What Were Your Ambitions?

[FredPuli43]

Or should I say dreams? Anyway, at 66, I've decided that I'll never ride a Derby winner,play for the Harlem Globetrotters, become a justice of the Supreme Court, or compose my first symphony (be fair, Schumann was over 40 when he wrote his).

What youthful ambitions did you have? And did you get close to achieving any?

[Jeza]

To get away from my selfish father. Yes I achieved, but only for 20 odd years. I then had to go back when he became ill.

I don't think that was an answer you were looking for Fred.

[ummmm]

I've never been ambitious.

[jim360]

My main ambition of going to Cambridge to study physics has worked out, but I had a lot of other part-goals that never got fulfilled. When I was younger, I would try several different sports out, including tennis, badminton and cricket, and I did enjoy them and vaguely wanted to become good, but they ended up going nowhere. Also chess, a game that I still play but not nearly enough -- while I was a fairly promising junior, University got in the way, even though it shouldn't have really.

So the main ambition has worked out, but quite a few other things fell by the wayside. Oh well.

[ELVIS68]

As a kid I wanted to be a footballer, never happened

As a teen I wanted to be in a job that payed big money, never happened

As a twentysomething, I wanted a fast car, never happened

As a thirtysomething, I wanted a wife and kids and a house in the country..Bingo!
As a fortysomething..ahh feck it, I'm happy with what I've got

[Wharton]

I would have loved to have been a concert pianist, I love piano music, but with hands like Belfast hams, I could hardly get the lid up.

[cupid04]

I wish I'd had a normal childhood. And I wish I wasn't so damn sensitive and take everything so personal.

[ummmm]

I was going to say upbringing plays a big part in ambition. It's easy to be ambitious when you have a loving supportive family behind you.

[piggynose]

i wanted a wife+kids by the age of 30, never happened, i'm 54 now.
I wanted to be able to dance salsa, after 4 years of trying, had to admit defeat.
I wanted a job i really like. Still looking for it.
I wanted to run a marathon, but struggle to do 10 miles, so no chance.
lots of other things never realised.

[netibiza]

I wanted to be a nun until I read that they got eaten sometimes, then I wanted to be either an electrician or a motor mechanic, but alas in my times they were unheard of for young ladeees.

[emmie]

dancer like Fred Astaire, and a journalist,

[maggiebee]

I wanted to marry Elvis. Was head over heels in love with him.

Also wanted to go to Uni - achieved this aged 36.

[Octavius]

To be great britain champion and then world champion.

Did the first 3 times, and the second once before the age of 15.

[Connemmara]

I wished I had have been famous pianist or dancer - now I would be lucky to be able to cripple onto the stage to do either LOL - am still learning the ole piano tho - am onto 3 rd lesson and am nearly completing London Bridge is Falling Down AND using two hands whoopee. LOL

[grasscarp]

I didnt really have any, other than to join the BBC which I did and stayed there for ten years. Later kind of got sucked in to aviation and still there 25+ years later.

[grasscarp]

champion of what Octavius?

[Frank97]

When I was about 9 I wanted to be an Astronaut, until my teacher told me that I was being silly and to aim for something else, seem to have spent the rest of my life no being sure what I wanted to do after that, thanks Miss!

[carrot99]

"I wanted to be a nun until I read that they got eaten sometimes,"

neti who eats nuns?

[Eve]

I was wondering that too! I achieved a lot early on though wasn't particularly ambitious. I switched to a law degree as a challenge and did that, law school, qualified as a solicitor and made partner.

Now though I'd just like to be able to get back to some kind of a normal life, beat the arthritis into some kind of submission to let me be able to manage more than struggle working in an easy job on much less money, be more mobile and less tired and able to be able to get out in the evenings with friends and on days out and just have more of a life, maybe more chance of finding a partner and be in a position to thing about being able to have a family.

[woofgang]

travel, and I did, have a dog and we have had a succession of them.

[andy-hughes]

I wanted to be a journalist - and i am in my spare time.

I used to think I wanted to work on a daily paper, but I wouldn't do that now - I am wonderfully happy as a music writer, I find it fulfilling.