What did you want to be when you grow up...

[Rufus Gwertigan]

My little teenage sister is gonna be off to France to work on set for the new Martin Scorsese film and her attitude to it is "whatever" and response was "f**k I want to do it!". Which has got me thinking about what I wanted to be when I grew up, which was a fireman and I actually would of become one a few years ago if it wasn't for one my eyes of being messed up but hey-ho got a decent paying job now.

So what did everyone else want to be before they became an adult?

[jump]

I wanted to be a deck officer in the Royal Navy. At the age of 12 I went to a Naval "Academy" aka Hull Trinity House. I did O levels in Seamanship, Astronomy and Navigation. I joined the navy on the 8th Aug 1984, but I was discharged after 2 weeks. I tried to sign on the trawlers that my dad worked on but I was refused. Every day I went down on the docks to be told to f**k off. I failed the medical for deck crew on Merchant ships....

My dad took me at the age of 13 and went aboard the last trawler he would ever sail on. I had done 5 trips on trawlers before that day, and he said, "Whilst I live you won't work on these boats son".

By the age of 16 I had a total of 9 months service on Deep Sea Trawlers. I tried some boats but no one would have me. In them days you went down the dock and signed onto a boat, but my name was worthless.... The company I had sailed with in the past (Hamilngs) was bankrupt, and the trawler I had worked on, St Jason, was held in a dock in Ijmuieden in Holland. But my Dad had said "No!!" He knew the end was Nigh...

I went to the Board of Trade, but the only job I would get was down below... This is 1984 and there where not many jobs around on ships. I tried to do an HND in Marine Electronics but I was a f**k wit.. The trawlers would not have me, and the ferries would not have me. I could not pass the medical for any f**ker...

I managed a trip on the Arctic Corsair. The last side-winder trawler out of Hull. The last trip with my dad, and the trip I realised fishing was dead in Hull.

I am 43 years of age, and I wish that I was that same young man going to sea at 16. My dad died doing the job he loved, and I wished that I could have shown him that I would have made him proud. I have 5 beautiful children that I will never swap the world for, and I think of them always. But sometimes, I think on the gentle swaying on the trawler on a flat calm see, just watching a blood red sunset pass down into the sea.

Since that day I have seen real crap, I have been in a war, I have been a nurse oh blah blah blah blah.

At the moment I am attempting to train as a Clinical/Forensic Psychologist. Got the world and its lobster against me. I am keeping myself to myself. I am starting at the BSc level and I need a 1st Class to move on after that. I have seen a lot of shit in my life I can use, but I am distancing myself from everyone now.

If you want to know the bit in between from a deck officer to a Clinical Psychologist I have no idea. I have done loads. I have worked for the CSA, and been a Psychiatric Nurse. I have worked in factories making your food safe (sausages and pok for Sainsburys), and evry winter I work for the Royal Mail. I have done work at fesitivals as a steward and other things, and I have even worked on the fish markets grading fish.

I have a goal in life, but there is not a day that if I am near a dock I shed a tear.

[rabid]

Oh yeah, I forgot astronaut.

[swede]

When I was younger I wanted to work backstage for the WWE/WWF

My daughter is three and she recently told me that when she grows up she wants to be the princess of all the peas !!

[Pogues Mcgogues]

On a wrestling note, I wanted to be a member of Hulk Hogans NWO.

[swede]

On a wrestling note, I wanted to be a member of Hulk Hogans NWO.

[rubenz]

I wanted to be a bus driver or taxi driver when i was little. I never achieved my dream though.......

[rexclark]

On a wrestling note, I wanted to be a member of Hulk Hogans NWO.

[ampersand]

i wanted to be like yokozuna when i was wee. think this was the reason for me having a fat bastard spell

[bunique]

A fish and chip shop lady.

[PeterD]

I wanted to be Ted Bovis.

[superdry]

When I was younger I wanted to manage a pub. Now I manage a pub and I don't want to do it anymore!

[Purple Monkey]

When I was a kid I used to create characters and levels for videogames and draw my own comics and card/board games with their own rules and stuff and thought "I'd love to do this and get paid".

And that's sort of what I do now.

[jump]

It's occurred to me that I have far less amount of tattoos than I thought I would have by this age.

[Pogues Mcgogues]

So did I, the only difference was I was about 15.

[ampersand]

away wi your nwo pish.

mega powers, razor ramon and diesel ftw!

[rexclark]

Scott Hall, who wouldn't aspire to be him?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5eZFihFGS4

[ampersand]

was that for real?

[rexclark]

was that for real?

[jump]

was that for real?

[ampersand]

I don't think so, but he is actually an alcoholic.

[Pogues Mcgogues]

WCW got in big shit for that. He was an alcoholic in real life and it was widely reported. So to try and convince the early teens who may think wrestling was still real, they put it into the story line and it aparently ended up making him worse.

[Jaybles]

When i grew up i wanted to be a red car............i am still working on it