Dreams and Ambitions

[seddy-0]

ok. i am posting this wondering if any of you have wanted to be something growing up and took the steps to do it. if you have what was your motivation? if you didn't, what caused you to give it up?

i know we all wanted to be things growing up, but sometimes we give up on pushing to a goal or dream we had a passion for. we make one compromise thinking we can always go back, but then another one is made and another.. and soon enough we have lost site of things that we so looked forward to in life.

on the other hand there are times we get the chance to push and we make some insane sacrifices to get where we really want in life. through all the push, the pain, the ups the downs. we reach that mountain top in life. yeah the road was the harder one.. but the reward in the long run was worth it.

so lets hear what you all have wanted to be or are being now.

 

[Tucker]

I aaalllllways wanted to become famous

Yes yes, generic dream which will never happen, but I always wanted to be in a movie or be a singer. I never took voice lessons, but I took every acting class I could and now I'm quite the drama nut during the spring season at school Who knows, maybe I'll have my big break someday wacky

 

[Richard B Riddick]

I'll state one aspiration I had.

I used to believe computer related fields were full of intelligent people. And that if I wanted to find smart people who knew things and learn it was a good place to be. I aspired to learn as much as I could about computers, programming, etcetera and hung out with people who were hackers who were breaking into servers, ISP's, etc. I studied and learned some of the history and culture. If I was driving somewhere and stopped at a red light, I would open a book and start reading and try to find ways to maximize the time I could spend on it.

If you've heard of the group called anonymous, I was a member of anonymous for about 5 minutes before I changed my mind and decided not to join. Its not a big deal. It was awhile ago back in 2007 or 2008 & I don't have ties with them anymore.

That's more or less the reason I can get info on people sometimes if I decide I want to & why I can answer some of the tech related questions posted here no one bothers with.

Somewhere along the line, I got disillusioned with it. Its hard to put into words exactly why it happened. One of my friends was a game programmer for Konami who worked on the console port of DDR(dance dance revolution). He wound up quitting his job and played poker online full time and made a better and happier living at it, as far as I can tell. In 2008, he paid something like $50,000 on income taxes alone and made a bundle.

In a way, I think the 1980's and earlier period was the golden age of software development. That was the time when a single programmer or a small group of people could really compete on the cutting edge of technology without a ton of capital and resources. These days, it takes millions of dollars and substantial manpower to get things done. And, its a game of giants where indie developers and small time programmers can no longer make a real dent in the industry. There are exceptions, the guy who wrote Doom and the creator of Minecraft. But, for the most part, those are few and far between and people who don't mind spending years and years of development and debugging that may or may not pay off in the end.

There are other reasons I became disillusioned I won't go into.

I basically chucked everything I ever knew about it out a window and spent my time learning other things.

But, at one time, I did think it was really awesome.

 

[Dr. Percival Cox]

When I was younger, I wanted really badly to be a cop. It was mostly brought on by my having watched countless buddy cop films growing up and I always felt like I wanted that. But as with most childish aspirations, it quickly ended. I can't count how many other things I've wanted to be since then but I could try. Let's see, there was astronaut (epitome of cliche), mechanic, actor, Navy SEAL, gymnast, etc. Far too many to count.

For a while, I did very badly want to become a music teacher. To be fair, I very much still do. Unfortunately, I live in an area where even half-decent music colleges are more or less non-existent. So, I started to go to school to try and become an electronic engineer. Didn't take too long before I found myself bored with that. I should probably drop out before I finish getting my degree for a field I have little to no interest in anymore.

 

[dimmufan]

When I was younger I had a few choices of what I wanted to be. Of course there's every little boy's dream to be a fireman. I also wanted to be a QB for the Dallas Cowboys. As I grew up I wanted to be an astronomer, a chemist, a physicist, a meteorologist, and a math teacher. I even wanted to join the army when 9/11 happened. When I got to college I ended up changing my major so many times that college started to get a wee bit expensive. So now at least I have all my basics outta the way but I have all these credits that don't count toward what I wanna do now, which is computer technician.

 

[Catnip]

For as long as I can remember, I've always wanted to be an actress.

I took some classes to put in my resume, got headshots done, and I've been in a few things here and there. I'm getting my headshots re-done this Friday too, since it's been 2 years and I can deliver a lot more confidence in the photos now. The whole fame thing has never appealed to me though, but I do still want to be involved in cinematic arts. So I'm going to go to school so I can become a producer. School isn't exactly a requirement, but I think it's completely necessary. Even if someone is a natural born leader, learning the skills and organizing them within yourself is a great step. So that's what I'll do.

I'm still young, so my plans are in action.