I don’t care about the kids under 30. The funnier the better, and the older you are the more I want to know: what would you like to be when you grow up?
Achievable goals fall short of true potential.

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    I’m 35 and when I grow up I want to be psychotherapist. However, I hate university. Fun!

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    If I grow up, I failed. 43 years and counting, I’m still on the winning path. Aged? Yes. Matured? A bit. Grew up? Hell no.

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    I want to run a nice and simple wine bar where wine enthusiasts can get an affordable glass of wine based on my data driven recommendations. I want the place to be a chill hang with music, comfy seats and sandwiches and stuff.

    If I had the money I wouldn’t even need it to be profitable.

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      That sounds cool. Have new people entering taste 3-5 wines and score them. Based on that they get a recommendation. Score that to further refine the tasting profile. When they return they can just enter a code or scan a card from last time to pick up their profile to keep evolving it.

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        Yeah I personally don’t like you need an account for everything and data gathering and all but this can be completely anonymous, no marketing, no e-mail phone number anything required.

        Maybe link it to your Vivino but only if you want.

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      The older i get the more i wish for a non-capitalist community driven utopia. Fuck profit, i just want peace and a place to hang out

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    A scientist. It’s never going to happen because I’m 72. At school I was pushed into languages, history etc because I wasn’t good at maths. I was good at general science though, especially chemistry, and I enjoyed it.

    After I retired I took up beekeeping and have lately rediscovered my love of science. I have two microscopes and am studying bee anatomy and pollen identification. There’s an exam later in the year for a certificate that will open further areas of study, but I doubt my skills are up to the challenge (eg dissecting a bee in front of the examiner). However, I am really enjoying the whole process of making slides and examining them. I would have loved doing this as a job.

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    I want to build a Dyson sphere and use the energy to move the entire solar system to a place where our dying star can be replaced.

    How’s that for achievable goals?

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    I want to be a great parent, and be able to make games and/or music for a living - dream I shall!

    Short of that, I want to have a pet penguin and live in a quirky house by the sea like a character in some kids book, that sounds excellent.

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    So many things. Sometimes I feel like going into politics, because everything there is so crazy. I take this as a sign that my brain is fried from too many meetings.

    It would be cool to do a startup making something cool, but honestly I don’t want to put in the extra hours and I don’t want to risk the comfortable lifestyle my current job provides.

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    Well, I am doing pretty well for myself in a combination of IT, geophysics, and offshore/ship stuff… but when things aren’t going my way at work I still conclude that it’s t8me to get the necessary licenses to finally become a crane driver.

    I’ve driven a lot of cranes (ships cranes, mostly), but I’m talking about those huge tower cranes - chilling alone at the top, and once in a while someone calls you on the radio, needing something lifted from A to B. Seems chill as fuck, and no searoll to worry about either.

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    Retired, so I finally have time to finish the dozens of personal projects that I’ve started in my first 36 years.