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Sat, 03 May 2003 14:47

smith

On fire!

Registered: January 1970
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How many of you knew when you were 16 what you wanted to do when you grew up? How many of you actually feel grown up now? I get this question all the time......"What do you want to be?" I kinda just want to be "smith". Why do I have to make up my mind now? I won't be the same person at 40 that I am now..right now, I would just like to be a fishing guide in the Everglades or fly a cargo plane in Alaska. Everyone says I have to get those "pieces of paper" that let everyone know I can read and write and cypher.......

They had us take these aptitude tests at school to 'guide' our thinking. Mine said I should be a hermit....with fingers pointing to computer programmer (I said I liked computers), teacher (I said I liked kids), botanist (I said I liked shrubs?!?), landscape designer (I said I liked working in the yard). All of these are solitary jobs. All I have to go on is that I'm a Pisces, a solitary dreamer.

I found this website that listed archaic jobs..I want to go live back then:
Ankle Beater - boy who helped drive cattle
Besom Maker - make brooms
Bird Boy - scare birds away from crops
Baller (giggle) - boy who rolled the balls of clay for the potter
Ale Tester - (obvious) Wheeeeeee
Bottom Knocker - sagger maker's assistant (explain that one)

and my favorite being as it was kinda a thankless job:
Knocker Boy - sent into the mines to test for poisonous gases

Do you follow your talents? Do you follow the $$$? Do you just do what your parents tell you? I want to be an X-Man...I hope it pays well.

smith

		Sigh.......I'm never growing up By: smith on Sat, 03 May 2003 14:47
		Re: Sigh.......I'm never growing up By: tim...of usa on Sat, 03 May 2003 15:22
		Re: Sigh.......I'm never growing up By: simon reynolds on Sat, 03 May 2003 16:24
		I grew up too suddenly By: timmy on Sat, 03 May 2003 16:42
		Peter Pan By: e on Sat, 03 May 2003 17:08
		Re: Peter Pan By: dartagnon on Sun, 04 May 2003 14:30
		Re: Sigh.......I'm never growing up By: Guest on Sat, 03 May 2003 18:23
		Sometimes it's a disservice By: trevor on Sat, 03 May 2003 18:57
		Put me on the spot, thanks Trevor By: brian! on Sat, 03 May 2003 19:55
		Re: Sigh.......I'm never growing up / Then don't :) By: setras on Sat, 03 May 2003 20:29
		And about feeling grown up... By: setras on Sat, 03 May 2003 20:32
		Re: Sigh.......I'm never growing up By: dan on Sat, 03 May 2003 22:13
		Re: Sigh.......I'm never growing up By: dan on Sat, 03 May 2003 22:22
		Accounting's GREAT fun! By: nick on Sun, 04 May 2003 07:57
		Re: Sigh.......I'm never growing up By: Guest on Sun, 04 May 2003 00:20
		When I was 16... By: david in hong kong on Sun, 04 May 2003 03:14
		sweetie you'll make a GREAT X-man By: ien on Sun, 04 May 2003 07:11
		Re: sweetie you'll make a GREAT X-man By: dartagnon on Sun, 04 May 2003 14:41
		Re: Sigh.......I'm never growing up By: mike on Sun, 04 May 2003 15:54
		Rules for growing up By: charlie on Sun, 04 May 2003 16:32

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