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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

healthy and still able to think enough to make some AWESOME SHIT

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I just want to stop feeling imposter syndrome. I'm nearing 50, at work everyone seems to think I am one of the most competent people they have met in my field. I get the hard problems, get dragged into lots of projects as a technical consultant. And yet internally, I forever feel like I'm "faking it until I make it". Like I'm one question away from being unmasked as a kid playing at knowing what I am doing. Consciously, I know I am not and that I'm actually pretty good at this. But, every time I get a meeting request from my boss, I still get a moment of panic thinking, "this is it, I'm about to be fired". That's what I want from "growing up", to just not feel that feeling constantly.

Also, I want to be independently wealthy when I grow up. Fuck this whole work thing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I would have that. If not for the fact that no one around me seems to have any clue what's going on (either). You don't have to be perfect, no one is. Everyone knows no one is. But compared to the people around you, who are also putting up facades, maybe you're actually doing a pretty good job?

[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You will only start new ones, never finish the old ones

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

Shush, let an old man dream.

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Happiness is a journey, not a destination -Albert Einstein

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Who would listen to him? He wouldn't know if he was coming or going without observing red-shift or blue-shift.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Either to be a rockstar or a game developer or an author / journalist.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Yup, I wanna be an author or a journalist as well.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

So far I've mostly just aged. I'd like to be a good dad to my upcoming child.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

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.

[โ€“] HobbitFoot 7 points 1 day ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Since I'd be cremated, probably some coral reef

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Language designer for a widely used programming language. Basically I want to be Brian Goetz

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

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.

Howโ€™s that for achievable goals?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Young again

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Millwright specializing in water powered mills or a forest ranger.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I would like to be with two chicks at the same time. Other than that, nothing. I want to be happy and I think that would make me pretty happy for quite awhile.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

What's stopping you? No money? :D