,
It would have been so cool to be one of those idiots in a indie band driving round the country in a crappy van...but it would have done nothing for my life. I'm not a awesome guitarist. I know that. And only, what? 1% of bands ever get ANYWHERE let alone to mega star status.
So I kept it as a hobby and followed a normal life into university.
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Savonarola

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October 09, 2009, 03:31:37 PM
Uncle Sam once offered me the opportunity to get my PhD and then design telecom equipment for the Air Force.  It would have been a cut in pay, and I would have had to move to Dayton, but there are days I wish I had taken him up on the offer.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Alatriste

#7
October 09, 2009, 03:51:09 PM
When I was a teen I seriously considered becoming an Army officer. But my eyesight soon became bad enough to make impossible such a thing. Years later I considered creating my own business, but I soon discovered profits didn't make me really happy, while any loss made me intensely unhappy!

Jaron

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October 09, 2009, 04:04:02 PM
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katmai

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October 09, 2009, 04:12:41 PM
Quote from: Jaron on October 09, 2009, 04:04:02 PM
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you were one, it failed horribly remember?
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Jaron

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October 09, 2009, 04:23:06 PM
Quote from: katmai on October 09, 2009, 04:12:41 PM
Quote from: Jaron on October 09, 2009, 04:04:02 PM
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Valmy

#11
October 09, 2009, 04:23:50 PM
A NCO in Napoleon's Imperial Guard.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Fireblade

#12
October 09, 2009, 04:25:43 PM
King of a small Caribbean country.

Ed Anger

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October 09, 2009, 04:36:13 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on October 09, 2009, 03:31:37 PM
Uncle Sam once offered me the opportunity to get my PhD and then design telecom equipment for the Air Force.  It would have been a cut in pay, and I would have had to move to Dayton, but there are days I wish I had taken him up on the offer.

Still better than Detroit. Dayton's government functions. Sorta.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Razgovory

#14
October 09, 2009, 04:36:22 PM
Commissar.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017
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