[matt85]

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What do you want to do when you grow up?
I got asked that question constantly when I was a kid, and I always gave some half-assed answer. Oddly, I never sat down and tried to figure out for myself what I actually wanted to do. I'm not sure that it occurred to me that I'd have to decide. Careers were one of those things that just happened to you as you got older; like wrinkles, gray hair, and watching golf on TV.

So now I am grown up and I still don't know what I want to do. I'm halfway through my working life and still can't decide. I've had all sorts of jobs, many of which I did quite well, but none of them felt like a "calling" or whatever the hell I'm supposed to feel. So I have some questions.

1) What did you want to do when you grew up?
2) Did you actively decide upon a career?
3) If so, is that the career you now have?
4) Do you have some "dream job" that you'd love to pursue but have not?
5) How old is too old to start a career from scratch?
6) Why won't Jessica Alba return my calls?

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1) I wanted to play football (soccer). I played at a premier league club while I was at school and figured hopefully if it does go to [censored] i'll go somewhere in the lower leagues. Went to [censored] more so than I ever though possible for various reasons and by 18 it probably wasnt an option anymore. Then went to college ('Banking will do theres lots of money in that'). Figured life is too short to be a slave to money and went off to train as a pilot which aside from running my own business(es) at some point is pretty much the dream job. In what capacity of flying I still dont know but its going to be a lot of fun finding out.

2) Yes.

3) Its the career im working towards.

4) I guess if I'm honest the only thing I would like to do if I had a load of time would be to go back to school/college and get the grades that I really could have got if i actually tried. They were pretty good in comparison too most but i literally put zero effort into education past about 15 and still breezed it with ok grades. We were sorting off talking Oxford/Cambridge/Medical school potential in hindsight.

5) I know commercial pilots who didnt start flying until well into their 40's so based on that I would say 40's+ for pretty much anything apart from perhaps the afromentioned atheltic endevours and maybe medicine/architecture type stuff.

6) She wont return mine either. Bitch.