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Wanted to be a pilot like so many others, wanted to be a pro artist too, but my first job was in photography, self employed. Studio, commercial and portraiture. Assistant and some solo gigs. Hated weddings. Loved studio work.
Discovered there wasn't any proper money in it long term unless you were a Bailey or Adams. Ditto for art.
Then trained in film post-production. Liked editing, liked timeline-based media - and lo and behold... into the fringes of IT I went.
Photography's a hobby. Art's my plan B. I know I can do a lot better than many successful artists out there, maybe one day, rodders...
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Originally posted by DieScum View PostWhen I was a kid I somehow got the idea that I wanted to be in the navy. Then as a teenager the idea of being a town planner somehow took hold.
Then when I had to get a job I started in IT.
Ideally I'd love to do something really, really well paid, where I get to travel to lots of cool locations, live it up on expenses and mingle and sleep with lots of fit women. Oh and it should also not involve hard work and be fun to do but simultaneously grant lots of power and respect.
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Originally posted by DieScum View Post
Ideally I'd love to do something really, really well paid, where I get to travel to lots of cool locations, live it up on expenses and mingle and sleep with lots of fit women. Oh and it should also not involve hard work and be fun to do but simultaneously grant lots of power and respect.
HTH
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Originally posted by DieScum View Post
Ideally I'd love to do something really, really well paid, where I get to travel to lots of cool locations, live it up on expenses and mingle and sleep with lots of fit women. Oh and it should also not involve hard work and be fun to do but simultaneously grant lots of power and respect.
You are NOT having my job
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When I was a kid I somehow got the idea that I wanted to be in the navy. Then as a teenager the idea of being a town planner somehow took hold.
Then when I had to get a job I started in IT.
Ideally I'd love to do something really, really well paid, where I get to travel to lots of cool locations, live it up on expenses and mingle and sleep with lots of fit women. Oh and it should also not involve hard work and be fun to do but simultaneously grant lots of power and respect.
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Originally posted by Doggy Styles View PostI loved astronomy but I never considered a career in it. I didn't know of any jobs in it. I was scared of heights anyway.
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Brewer - they were hazy days - then the brewery was shut and everyone was made redundant - I quickly sobered up after that.......
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I've done just about every job I ever wanted to do, except:
- Be an Astronaut
- Be an Archaeologist
- Be a Time Traveller
Oh well, maybe there's still time
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- Be an Astronaut
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I wanted to be a field marshall in the army or a king of a big country. Unfortunately our careers advice department were so rubbish, I ended up riding shotgun on a milk float.
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Originally posted by RichardCranium View PostKUATB
... or should that be "keep it up at the front"?
Although I've just remembered telling the careers teacher once that all I wanted to do was to play football for England in the 1978 world cup. They didn't qualify, which was part of the reason it remained an unfilled ambition. The other reason was that I was only a county league player, i.e. too crap.Last edited by Doggy Styles; 21 December 2009, 14:37.
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I wanted to be a lighthouse keeper because I figured it was the easiest job in the world. All you had to do was to remember to not switch off the light when you went to bed and if you could do that they would supply you with a free house near the beach and I'd just spend my times watching telly and sleeping. Wasn't impressed when I saw one on TV being resupplied by rowing boat in a storm as I didn't like the food they were giving him. So i decided I'd run a pub so I could have free beer. So far I've not done either!
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Originally posted by stek View PostWRT to the (male) porn star, I've always wondered how does:
1. One get it up more than twice a week?
Originally posted by stek View Post2. Project liberal streams of jizz on demand?
It isn't 'jizz'.
Originally posted by stek View Post3. Grow one of those 'tashes?
Originally posted by stek View Post4. Say 'ooooh baby that really makes me hard' without corpsing?
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