When I grow up I wanna be a...

“I have thought seriously about taking a 2 year program that the local VoTech provides called "Wood Techniques". It involves home design, blue print reading, furniture making and everything having to do with building a house. Currently the state of Wisconsin pays 50 % of tuiition and fees for resident veterans, but I just found out that next year they will pay 100%. This includes all 4 year schools in both Wisconsin and Minnesota. What a deal! Now I've got to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. So, that's the question: If you had some dummy paying full tuition and fees for a four year ride, what would you shoot for and why?”

“I bet ya would if ya could.

Double-dippin'?”

“Heh-heh....."wood techniques."”

“LMAO, you guys are such dorks!!

100%, that is totally sweet. Hmm, I think I'd either become a natural health consultant, or go to cooking school.”

“Cooking school is a good idea, especially after you tried to poison me and young Mister Bonehead.
>8^P”

“FUNNY!! :-)”

“nimble- if i were you, i'd go to school for massage therapy.

once you get your claws into a hot classmate you can drop out and switch to a real major for a real job, but keep your new hot masseuse on the side.
if she graduates and still never charges you $, then you know she's the marrying kind.”

“LOL...good idea sacco. Of course if it looks like fun try any course. Heck I paid my way through EMT school....could have taken the Government Free Ride..but I figure the Hope Grant (in Georgia) is for people who need financial assistance.

But hey if you paid your dues take the ride. Good luck, heck years ago I took Electrical Wiring Commercial and Residential as a "thing to do" went off great and I had fun.”

“Sacco, I like the way you think!

You are wise beyond your years.
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“Sacco - I did a 1 month stint at a Massage Therapy Program in Virginia shortly after I retired. One of the requirements of the program was that we strip to our skivvy's and practice massaging each other. No problem so far, but eventually a very obese, heavy drinking, female classmate started stalking me, so I quit. I guess I should have rubbed her the wrong way.”

“Great Googly Moogly!!!

That sounds like a great story for a screen play!”

“LOL...agreed MarkO...but would M Knight Shyamalan be willing to do it?”

“I'd go to Forest Ranger school! :)”

“I've been thinking about this for a while, and if I could afford it, I'd become a school teacher - probably elementary age kids.

Also thought about being a geologist or some sort.

For now, I'll just continue to count beans.”

“nimble- that's why i say just do it until you find that hot classmate. i'd never want to have a job touching people.

it's like the classic gyno thought. the first time every teenage boy learns about that career -"bingo, that's the job for me!" then reality sets in when you realize how many fat, nasty, gizzles you're gonna have to look at. barf!”

“Roam where do you want to teach?

Sacco....want more fun, go to some of their homes and get them out to the Ambulance...or out of a car...ARRGH. Its a running joke on my shifts that if we get a medical call it will be a whale.”

“no thanks XL. i don't wanna know what's eating gilbert grape”

“Roam where do you want to teach?

Of all the places I've lived, I like Denver the best -- good climate, great mountains.... If I could live anywhere though, I'd probably go a little furter west into the heart of the mountains rather than the edge of the plains.”

“Carpentry or Nutritionalist.

I had a gianormous chick in my MT classes. She was great to work on because her muscles were huge.”

“If I had it to do all over again, I would have skipped college. Upon joining the Army, I would have become a diesel engine mechanic(like my recruiter recommended) instead of a cannon cocker. After years of experiance working on diesel engines for the military, I could be working for myself today. I would have specialized in marine diesel engine repair. I love to fish and would have no trouble fishing for free anyday I wanted to as a mechanic. I have a good paying job, that pays a little to well to start over. I think I could be doing better by now however working for myself. Life is about choices, we don't always make the right ones.”

“In three years I'll have served the mandatory sentence with the gov't and can retire with full insurance but no $$...so I'll have to work at something else. I really just want to stay home and make fairies all day...”

“Uh, Twigeater...............

WTF are you talking about??

I wanna work with fine wood.”

“I think Twigeater just made an out of context quote:)”

“LOL...

talk about out of context quotes!”

“If I could do it all over again, I don't think I'd want to grow up.”

“Lumber you can only be young once...you can always be immature”

“Absolutely.

You must hang on to your young self no matter how old you get.

Where's the fun in being an old dried-up fart?

Hmmmm, except for maybe scaring little kids?
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“I hope to eventually be self-employed working in the outdoors---something I should have started 20 years ago and almost did before one of those "choices" things came up, lol. There's no better job than doing something you'd be doing even if you weren't working. (hopefully that made sense)


But that still doesn't mean I have to grow up or act like an adult all the time.”

“"There's no better job than doing something you'd be doing even if you weren't working. (hopefully that made sense)"

That makes a hell of a lot of sense to me.

I'm doing stuff with mahogany, maple, cherry, poplar, ash, etc., on the side.

Doing it all the time is my dream..........mmmmmmmm, screaming routers and planers and hours of hand-sanding in a dusty shop.”

“Non, that is all I've ever done. Never workered at a real job. My skin shows it. Now ,I'm retired and really have to work on this key'bored' trading stocks.Every other day, I go out to find my old buds for a beer or sooooooooo.”

“funny thing, i've read about more than one study that show people who get their dream job are rarely happy.
the happiest people tend to be those with jobs most of would consider menial.
i guess it's like winning the lottery, day dreaming about it is more fun than actually reaching the prize.

in my experience, the most important thing to job happiness is who you're working with. what you do, how much you get paid, ect are much less important.”

“Sacco, you got it.”

“hours of hand-sanding in a dusty shop.”

Marko's got big boogers.”

“Good point, Sacco. I've always been happy with a shovel and a wheel barrow.”

“"in my experience, the most important thing to job happiness is who you're working with. what you do, how much you get paid, ect are much less important.”
sacco
9:28:57 AM
7/19/06

I think that is only part true. Crappy coworkers can make a great job bad, but I don’t think they can make a crappy job great. For example one of my summer jobs in college was working in a paper mill. I was working a rotating shift where I’d work 7 days straight then get 2 off, then work another 7 days at a different shift time, then another 2 days off, and so on. Temperatures were a minimum of 110*F with about 90% humidity. All I did all day was operate an overhead crane and load a cutting machine with 3 to 10 ton rolls of paper to be cut into smaller rolls. Then I would send the rolls down a conveyer to be shipped out. The people I worked with were great, but the job sucked. It defiantly wasn’t a job I wanted to do for the rest of my life regardless of how great the people I worked with were.”

“A couple of jobs I really liked...

working at the chicken plant - not hard work, and we never worked an 8 hour day. Course I was living with someone at the time and the pay was good, so not working 40 hours was okay...

working at a woolen mill - I worked the 11pm to 7am shift, 6 nights a week, which suited my internal night owl clock to a T. And it was piece work - I always did well on piece work, which I think is one reason why working for the gov't drives me crazy.”

“i hear ya zac, i'm not saying the what you do and how much you make doesn't matter at all- just not as important as who you work with.”

“Ahhh, we've gone from staying home and making fairies to working at a chicken plant. I'm nigh onto speechless...:)”

“I like what I do, who I work with, where I work, and how much I get compensated.

superfecta

Event the decisions I thought were crappy ones have worked out for me in the long term. I wouldn't start over voluntarily.

However if I had a free ride I'd find a way to keep doing what I'm doing and earn a masters of fine art degree or a human factors engineering degree.”

“Well, for me, this is all just theory. At the age of (almost) 62 I am well aware of my mortality and time spent in school would be subtracted from hiking, kayaking, golf, riding my bike and whatever else strikes my fancy. As soon as they told me the fall semester starts 28 August, the fact that I'm hiking Isle Royal on 6 September put things into the proper perspective. If I were a stripling of 50 again, I'd go back in a heart beat. School is fun, but not as much as real fun.”

“hpm hasn't been at his new job long enough :)”

“when i grow up i want to be a real life "karen" from the show "will and grace"!! she has the perfect life! :)”

“people who get their dream job are rarely happy.

i can see that. because what was once fun, is now work”

“Nah I still have a blast at my job. Been donig this more or less 19 years...last 7 in investigations.....LOVE IT>”

“well arent we mr doesnt fit the statistic. im sure it was an evil doing libby that came up with that study”