When you were a child what did you want to be/do when you grew up?

[Reeder]

An accountant. Started the training, realised how boring it was. Now I'm lost... I'm sure the right thing will come along. I'm pretty content at the moment and I'm still young, but the sooner the better I guess!

What did you want to be/do?
Did it work out as expected?
Are you pleased how it has ended up or would you still rather do/be your childhood dream?

[dizzyblonde]

A jockey. I have had a love of horses since very young.



I grew too tall!!


I wanted to be a set and costume designer, and had great prospects for doing so, when leaving school. Then I wandered off onto a different path. Sometimes I wish I hadn't wandered off, life would have been so different, but alas, such is life.

[startrek.steve]

Astronaut

[Mr Speirs]

I wanted to be an Airline Pilot.

Went to join air cadets when I was 12 and spent the entire night marching and wearing itchy clothing. So never went back...that was the end of my flying career :)

I love what I do now though.

[tigersaw]

I used to watch all the factory and slum clearance work in the 60's and wanted to be the man who swung the big ball on the end of the crane knocking everything down

[fenjer]

A solicitor/lawyer.

I rebelled at 18 and turned down a place at Oxford and went to be an au pair...

[Bri w]

A ship's engineer. Decided spending time at sea wasn't for me... couldn't walk down the pub with my mates.

Ended up at BT for 14 years, then became a hospital engineer. Now I tell other engineers..... and they ignore me.

[Balky001]

I wanted to be a policeman. I did not become one. Shame, I'd be retiring in 4 years time instead of the 21 I have left!

[maviczap]

Never had a clue really what I wanted to do, usual pipe dreams. Too interested in outside activities to get the exam results I was capable of.

I've been lucky to do what I have done in my career, and I just fell into what I do, just by chance.

[Sir Trev]

Fireman, like me dad. Then realised you had to polish your shoes EVERY night...

[timwilky]

I wanted to be an engine designer, I spent my childhood hanging round with race teams on Chevron B24 F5000, B19, B29 F2/Atlantic etc. and thought that was the way to go.

What a pity I had to go to school.

[Stingo]

A marine engineer. I am one, but I didn't get as high up the ladder as I imagined I was going to...not completely disappointed...I have enjoyed myself but therein lies the problem...probably.

[paiste]

A drummer. I am one but realised you had to be good to do it for a living!

[minimorecambe]

A princess

[kellyjo]

I was always really envious of the kids at school who knew what directon they were headed (even if it didnt pan out that way). I never knew what to do and dabbled in a bit of everything until I had the kids. Now im back and trying to find something I can do for the next 20 years. I feel that I belong in the classroom and am just putting in my first couple of applications. I will get a post because im determined but I still have a nagging worry about what i'll do if it doesnt give me the satisfaction im hoping for. I belive that everyone has a natural talent for something, I just wish I knew what mine was!!

[MR UKI (1)]

SV650.org mod (I wasn't very ambitious at school) :D

[-Ralph-]

A dustman.

I was only 4.

I wanted to drive the truck and press the buttons on the back.

[Seggons]

I never knew what I wanted to do through school and to be honest I still don't. But I am happy in what I'm doing now.

[anna]

A killer-whale trainer.

[metalangel]

I wanted to be an Airline Pilot.

Went to join air cadets when I was 12 and spent the entire night marching and wearing itchy clothing. So never went back...that was the end of my flying career :)

That's almost exactly the same as me!

Except I stuck the air cadets out for three years. I got to shoot rifles and fly a Cessna 172 in a nasty crosswind, and sit in the back of a Piper Cherokee in a deliberately induced spin.

Then the base where we met every week closed, and we were reduced to marching around the halls and gymnasium of a local school (seriously) and I left.

I'm not a pilot, though.

[Geordie Mick]

My Dad! He rode motorbikes, built and flew toy aeroplanes, could seemingly fix anything and, well, he was me Dad.

Now, when folk tell me I'm getting like my Dad, it doesn't seem quite so appealing..... (except for the bikes, like).:p

[Lozzo]

I never knew what I wanted to do through school and to be honest I still don't. But I am happy in what I'm doing now.

In the now famous words of Baz Luhrmann:

"Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your
life… the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they
wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year
olds I know still don’t."

Growing up I wanted to be a soldier, just like my dad and I joined the army straight out of school. At 16 it wasn't the right time so I left. I joined again later in my teens as a Royal Marine. If all had gone to plan I'd have been retired from that 9 years ago after 22 years service, had I been able to stay after my big accident.

Fast forward to 2011 and I'm now general manager of a Kawasaki dealership... it's all I ever wanted and needed in a job, but it took a damn long time to find the right kind of job to suit me. Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever put myself in this job or anything like it when I was a schoolkid.

[Searley]

Taller! LOL :lol:

I wanted to be a racing driver. I raced RC cars in my teens and proper loved it. By the time I turned 17, I was just about good enough to make the british team, but then I got my driving licence and quit racing RC cars.

At the time I never actually believed I could race 'real' cars, I had no idea where or how to start and sadly my parents never encouraged me (probably because they knew it would cost lots of dollar!).

I've pretty much always done factory or customer service type jobs. I never really felt settled in any of them and I'm still not happy in my current job where I calibrate electricity meters (Zzzz...). I would love to find a job in motorsport, but with a lack of qualifications/experience in that trade and being 37 I doubt that will happen.

I'm hoping to finally start racing next year though, so better late than never :D

[andrewsmith]

I didn't

I do and Don't know what I want to do, even after spend 5 year at uni
I'm qualified in something that I find easy and would do well in, but I can't get a directly related job in my field

[Reeder]

Clearly wasn't English you spent so long at uni studying ;)

Love you Smithers xx

[andrewsmith]

Clearly wasn't English you spent so long at uni studying ;)

Love you Smithers xx

It wasn't

The English, Sports and Human sciences we told in no uncertain terms to f*** off, when they said their course was hard (they do 8- 15 hours of lectures/ seminars, we did 16- 30 each week) or the p*** taking was taken to offensive and upsetting levels (Architects seemed to get this treatment from the whole of Built environment school :rolleyes:)

I did Building Surveying before anyone asks (and no it ain't being a estate agent *spits*)

[DJFridge]

Long distance lorry driver - when I was very young. It sounded exciting
Guitar God - had the hair but not the ability. Still have the guitar though!
Architect - had to drop art at school so that went out the window
Civil Engineer - next best thing I figured, so I went to Uni and got a degree. And then learned to despair of architects during 15 months on site
I'm now a salesman, which I had never considered for the first 20 odd years of my life but I really enjoy. I still despair of architects mind you.

[andrewsmith]

Long distance lorry driver - when I was very young. It sounded exciting
Guitar God - had the hair but not the ability. Still have the guitar though!
Architect - had to drop art at school so that went out the window
Civil Engineer - next best thing I figured, so I went to Uni and got a degree. And then learned to despair of architects during 15 months on site
I'm now a salesman, which I had never considered for the first 20 odd years of my life but I really enjoy. I still despair of architects mind you.

So you were a NO man like me then?

[DJFridge]

So you were a NO man like me then?

Eh?

[andrewsmith]

Eh?

Should have explained that bit clearer (quite), did you not used to say 'no' a lot to the Architect(s) in meetings when they were asking for the ridiculous.

[Ch00]

I wanted to be a infant school teacher or a cop. Left college and did a few jobs then joined the Police.

[Holdup]

I wanted to be and still want to be a police officer

Applied last year to volunteer but was unsuccessful and will be reapplying next year once i settle into my new job a bit more after having 3 different jobs this year!

[Ch00]

I wanted to be and still want to be a police officer

Applied last year to volunteer but was unsuccessful and will be reapplying next year once i settle into my new job a bit more after having 3 different jobs this year!

Based on on your location Kent or Met?

[Fruity-ya-ya]

A dustman.

I was only 4.
Me too!

I also wanted to be:

Spiderman (self explanatory).

A tap dancing doctor (no idea where that one came from).

Buck Rogers (yes, a strange child).

An artificer in the navy (firing chaff from the cannons, again not certain of the origin of that idea).

An artist (couldn't workout how to start out so ended up chasing girls, shooting pool and underage everything else that goes with early teenage hormones).

A singer/guitar legend - managed to be in a band with my mates from school and enjoyed it loads but begun working and life got in the way a little too much.

A policeman (applied at 18 and got told to try again after getting some life experience - got some and thought better of it).

Now I'm a grown up man bloke and quite like the idea of being a bin man.

Perhaps kids know more than us grown ups think ;)

[squirrel_hunter]

A princess

Its strange how things turn out, what with Wideboy wanting to be the same when he grows up.

[myfirstsv]

Peter Pan. And at 55 I still do

[Biker Biggles]

A killer-whale trainer.

I knew one of them.She said the pay was carp and got a "proper" job.Less than a year later she got offered the old job back in some boring place like California or Hawai or Rio.:cool:Off she went.:D

[Biker Biggles]

I wanted to see the world so I went and joined the merchant navy.Good fun while it lasted.

[Stenno]

I wanted to join the fuzz but I have a phobia of wearing anything on my head so gave up on the idea in the end.

[Jayneflakes]

At school I thought engineering would be fun, but to do it I needed maths. After two years I realised that Maths was beyond me, so swapped to science. Got me a Science degree, trained as a teacher and now I care for disabled adults.

[Berlin]

Marine biologist...

Couldn't be further from what I do...

[G]

I wanted to be a vet, I even did some work experience in a practice.

Then I got heavily into sport (canoe slalom) and thought I'd probably do that for the ready of my life, so just plodded along at school doing enough to get by, except rarely anyone does sport full time and you need to do well at school to be a vet.

I've not done bad though and enjoy my current job.

[Specialone]

Fireman, this was the one I mostly went on about.

But also liked to be...
Archaeologist, had a metal detector for Xmas, still find this interesting tbh.

Policeman

Gunner in the army

Helicopter pilot

Racing car driver

Sam foxes underwear :)

[Reeder]

I wanted to join the fuzz but I have a phobia of wearing anything on my head so gave up on the idea in the end.

So you thought you'd ride a motorbike instead? :confused:


:p

[fizzwheel]

Keithd

[Drew Carey]

A dustman.

I was only 4.

I wanted to drive the truck and press the buttons on the back.

+1......because when I was little I thought it was so cool seeing them ride on the back of the truck, hanging on.

[andrewsmith]

Keithd

haha

was only a matter of time before it was said

[Paul the 6th]

I wanted to be a policeman. I did not become one. Shame, I'd be retiring in 4 years time instead of the 21 I have left!


Yeah for some reason as kid I really wanted to be in the armed police... too many police academy films lol.

Always did drawings, doodles, art, pictures and stuff with computers when I was growing up, so wanted to be a designer of some sort. Then when I was 13 I discovered cooking and wanted to be a chef. Over a year I spoke to lots of chefs who advised it was a very anti social profession and great if you hate weekends/evenings at home. Then when I was 14/15 I chose my options as graphic design, art and I.C.T. which firmly fixed me on the path of doing something design based with computers...

Here I am 10 years later wishing I was paid to race bikes lol. We never grow up, we just grow old.

[minimorecambe]

Its strange how things turn out, what with Wideboy wanting to be the same when he grows up.

At least we want the same things :-?

A dustman.

I was only 4.

I wanted to drive the truck and press the buttons on the back.

My friend wanted to be a dustman because he thought they only worked one day a week.




I always wanted to be a nursery nurse. I did the training and worked as a nursery nurse for a while, then I realised I don't like children.

I'm now doing what I want to do :)

[Essex of Essex]

From a very young age I wanted to be a pilot, I have been flying for the airline for nearly 23 years and I still smile every day I get into an aircraft:D I consider myself to be a very lucky man :thumbsup:

[startrek.steve]

At school I thought engineering would be fun, but to do it I needed maths. After two years I realised that Maths was beyond me, so swapped to science. Got me a Science degree, trained as a teacher and now I care for disabled adults.

I thought you wanted to be a man Jayne!
(Only kidding! before the PC police come after me!)

Steve

[Milky Bar Kid]

It varied. I wanted to be a cop, teacher or psychologist....

[carelesschucca]

I can't remember wanting to be anything I was quite happy just being a kid, and I suppose I still am!!!

[DJFridge]

Should have explained that bit clearer (quite), did you not used to say 'no' a lot to the Architect(s) in meetings when they were asking for the ridiculous.

"Yes that stainless steel crowd barrier looks lovely, but if you want the base that shape we won't be able to put the re-bar cage in. Do you know what happens to a cast concrete balcony if nobody's put any reinforcement in it? No? Why don't you sit in the corner and have a think about it then."

D'you mean that sort of NO?!

Me too!

I also wanted to be:

Spiderman (self explanatory).

I wouldn't worry, when our eldest was first at infant school, the teacher asked the what do you want to be question and he replied "A spider".

Sam foxes underwear :)

:notworthy:

[andrewsmith]

"Yes that stainless steel crowd barrier looks lovely, but if you want the base that shape we won't be able to put the re-bar cage in. Do you know what happens to a cast concrete balcony if nobody's put any reinforcement in it? No? Why don't you sit in the corner and have a think about it then."

D'you mean that sort of NO?!

Yep
Pretty much sums an architect up too!

[Bibio]

never gave it a thought what i wanted to be/do as a kid apart from run arround with the mates and get up to mischief.

final year at high school and was sent off to do animal technology and microbiology at collage.

next came sheet metal working and welding at collage.

first job was a cobbler.

took a cppl years out and became a complete stoner/drunk/layabout.

second job was soft furnishings with different company's.

decided to take a career change and be a smithy (best job ever).

decided to go to collage and do computing which led to an hnc in networking while there i gained some other certs such as ccna and a few microsoft and linux. then off to uni for a bsc in networking, got bored with that so switched to embedded computer systems. wife fell ill near the end of the degree so now stuck in the house as her personal slave.

so now you know my life history :rolleyes:

[Holdup]

Based on on your location Kent or Met?

I applied to Kent and that would also be my preferred location

[Reeder]

never gave it a thought what i wanted to be/do as a kid apart from run arround with the mates and get up to mischief.

final year at high school and was sent off to do animal technology and microbiology at collage.

next came sheet metal working and welding at collage.

first job was a cobbler.

took a cppl years out and became a complete stoner/drunk/layabout.

second job was soft furnishings with different company's.

decided to take a career change and be a smithy (best job ever).

decided to go to collage and do computing which led to an hnc in networking while there i gained some other certs such as ccna and a few microsoft and linux. then off to uni for a bsc in networking, got bored with that so switched to embedded computer systems. wife fell ill near the end of the degree so now stuck in the house as her personal slave.

so now you know my life history :rolleyes:


And we still love you :D takes a top guy to care for someone full time. You sir are a hero.

[Bluepete]

I wanted to fly.

Anything, I just wanted to be a pilot.

Nearest I got was a 330 on the limiter...

Then again, after hitting 40, I find I am planning more and more.

Paragliding is flying.

It'll do.

Pete ;)

[Bluepete]

It varied. I wanted to be a cop, teacher or psychologist....


Just spotted this one,

So you became a Cop so you could practice all three eh?

Plus, varied qualifications in social working, parenting and mult-tasking whilst bullsh1tting the bosses!

Pete ;)

PS,

Sorry RH,

You do get the truth "hidden" from you occasonally. Plausible deniability 'n all!

[Mr Speirs]

From a very young age I wanted to be a pilot, I have been flying for the airline for nearly 23 years and I still smile every day I get into an aircraft:D I consider myself to be a very lucky man :thumbsup:

Jealous!! Wish I could just afford to fly for fun.
Expensive game.

[Dave20046]

If I remember correctly either a copper,taz of Tazmania,a lock smith or an undercover cop who teaches kindergarten.

[Amadeus]

I was very lucky that soon after getting a ZX81 I knew I wanted to be a computer programmer, which I have become.
I'm now paid to do what I do in my spare time. Compared to a lot of people who consider their job a chore, I'm very lucky.

[Lozzo]

Compared to a lot of people who consider their job a chore, I'm very lucky.

+1

Managing a motorcycle dealership is basically doing exactly what I was doing when I was on the dole in my early 20s. I sit around a Kawasaki shop talking bollox about bikes all day, only nowadays I get a bit more than 26 quid a week for doing so.

[Bluepete]

Compared to a lot of people who consider their job a chore, I'm very lucky.

+2.

Love the job, hate the bureaucracy.

Pete ;)

[Amadeus]

+1

+2.

Do you guys ever worry that you'll find you've immersed yourself in your job too much and by doing so, you've spoiled your hobby? I guess (like me) you've been doing it for a long time so it's probably unlikely to happen after all this time?

[Ed]

Train driver. This would be 1968/1969:D

[Bluepete]

Do you guys ever worry that you'll find you've immersed yourself in your job too much and by doing so, you've spoiled your hobby? I guess (like me) you've been doing it for a long time so it's probably unlikely to happen after all this time?


Can't say for Lozzo, but I only passed my DAS in August 2005.

I went over to the Mach Loop yesterday. 100 mile ride there in the frost, sat on a hill - nothing flew past apart from a raven. 100 miles home. Loved every minute of the riding and the sitting.

Pete ;)

[MisterTommyH]

Wanted to be a pilot in the RAF... nearly got there too.

Glad I didn't quite. Don't think I'd have hacked the initial training.

Edit: that's a lie. In hindsight (having known a few people in the job) it's not such a bad thing I didn't make it. At the time it felt like the end of the world.

[Lozzo]

Can't say for Lozzo, but I only passed my DAS in August 2005.

I went over to the Mach Loop yesterday. 100 mile ride there in the frost, sat on a hill - nothing flew past apart from a raven. 100 miles home. Loved every minute of the riding and the sitting.

Pete ;)

Passed my test in 1979 aged 17... and nope, even after 20 odd years in and out of the bike trade I still don't get that immersed in it and certainly don't get bored by bikes. It does help if you have interests other than bikes in your free time, which I do have.

I did have a slight flutter when I was a sales rep in the bike trade and riding round London for work almost every day, but I soon got over that by using the car my boss had supplied a lot more, rather than my own bike even though it meant seeing fewer people each day.

[xXBADGERXx]

A Total Git



Mission accomplished :)

[Biker Biggles]

Train driver. This would be 1968/1969:D

That would have sorted out your financial worries.You could have been retired by now.I know several guys who went into train driving,some giving up good "respectable"careers and none have regretted it at all.

[The Idle Biker]

I wanted to be Kelly from Charlies Angels so I could touch myself as Kelly. I also wanted to be a footballer, but I now realise the later is impossible.

[Tim in Belgium]

I think it went vet/hotel manager/international banker/doctor, but now I've ended up in upstream FOAM production.

Now I get to play with things like this:

http://www.icis.com/assets/getasset.aspx?ItemID=16770

Pays the bills and bikes, interesting at times and travel about a bit so not bad.

[Richie]

I had my sights set on being a Male Escort..
but the Market wasn't ready at the time..
So I joined the Forces... and had a Ball...
in my first year I bagged off with TRI-SERVICES...RAF. Navy and Army, and then on detachment I Got my gold wings...and did Multi-National Services... NATO ... and that's No BREW.... Bosina was a F***Fest... and then again in Kosovo...

Sorry what was the question again... :)

[Amadeus]

I bagged off with TRI-SERVICES...RAF. Navy and Army

that must have beel a hell of a night. :-)

[Specialone]

I wanted to be Kelly from Charlies Angels so I could touch myself as Kelly. I also wanted to be a footballer, but I now realise the later is impossible.

That's perverted, but she was lovely :)

[Amadeus]

I wanted to be Kelly from Charlies Angels so I could touch myself as Kelly

If you had been, a lot of the members on the forum would also have wanted to touch you.
How to ruin a beautiful dream... :D

[Fizzy Fish]

I think it went vet/hotel manager/international banker/doctor, but now I've ended up in upstream FOAM production.

Now I get to play with things like this:

http://www.icis.com/assets/getasset.aspx?ItemID=16770

Pays the bills and bikes, interesting at times and travel about a bit so not bad.

Upstream foam production sounds like my line of work (market research) - noone has ever heard of it or wanted to do it, but you somehow end up in it and it pays decent so you never leave!

Hate to admit it but it is kinda interesting as well. In other company I would feel nerdy saying that, but I know I'm safe here on the org :lol:

My childhood dream was to be an ambulance driver.

Not because I wnated to help people, but because I wanted to drive really fast with the flashing lights on!

It was only a matter of time before I found bikes... :-D

[Milky Bar Kid]

Just spotted this one,

So you became a Cop so you could practice all three eh?

Plus, varied qualifications in social working, parenting and mult-tasking whilst bullsh1tting the bosses!

Pete ;)

PS,

Sorry RH,

You do get the truth "hidden" from you occasonally. Plausible deniability 'n all!

Lol! Don't think I realised at the time that being a cop requires you to be a jack of all trades, master of none!

[Owenski]

Rich - never had a career in mind as such I just knew I needed to make as much cash as possible.

Ironically if I could do any job right now I'd be a motorcycle copper chucking more than just angry looks at motorists who wind me up.

[Nobbylad]

I always wanted to join the Lamb's Navy :(

[k1ngy SV]

Im still a young one :smt031 but here i go;:safe: At school i wanted to be a bouncer &/or security guard (after see'in how hard it was doing maintance jobs on propertys from working with my dad :smt106) spoke to a fair few people aswell and after being told this and that about it and being older put me off.. not sure why, standing on feet all day looking out for people stealing from shops, being a ar*e and throwing people out of pubs doesnt seem to intrest me!:toss: (I know this isnt all they do)

So.. year 11 comes round and got to start thinking about grades etc for applying for collage bla bla
being in year 11 means il'd be 16 soon.. without a dout i focused on MOTORBIKE'SSS 8-) !!!!
and with amazing ict skills (its the new generation get usest to it! *jokes)
I read up about more or less everything i could read up upon and bought myself a nice tidy 2 stroke fifty and tuned it up :smt074 mauahhaa

now on a course at collage motor vehicle level one.. Iv got my eye on a apprenticeship with suzuki hopefully next year ! ;)

Hopefully, il end up with a job involving motor bikes dont know what yet but its there :rolleyes:

[BernardBikerchick]

i wanted to be a speech therapist as my brother had a stroke and struggled to learn to talk again but turned out couldn't hack a levels so degree was out the question !! but i enjoy my job now handle complaints so i get to help people and hang up on the *****s that shout at me !

[Jayneflakes]

I thought you wanted to be a man Jayne!
(Only kidding! before the PC police come after me!)

Steve

Ewwww, who would want to be a smelly old man? Filthy dirty things, trust me, I dated a few! :smt025

Do you guys ever worry that you'll find you've immersed yourself in your job too much and by doing so, you've spoiled your hobby? I guess (like me) you've been doing it for a long time so it's probably unlikely to happen after all this time?

When I became a Climbing Instructor, I ran a climbing wall, climbed there at the end of my shift and trained there during the day. On my days off from the wall I freelanced with clients from the wall and spent many hours instilling skills in new climbers. Then on my days off, I went climbing for me, climbing harder and harder routes. This was a brilliant life and well worth the time I invested in it. Sadly it messed my body up really badly and I had to quit in the end. I have not climbed since and only rarely miss it. However, knowing that I will never get back up to my e-grade routes, I don't think that I want to climb anymore really. So to answer this one, being totally immersed is great fun until you damage yourself and have to quit.

hang up on the *****s that shout at me !

You are brave, I could never do that, it would leave me emotionally drained at the end of the day. Do you ever want to tell them to Eff off first?

[ChrisSV]

I wanted to be, and still want to be, lots of things.
It started as wanting to be a paleontologist, blame jurassic park, so I set about digging lots of holes in the garden and spending most of the holidays on beaches crawling in caves and on cliffs. However when at school I couldn't stand the subjects required so that fell away.
Also an F1 driver, but family never had the money. However I liked the idea of being very noisey and going very fast :)
Then I wanted to be a structral engineer, but whilst I was interested in all aspects of the job I hated maths at school, because 3/4 i didn't deem nessercary. Shame really as I was quite good, but also lazy.
I'm now doing an apprenticeship in maintenance engineering at a car manufacturer on plastic injection molding machines, which is very good and I enjoy, but since starting I've discovered bikes, welding and other such things. So I'm currently doing courses in mechanics and welding, aided by a good friend, and ex welder at work.
I'm hoping to start a HNC in mechanical engineering next year and next September I'm going back to school and doing A levels that'll hopefully guide me towards an engineering design degree.
So I still don't know what to do, and I still want to be all of the things above, but I think it's gonna have to be engineering based :)

[454697819]

A Marine....

Failing that REME,

I ended up in an office and here I am at 26 as a design manager, its actually enjoyable for the most part, what will i be doing in 10 years.

no idea and right now I don't want to think about it!

[sorebutt]

After playing 'doctors and nurses' I wanted to be a doctor! - Alas My old dad insisted I left school at 15 and pay for my keep - Thus I never even got a further education. Having been mistreated by the sod for many years, the day he had a heart attack neither I nor my sister could bear to call an ambulance..