Ambitions As A Child??????

I think your screen resolution has let you down

c – a – r – n – a – l

Oh, carnal knowledge! Actually, than makes much more sense…..must poke a few more holes in the visor of my aluminium-foil helmet! 😮

carnaval?….

ambitions:

1: Learn to read…….

Slipping back to reality for a moment –
1 – be a pilot. Fail
2 – be an engineer – pass
3 – be a pilot AND engineer…. working on it
4 – own a company – pass
5 – own a successful company…. not yet.

P.S. I think it is usually spelt camels. 🙂

I think your screen resolution has let you down

c – a – r – n – a – l

Moggy

Then health problems intervened and I haven’t worked for several years and am largely viewed as unemployable now, at the age of 41. I suppose what I’m trying to say is to go for your ambitions while you can, the chance may slip away sooner than you think.

My ambitions now are smaller, but still significant to me. This week’s is to walk around Sainsbury’s without falling over.

Comet, what do you intend to do now?

Regards,

kev35

Sir,
A brave person like yourself shouldnt have an avatar that reads coward 🙂
That was very moving.

1) Fly fighters
2) Be very rich
3) Have carnal knowledge of Brigitte Bardot

Epic, all-round fail 🙁

Moggy

In respect of 3), just look what a very close association with animals can do to a good looking woman. I reckon you were best out of it, Moggie.:D

3) Have carnal knowledge of Brigitte Bardot

I didn’t know Brigitte Bardot knew anything about camals? :confused:

P.S. I think it is usually spelt camels. 🙂

1) Fly fighters
2) Be very rich
3) Have carnal knowledge of Brigitte Bardot

Epic, all-round fail 🙁

Moggy

Tank Commander. Flame throwing type.
Fire Engine Driver.
Steam Engine driver (When trains were trains!)
Airline Pilot.

1 and 2 came close. 3 died with the Cast Iron trians and 4 never really excited me.

To be rich ! 😀 did it happen ? errrrrrrrrrrr yes and then NO :D:D but I am still happy with my life 🙂

Mine have all been done, but 1:

Done:

– Be in the Joseph Children’s Choir
– Sing at Durham Cathedral
– Break a guiness world record
– Perform at the theatre royal

Not yet:

– Be in a west end musical.

Very simple. From the age of about 6, to fly. And for various reasons I wasn’t able to achieve the ambition. At least not by joining the RAF. I was offered a Navigators Course at Hornchurch, on medical grounds, but flying was all I wanted so that was that.

I’ve done okay. I’m not rich or famous, but I’ve done a lot.

As a kid, watching Whirlybirds, I wanted to fly a Bell 47. Did that.

A few years later, I was reading one of my first history books about the European Air War and I hoped to visit the UK. Did that.

A few years later, I fell in love with a custom car on TV. It’s now in my garage.

A few years after that, I remet the girl in high school I had a super “crush” on.
We got together for awhile and it was great. Far more than the expected prurient acting out of high-school fantasies, it helped me get over the death of my first wife.

My father was an AF officer, so I wanted to do that.
Unlike him, I couldn’t be a pilot, but I did a job where my talents are. Never made general…but I had a good, interesting, and occasionally fun, career.

I always loved TV news, so I became a TV journalist for a few years.

And in case my wife somehow reads this, I better mention I hoped to find the perfect woman…and I did.:D

Unless you grow up to be the #1 footballer, film star, or politician (PM, Czar, President, King of the World), I’m sure most everyone doesn’t hit 100% of their goals.
The trick is to know which one’s you’ve made and be content with that.
After all, there are probably a lot of people who haven’t done as well as you.
Be thankful.

Joining the RAF – problem!!

Hi Guys-

Not sure if i’m in the right thread here but it’s the most relevent one i could find. Since I was very young it’s always been my ambition to join the RAF – not neccessarily as a pilot but in some kind of flying role. 18 months ago I had a skiing accident and had to have surgery on my spine. I am 100% recovered and don’t have any pain or problems with my back anymore. I’ve recently found out that the RAF will reject you straight away for any position (not neccessarily a flying role) if you’ve had spinal surgery – obviously i’;m absolutely gutted.

Just wondering if anyone has come accross this before, and if you know if there is any way I could still get in if I could prove that there is now absolutely nothing wrong with my back?

If not, do you know if the army would recruit you as a pilot with back surgery or would the same rules apply?

Cheers,

V.

RE: Ambitions As A Child??????

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 04-12-02 AT 05:57 PM (GMT)]Hand

I’ve been through a divorce as well and you’re right it is a different kind of pain, it’s not a physical pain, but it hurts like hell, and it generally leaves some very deep mental scars.

But every cloud has a silver lining so they say, I met somebody who put some meaning back into my life ( see “whats the meaning of life” thread)she gave me the freedom to pursue my hobbies, whatever they were and encouraged me and gave me back the confidence that my first wife ripped out of me, she’s also my best friend.

Kev

That is the most valuable commodity there is , friends. And I’m sure you’ve got a few on this forum.

Dave

RE: Ambitions As A Child??????

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 04-12-02 AT 02:46 PM (GMT)]As Kev was saying wisdom is often a matter of age.
Life is sometime cruel , often hard.

When I was a kid, my ambition was to become a pilot. Unfortunately my eyes were not compatible with this project. I kept working in science studies and became an electronics engineer. I got a degree in computer science and now I’m working for a CAE company.

In the mean time I got married , got a couple of beautiful kids ( as every dad says , the most beautiful of the world) and got divorced and will be maried again soon.

This was an other kind of pain to get over of.

All of this made me realize what was really important.

1) health
2) Have my beloved around me
3) Enjoy life before it’s too late

Carreer ,wealth ,stock options, nice cars, etc all of this is just
bullsh****t .

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dcfly and wysiwyg,

Thank you for your kind comments. I know it might sound strange but the key forums do help me a lot. I can slowly continue my research, I receive help from many of the members on here, and also, apart from pain, my disability doesn’t hamper me here. It also does a lot for my sanity (some of you might disagree)but I have had some great discussions on here and some damn good arguments.

So, for that, I thank all of you.

Warmest regards,

kev35

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Agreed. Kev, you are really starting to make every post count these days!

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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 03-12-02 AT 00:47 AM (GMT)]Man! you really do put things into perspective!

Dave

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My ambitions have changed or evolved as I have achieved or failed to achieve them. Now, it might sound corny but my main ambition in life is still to be happy. To start with I wanted to join the RAF but a lack of application and aptitude put paid to that. I then spent thirteen years working as a warehouseman/driver. It was an easy job with plenty of variety, but I never exercised the desire to stretch myself, at least not for a while. For years I’d had a nagging feeling that I wanted to do domething to help people and this finally coalesced into the decision to go to nursing college. I had at last found something I wanted to do, and something I was good at, really good at. I qualified and worked particularly in surgery and care of the elderly and terminally ill. Not wishing to be tied to a contract so I could move around and gain more experience saw me spending more and more of my time working with children with disabilities. I had found my working ‘home.’ This I loved and worked as a team leader in a unit for adults with extreme challenging behaviuor and as officer in charge of a respite unit for children with learning disabilities. My only ambition then was to work in that field till I retired.

Then health problems intervened and I haven’t worked for several years and am largely viewed as unemployable now, at the age of 41. I suppose what I’m trying to say is to go for your ambitions while you can, the chance may slip away sooner than you think.

My ambitions now are smaller, but still significant to me. This week’s is to walk around Sainsbury’s without falling over.

Comet, what do you intend to do now?

Regards,

kev35

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I failed marine biology because I got so sick and tired of “draw and label five plankton,” “draw and label five marine worms”, “draw and label five things in shells”, “write an essay in a group of four on GM crops”, “design a poster in a group of four”, “fish and birds are important parts of the ecosystem but we don’t study them” – all things I had to endure during the three years of purgatory. We were conned into thinking we could do a study on something we were interested in for the final year assessment, we were told to spend the summer thinking about what we wanted to do. I came up with a really good idea, but when it came to it we could only study things related to the narrow interests of the lecturers (seaweed, things crawling on seaweed, things in shells stuck on rocks, fisheries economics and worms). I had to re-do my idea literally overnight to fit in with a stupid theme and I totally lost interest and motivation with the whole thing. Predictably my mediocre effort with the final study, coupled with my hatred for public speaking (we had to give a 15 minute lecture on something of interest to our narrow minded tutor) meant I failed on two modules. I wa stold to re-do my final year big project (which I refused to do) and then I was entered for an exam on the 2nd September 2002, the very day I was booked to stay in London prior to flying out to Belgium on the 3rd. Naturally, the holiday came first and I failed to show for the exam. Hope that answers your question.
Maes. Definitely the best lager in the world.