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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War ReporterLike most people, I did the whole journalist/pilot/architect idea, once I'd reached the age when you realised that your pirate/astronaunt/superman ambition wasn't really going to happen.
Journalism was my big one though. Not just any old journo though - I wanted to be a war reporter. I thought it would the greatest job ever - hang arounc until it all kicked off in some far of place, fly over and stand there infront of a camera wearing a flack jacket, talking about explosions.
Until I realised that a) you and/or your cameraman stand a very good chance of meeting a lazerguided stickey end (usually as a result of a trigger happy US pilot) and b) I'm far too ugly for t.v.
So I'm a train driver. Sometimes the job does resemble Bagdad on a particularly insurgent-y day (think the last ain on a Friday night), and I often come uder aerial attack (usually local chavs throwing stones as I go by at 100mph).
Strange I never wanted to be a train driver as a small boy... do kids today want to be drivers, or was that just in the 1950's?
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HSDriver was probably still at work on, Mon 2 Apr 2007, 17:12,
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