ArtetaMagic
Player Valuation: £20m
My knees would fit in well on the treatment table
What did you want to be when you grew up?
- Thread starter Daveysgingerlovechild
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When I was 10 or 11 I wanted to be a Stuntman. I've had a similar amount of injuries through sport but I was never paid for them...
I also recall being told at 16 by a careers advisor at school that if I worked really hard I could be a teacher or a policeman. The working class glass ceiling in full flow to kill ambition and keep us in our place. Now don't get me wrong, they are both respectable jobs, but it still grates that they wanted to cap my future.
I also recall being told at 16 by a careers advisor at school that if I worked really hard I could be a teacher or a policeman. The working class glass ceiling in full flow to kill ambition and keep us in our place. Now don't get me wrong, they are both respectable jobs, but it still grates that they wanted to cap my future.
I just wanted to be a responsible adult.
I'm 71 next month and beginning to doubt that I'll ever reach that goal.
I'm 71 next month and beginning to doubt that I'll ever reach that goal.
Alanbileysfeathercut
Player Valuation: £80m
I was and still am lazy.
Apprenticeships was the go to back then.
So I thought the easiest was painter/decorator.
3 years ,I hated it.
Although when I fished my time proper jobs were thin on the ground.
I have done that on and throughout my working life.
The money wasn't as good as it is now,so it really was the old adage of getting a trade behind you.
I embarrassingly tried for the police cadets at 16,but failed (they discovered I had a father)and tried for the fire service around the age of 19.
Bit of a rant now,the government needs to bring back the old CITB training.
Get kids interested for a year,then a company takes a chance on them to finish their time.
goldfinchmule
Player Valuation: £8m
I was absolutely crap at football so wanted to play for the rs and hold the record for most sendings off and penaltys given against in a derby.
Old Blue 2
Player Valuation: £35m
As a boy in the last year of junior school, I was playing for the first year seniors. Hoped to develop through Liverpool Boys, etc.
I passed the 11+
Went to a school (CAGS) that only did cross-country & rugby!
Did cross-country for 3 years, then rugby for 4 (scrum half).
Wanted to be a history teacher, but, failed my A-levels because I didn't do any homework or much study in 6th Form, as I was already playing in a band in the nightclubs of Liverpool. Only retired from gigging in September 2022.
Late summer '69, started chasing jobs once school finished.
First interview was for the civil service (Social Security) which I took, and then spent nearly 33 years there, before retiring.
So what I ended up doing was a complete step-change from what I originally wanted to do.
I passed the 11+
Went to a school (CAGS) that only did cross-country & rugby!
Did cross-country for 3 years, then rugby for 4 (scrum half).
Wanted to be a history teacher, but, failed my A-levels because I didn't do any homework or much study in 6th Form, as I was already playing in a band in the nightclubs of Liverpool. Only retired from gigging in September 2022.
Late summer '69, started chasing jobs once school finished.
First interview was for the civil service (Social Security) which I took, and then spent nearly 33 years there, before retiring.
So what I ended up doing was a complete step-change from what I originally wanted to do.
Ray Purchase
Player Valuation: £8m
Sexton Blake's new assistant.
A lumberjack.
I wanted to be an Air Hostess when I grew up but the problem was I never grew up so was about 5 inches too short
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