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  • #21
    Profession without Money?

    I don't know if this topic has been discussed before, so don't be too cruel. When we are little we often come up with dreams of really bizarre professions when we grow up. I once wanted to be an ice-cream “wo”-man, since I loved chocolate ice-cream sold at the cafe in front of our building. Especially on those hot summer days when my mother used to send me down with a pot (kastryulya) to buy some paxazak (ice-cream) for cofe-glyasse . I don't know if any of you remember or know what it is; it's cold coffee mixed with ice cream and it's is the most refreshing drink in the summer.

    Later I wanted to be a dancer, a tennis player, and later pretty seriously a theater actress since I was attending a drama school for a long time. Some time later I decided to become a journalist for some travel magazine. However my father convinced me that my bad habit of tardiness would damage my chances of becoming a good journalist. That was dumb, but at that time I took him seriously. Currently I've become interested in Computers and Networking. So I decided to become a Systems Librarian, basically merging my love for literature and technology.

    However, I've always wondered, what would I want to do if the money issue was not involved at all. Would I still want to be involved in computers, or would I simply travel around the world and write articles about the life in other countries. Or perhaps I would have loved to be an architect or a Buddhist Monk.

    What about you? What profession have you chosen and why? What were some of the professions you've thought of when you were young? What would you do if money wasn't involved?

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    • #22
      Originally posted by anileve
      Especially on those hot summer days when my mother used to send me down with a pot (kastryulya) to buy some paxazak (ice-cream) for cofe-glyasse . I don't know if any of you remember or know what it is; it's cold coffee mixed with ice cream and it's is the most refreshing drink in the summer.
      Please don't kill me Eve, for I must correct you one more time (unless I'm wrong) . It's "paxpaghak", not "paxazak".

      And I LOVE cofe-glyasse...I made it just the other day. Except I pour the boiling hot coffee right on the ice cream, so it melts some of it.

      As for your thread, yes, we've made one before, but I won't be too cruel since you asked so nicely, haha. Here it is . But anyway, as I said before, when I was little, I wanted to be either a cop or a pilot, hehehe. Such a little tomboy I was.
      Last edited by sSsflamesSs; 05-23-2004, 03:16 PM.

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      • #23
        PILOT ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've always loved flying, in fact I loved sitting on top of my roof smoking and watching the planes go buy with their flickering light. Although I think I would get carried away with flying tricks.

        So what is your current choice and why did you decide on it?

        Can you find your thread and maybe we can merge the two, since we have new members? Paxpaxak is the right way to sMell it! Thanks dear Flaming Wise Ass. By the way, another awesome thing to have in the summer is okroshka! Cold and cucumbery!

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        • #24
          Your choices were: a dancer, a tennis player, an actress, a pilot, a cop....
          When I was little, I wanted to become something BORING like a doctor, or a teacher. What was my little head thinking?

          Anileve, she did find the thread. hehe. See...
          Originally posted by sSsflamesSs
          I see...

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          • #25
            Originally posted by anileve
            PILOT ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've always loved flying, in fact I loved sitting on top of my roof smoking and watching the planes go buy with their flickering light. Although I think I would get carried away with flying tricks.

            So what is your current choice and why did you decide on it?

            Can you find your thread and maybe we can merge the two, since we have new members? Paxpaxak is the right way to sMell it! Thanks dear Flaming Wise Ass. By the way, another awesome thing to have in the summer is okroshka! Cold and cucumbery!
            I added the link for the thread in my previous post.

            As far as why I want to be a doctor...

            I was about 7 at the time, and my cousins and I found a wounded "varobushek", hehehe. I remember how I had this huge desire to heal it, so that's exactly what I tried to do. We made a little house for it and brought it food and water and stuff for about a week. One day we came to check up on it, and either it had flown away, or become lunch for the resident cat, hahaha. In any event, it was this that made me realize that being a doctor would be cool. Oh, and my idol (my grandma) is also a doc, so I want to follow in her footsteps and make her proud, although the journey sure is difficult (emotionally).

            PS I LOVE OKROSHKA!!! YUMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!

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            • #26
              Originally posted by sSsflamesSs
              I added the link for the thread in my previous post.

              As far as why I want to be a doctor...

              I was about 7 at the time, and my cousins and I found a wounded "varobushek", hehehe. I remember how I had this huge desire to heal it, so that's exactly what I tried to do. We made a little house for it and brought it food and water and stuff for about a week. One day we came to check up on it, and either it had flown away, or become lunch for the resident cat, hahaha. In any event, it was this that made me realize that being a doctor would be cool. Oh, and my idol (my grandma) is also a doc, so I want to follow in her footsteps and make her proud, although the journey sure is difficult (emotionally).

              PS I LOVE OKROSHKA!!! YUMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!
              Interesting....My experience was similar to yours, but impacted me otherwise. I saved a pigeon, who was wounded with a slingshot (nasty baki boys, I had to yell at them and shoo them away). I nurtured it, it got better and healthier, after 3 weeks of improvement we found him feet up and lifeless. I decided that the last thing I needed to be is a doctor, unless I chose to follow in the steps of Dr. Kevorkian.

              PS. Tahn kicks ass as well!

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              • #27
                I wanted to either be a paleontologist or an aerospace engineer.

                At this point I'll probably be a scientist, doctor, or small-time entrepreneur. I'll write when I'm older and have more time.

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                • #28
                  I wanted to be an astronaut or an entomologist (yes, I love bugs). I realized that flying into space requires perfect vision so that one's down the potty. I'm not sure about entomology but Loser and our biology professor made it sound pretty nice. I'm doing Microbiology now with the possibility of medical school.

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                  • #29
                    Supposedly entomologists are in demand. They're needed by agriculture to help find better ways of ridding crops of pests, and they're in short supply. From what I've heard, they can almost name their own price.

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                    • #30
                      I always wanted to be a cop when I was little. There was just something about them..they looked so powerful. Then as I grew I figured I'd rather be a detective cause I loved reading all those crime sloving books. Then I matured and figured that being a detective is kinda boring especially if your living in a small town and I wanted to travel the world so I figured I'd be a CIA agent. Then I realized that my entire life I have been wanting to be a person who would probably be put in a situation where I would have to shoot and even kill someone, and the idea of killing someone just didnt fit me at all. So I thought I could go into criminology, you get to work at the crime scene yet you never have to really deal with having to kill anybody. But then I realized that this profession needed a lot of science courses and I really was not up to any more Chem or Bio. Now I'm majoring in Political Science, but I dont exactly want to be a lawyer, thinking more of diplomacy..that way I can still travel. But at the rate I'm going, I just might become a mortician.

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