Are you...
 

....what you wanted to be before you left school/grew up

Any astronaughts? Train drivers? Firemen etc etc

Retained Firefighter.......... Looking to go full time.

I wanted to be an engineer in the Navy. Did one year of MechEng at uni but didn't like it. Oh and the fact that i had Asthma kind of let me down too. :roll:
Now i'm head of ladies tailoring at Ede and Ravenscroft in the city and loving it. Get free made to measure suits every 6 months too. :D

Wanted to be a Harrier pilot....

ended up...working ON planes for 12yrs..!

Now...running around the countryside after dogs..oh and artist...

don't really know what went wrong....
:smt017

I grew up in the sixties in a village, but whenever I got taken to a town it seemed they were knocking buildings down using a crane swinging a big ball - and that's what I dreamed of doing when I grew up.

yep, working in an office for a firm that sells packaging was always a dream of mine. what schoolboy hasn't dreamt of such a career?

Wanted to be a programmer since my ZX81. That's what I do. Without the ZX81.

didn't know then, still don't know!

my brother's mate wanted to drive a digger, Fred Flintstone-style, when he grew up. that's what he does now (with a modern machine rather than a reluctant dinosaur :lol: )

Isaac changes his mind from minute to minute.

I did retained for 7 years...tried to go full time but being retained held me back..imho.
Wiltshire fire brigade would get 200 people applying for 1 vacancy yet they couldnt fill all retained posts...so it was a case of being stuck between the proverbial rock and hard face.

Good luck in your quest though, its a great job if you can get in :D

As for my chosen profession...always wanted to be a mountaineer after climbing up quarry's in my youth... :shock:

Now a Prototype/Validation Manager for Avon Automotive...not quite Chris Bonnington :D

I wanted to be a serial criminal. I was well on my way to my chosen path of career when the Judge made me join the Army.

I think, looking back, the Judge had a better idea than the one that I had chosen.

A small true fact in the life of BigApe. :lol: