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I wanted to be a tree surgeon but I'm hopeless with heights. I ended up being a low-grade boffin.
Baileys Bird?Hmmm well when I was 5 or 6, I remember watching some B&W US movie, and it showed the character robbing a supermarket, along with a voiceover of "..and he became a criminal....". It seemed pretty cool (though I can't even remember the actual story or gist of it), so of course I then proceeded to tell my parents I wanted to become a criminal. Never have lived that one down.
I think the first job I ever thought I'd like was bush pilot -there was some tv show (anyone remember it from the 70's?) on where it showed a mustachioed Canuck flying a boat plane into a small log cabin-ish settlement on a pine tree surrounded pristine lake. Sorry, but helicopter pilot from Skippy the bush Kangaroo didn't cut it for me. Anyway, fast forward to a naive clueless 18 year old, and I agree with another poster; the careers "adviser" at my school was worse than useless. I have a vague recollection of doing a questionnaire, and then being told I was suitable for some ludicrous job I knew I wasn't suited for. Fortunately for today's youth, it seems like that has improved greatly thank goodness. But I have to say at 18, I had no clue what I wanted to do! I've ended up in the tech sector more by accident than design.
Having seen simultaneous translators in action a few times, hats off to you! That is a really difficult job. The ones I've seen (same event, a years running) were only allowed 20 mins 'on' before they had to take 20 minute break (they were swapped over for 'fresh' translators).A simultaneous translator French/English. If only I had worked harder, I could be worth a lot more loot than I am now. Ah well, I think I had more fun really.
Having seen simultaneous translators in action a few times, hats off to you! That is a really difficult job. The ones I've seen (same event, a years running) were only allowed 20 mins 'on' before they had to take 20 minute break (they were swapped over for 'fresh' translators).
Baileys Bird?
Hope you were able to train lots of enthusiastic people to take over your good works when you retired.Train driver when I was younger. Then thought the water guard of Customs and Excise looked interesting, but the interview panel decided I was better suited to the Inland Revenue and ultimately ended up "encouraging" offshore fraudsters to pay their dues.