Childhood AmbitionsHoratioFellatio writes:
"At the tender age of 13, my little hairless clockweights squirted their first dose of testosterone into my blood stream. The result was a mental alarm clock shouting, 'I NEED TO LOOK AT GIRL'S FANNIES.' I reasoned that if I became a Gynaecologist, I'd get to look at fannies all day.
"It was only when I reached the age of about 16 and learnt about STD's and yeast infections that I realised I'd only ever get to see diseased ones."
Tell us about your childhood career ambitions and the moment at which your aspirations crumbled into a pile of broken dreams.
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chthonic, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 12:02)
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From about age 5, I decided I wanted to be a teacher.
Not just any teacher, mind.
Nah, I wanted to be Anne of Green Gables (after she grows up & becomes a teacher, but before she marries Gilbert & has a shedload of kids).
I then went through a phase where I decided I wanted to be Jimmy Barnes (Aussie rocker).
Kinda impossible, I guess, being as I was a 7 year old girl who couldn't sing.
During high school, I scared my parents with the announcement that I was leaving school to get a hairdresser's apprenticeship.
Don't know why I wanted to do that, I couldn't (& still can't) get my own hair to look good ... may have been influenced by a school mate who did the same thing, and always seemed to have money & great clothes.
In retrospect, these may have been supplied by her 34 year old boyfriend.
Now, I'm a teacher. So, I guess I'm living the dream (apart from the ginger orphan part).
But, they have a heap of karaoke places here in China, and bloody cheap beer, so I can still fulfill my dream of being a drunken rockstar just like Barnesy ... for a couple of hours at a time ...
(, Fri 30 Mar 2007, 2:21, Reply)
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