Do all 3 align 😯 or are they totally different? 😜
Thread title edited/shorted. Sorry for losing the poll, @cuddles_ndream . [-Sid]
Growing up and being in high school, I always wanted to be an English teacher. Teaching art for my secondary and history (of any kind whether it be American, Canadian, world) as my tertiary.
Not gonna lie... didn’t think my job would be snuggling people lol
Yeah things went a whole different way for me, I was supposed to follow the family line and be a soldier before the car wreck that derailed my life, but um its been a hell of a journey so far so it could be worse...
Yep. Knew I wanted to be an educator when I was in 5th grade. Went to school for it. It's what I've been doing for over 30 years.
I wanted to be a marine went to school for massage now I'm in the army. I didn’t plan, but I enjoy life’s journey & whichever direction it took me
@Sheena123 lol the end made me laugh a little the way you it sounded but that’s really cool, I actually love history 📚
@LyleLuvsHuggles really sorry to hear about the wreck!! hope your journey has brought amazing moments & experiences despite the setbacks, I know life has blessed you with 6 beautiful daughters 🌌
@arghdaddy 😅😂😂 I really appreciate the creativeness 🍻 😝
@DrCuddleBug youre def a rare gem 💎 very very few match all 3 cheers 🍻 : )
@craM all 3 has been different for me as well & I share your same sentiment as well : ) (ty for your service!)
I wanted to be an astronaut. Went to Space Camp (Space Academy actually, but everyone knows what Space Camp is), learned how much math was involved, gave up on that. Didn't go to school beyond high school. I'm a dish washer/haunter.
Somewhere between the first and third. Like many kids, what I wanted to be when I grew up changed on the regular. I wanted to be everything from a doctor to a firefighter to the singer in a boy band. In college I studied psychology, originally thinking I wanted to be a psychology researcher/scientist, then later considering being a clinical psychologist/psychotherapist. I ended up taking a "break" before going to grad school, and that "break" has lasted a decade now. As for what I want to do now, I honestly have no idea, but currently I'm working a temporary/contract job signing people up for the COVID-19 vaccine.
Honestly, it would be pretty great being a professional cuddler on here, which I tried once for about a month, but nobody sent me any requests, so I dropped that idea, plus my family would think I'm literally insane if they found out.
Honestly at this point, I don't even care that much about my "career" or lack thereof. The one thing I do know I want to be is a father. Raising a child with my values is one way I know I could make a positive difference in the world. I've considered adopting, but I don't think it would be fair to adopt a child and not allow him or her to have a mother.
Raising a child with my values is one way I know I could make a positive difference in the world
And how are your values better than the next person or that they are positive? They may work for you but be repulsive to someone else.
@FunCartel Well, that's true...everyone's values are repulsive to one person or another. I'm a Christian, so I would teach my children Christian values. I do realize those values are repulsive to come, but not to most people where I live, and most importantly, not to God.
By the way, how do you quote someone with that format like you did? I don't see that option anywhere.
On some level I knew I wanted to be a software developer since I was about 6 years old, when I got over my fear of being "derezzed" from watching Tron. I was fortunate to have parents who gave me access to computers and books like this: https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/
I taught myself to modify the simple text-based games in books like that, then write my own programs from scratch, and...pretty much everything fell into place from there.
Many of my coworkers followed very different paths, though, studying things like psychology and art and philosophy before arriving at software development.
I wanted to be a soldier, went to school for accounting and ended up in Information Technology. So all completely different, although all involved fighting battles.
Growing up, I was always interested in science. Mostly dinosaurs and biology. But in high school, I discovered that acting was something I was both good at and very much enjoyed. After graduating, I decided I didn’t have what it took to get into the industry, so I just sort of gave up and now I work in essentially customer service. Life is a highway, as they say.
@HugAnEwok: I was raised with Christian values and, uh, they kinda damaged me. Could be what God was going for, that—seems like a bit of a sadist, based on the things said in the Bible.
You quote people by prefacing the quote with a > and a space. You can hit "Preview" to see if you've got it right.
@HugAnEwok
I second what @DarrenWalker said, although our Christian upbringings were very different.
My father's goal was to instill in me a love for God. For me to be a Christian. He didn't consider the possibility that I would be entirely unconvinced by theism. When I made it known that I was an atheist, my life became a great deal harder. My father was of fond emotional abuse, you see; he had failed his life's goal, and he'd let everyone within earshot know just how pained he was all the time because of his failure.
It's important to keep in mind that his "failure" was that his child didn't believe what he did.
It was all very annoying, and it resulted in me cutting any emotional ties to my father. Beating him profusely in a fight after he felt the need to yell about how I was a sinner for an hour helped me in that quite a lot—he also became slightly more tolerable after that in his behavior.
He drove me away with his faith. He drove my mother away. He died alone in a hospital of cancer, and I felt nothing.
In short: maybe it's kind of a dick move to have your life's goal be for your child to believe exactly as you do, and to hold dear what you hold dear.
As a kid I've always wanted to be an actor or writer and that's what I'm currently going to school for now actually; I'm double majoring in theatre & english. I do cuddling and retail for work, but I'm working on a book currently while doing some things on the side for theatre (I know not much to do right now but I'm working on it with camera work at the moment). I've always had a fear of the unknown and my life not going how I want it to go but some of these comments actually make me optimistic for what my future holds. I'm 21 right now and who knows, I could possibly be a school teacher some day or maybe my acting and writing dreams will come true, who knows, I'm excited and the possibilities are endless.
I wanted to be President or anything else that would prove girls don't suck. My schooling prepared me to be a corporate widget. I am now an outlaw.
I was also brought up in a strictly Christian household. However, I had the advantage that my parents are actual Christians. My parents tried to instill Christian beliefs in us, and are disappointed that they haven't really succeeded, but we haven't fallen out about it. My dad is happy if I go to church, not sad or angry if I don't. He would be very upset at somebody being yelled at "for being a sinner" on the grounds a) we are all sinners and b) that's the whole point!!
So, @HugAnEwok, follow the example of my parents and not those of @DarrenWalker or @DarkLordChungus. Lead by example, not by force. Teach your children to love their neighbours, and teach them that love means all kind of things including respecting people's beliefs. It's much more important that your children keep an eye out for the lonely or vulnerable, than whether they are Christian or Muslim or atheist. Remember that the Old Testament is for information only, and that the first miracle was rescuing a party that had run out of booze. And that the best summary of Christianity I ever heard was, "Try to be a little kinder".
@CuddleDuncan: Yes... actual Christians, as opposed to those Christians whose Christianity is fundamental to their lives, who believe all scripture is God-breathed and useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, who take it all seriously and live as though the things written in the Bible were actually true.
Why is it that whenever someone says "real Christianity" what they mean is "the type of Christianity that I, personally, don't think could possibly hurt anyone"?
Every Christian thinks they're a "real" Christian, and that what they believe could never hurt anyone.
That said, I figured out pretty early on that since God made the way that leads to destruction wide and easy to find, and the way that leads to salvation narrow and difficult to find, the way He set things up basically guarantees that most people will be going to hell—and I'm not likely to be an exception, am I? Dealing with a deity like this—
—means that, frankly, someone like me is definitely not getting saved. So why not have fun?
As a kid, I wanted to be a thief, an assassin, or a spy when I grew up. Ideally some combination of all of these! Then I grew up a bit. I went after a Criminal Justice degree in college, became a certified teacher of English as a second language, learned to speak, read, and write Japanese, apprenticed with a couple different watchmakers....
And now, with all my hard-earned skills, I'm working customer service at an all-night gas station, cleaning toilets and getting yelled at by idiots who won't wear masks and blame me for their inability to pay for things. Whoohoo. America, land of opportunity.
@percilla_law: Here's hoping you're luckier than me!
When I was a child I wanted to fight giant robots, like Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid. Then, as I grew older, I wanted to be a videogame journalist. Now I work at a gas station, however, I have had some success as a writer.
At 14 I wanted to be a prophylactic because there were places I wanted to visit that I hadn’t visited yet but then I found out you could either break or end up being a waste receptacle. I was not keen on a career in the sanitation disposal industry.
At 30 I wanted to be a bean bag because at first glance a bean bag is cool—it shape shifts and is colorful. I became the bean bag briefly—the part that contacts the sitters’ buttocks and kisses butt all day. I can’t stomach that.
When I was a kid I wanted to be a locomotive Engineer.
From 8th grade to even now I want to be a broadcaster and still exploring things I'd like to do.
But I am a Janitor/Custodian/ Cleaner by profession; though I actually went to college for two associate degrees and one bachelor's in the business field...
However when I found myself being the manager of an arcade, I realized, "you know, I'm not really good at this management thing"
@DarkLordChungus Are you published anywhere that we might be able to access?
@littermate
Probably not, as I've only been published in obscure poetry magazines.
I studied ballet from the age of two until I was in my early twenties. Sadly, a knee injury ruined my childhood dream of being a ballerina. I am a chemist according to my degree, but I am a hospital pharmacy technician by profession. On a fun note, I'm not a ballerina, but I am a professional belly dancer and fire performer in my spare time....living my dream to dance in two very different genres!
I have been a motor head all my life, in High School, I took auto class, welding, sheet metal, mechanical drafting. As I think back, I don't remember really wanting any specific job, but to work with my hands on about anything mechanical. living in WV., ending up drive coal trucks and running heavy equipment, ended up moving to FL. and got a job as a marine engine mechanic and ended up doing that for 26 yrs., I was happy with my job, went a little further into my own boat sales & service business, sold it and now transport boats as a part time business, which I do like. I like to drive, so I have been paid to travel to 35 states and around 400, 000 miles on my old work truck so far. With all that I learned, it allowed me to built my own race cars that I run on dirt tracks and build my work truck. I have had several good paying jobs in the past, but just did not like what I was doing, so I moved along.
@DarkLordChungus I'm gonna start a poetry thread and I'd be honored if you'd post something.
In school: no idea, just want to be happy Me now: lol whats a job
I'm currently in school working on becoming an electrical engineer. I'm currently studying transform methods and the math involved is getting a little complicated(calculus is needed), but I enjoy it.
Here's the solution to the first pop quiz to give an idea or the type of math used.