I started out wanting to be a one man band, which is odd since I had no musical ability whatsoever.
Then I wanted to be Doctor Who, then Director General of the BBC. When I realised that might be a little ambitious, I thought being a researcher at the beeb would be nice.
Shortly after that, I decided I wanted to be a barrister. I stuck with that idea for a couple of years, briefly dallying with the idea of going into advertising.
By the time I reached the fifth form, I was pretty much certain that I wanted to be a journalist. So it seemed only natural that my first job on getting kicked out of school was in ... errrrr ... a recording studio.
Since then, I've been a dispatch rider, bricklayer, roof insulation installer, shop assistant, floppy disk salesman, software developer, postman, marketing manager, blameless middle manager and paperback book blurb writer.
These days I run an ad agency.
So yes, I am doing what I wanted to. If only for one week in 1976.
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