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06 Mar 2010, 12:36 am

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When I was in elementary school I wanted to be a quantum physicist. In junior high I wanted to be a parapsychologist.


how close did you come to making it there?



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06 Mar 2010, 12:48 am

auntblabby wrote:
DarrylZero wrote:
When I was in elementary school I wanted to be a quantum physicist. In junior high I wanted to be a parapsychologist.


how close did you come to making it there?


Nowhere near. Other than reading some books I never did anything with it. I ended up pursuing other interests. What I found out somewhat recently is that most of my career interests involved figuring things out, solving "puzzles," so to speak, so that's what I've been focusing on.



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06 Mar 2010, 12:50 am

I still haven't given up my ambition to become a worldwide commodity unto myself, but in the meantime I'm inching along with a shop full of inventions and the possibility of a writing career to finance patenting and marketing them.


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06 Mar 2010, 12:51 am

DarrylZero wrote:
how close did you come to making it there?
Nowhere near. Other than reading some books I never did anything with it. I ended up pursuing other interests. What I found out somewhat recently is that most of my career interests involved figuring things out, solving "puzzles," so to speak, so that's what I've been focusing on.


sounds like you would make a great detective. deductive and inductive reasoning [logic] is alien to me. i could not reason my way out of a wet paper bag.



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06 Mar 2010, 6:50 am

First I wanted to have suit of armour and a big sword and go on quests.
After that, I wanted to be a musician.


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06 Mar 2010, 6:57 am

When i was about 8 years old, i wanted to be a stand up comic. Ironic, being that I ended up with severe social anxiety problems. :lol:


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06 Mar 2010, 7:18 am

I remember when I was little that I wanted to be a bus driver since buses used to be my complete obsession or a scientist since space was complete obsessions and yet I still go on and on about it. :lol:


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06 Mar 2010, 11:11 pm

it doesn't say anything, you have to read it


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