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Ymichael14

Ymichael14

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TelfordGuy said:
What would have been your profession if you had followed your childhood dreams ?

I always wanted to be a a engineer on fighter planes in the RAF but being colour blind put pay to that
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I assume I am missing something in the translation. The US probably has a different name for an engineer.
What does an engineer on a fighter plane do?
I thought they only had a pilot.
 
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Lips_Pearls

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Ymichael14 said:
Ok. Got it.
I belive we call them mechanics, same as an automobile mechanic.
Engineer would be the guy that designed the plane.
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You are almost correct. To help here, it’s actually a technician. Engineers design them, technicians fix them. We call them fairies here. ??

As for me, I wanted to achieve 3 things. I managed one, so not too bad. The other two, looking back, were pie in the sky.
 
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AlmeriaH

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TelfordGuy said:
What would have been your profession if you had followed your childhood dreams ?

I always wanted to be a a engineer on fighter planes in the RAF but being colour blind put pay to that
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As a very young child, I wanted to be a train driver (I'm afraid that at my age, that means steam engines). My dreams were utterly shattered by the realisation that, actually, Thomas the Tank Engine didn't have a driver, and much less needed one. Not ony that, he spent most of his time talking to a fat controller. So really, I grew up without any future desires for any profession or labour. I drifted into the RAF (probably the best career move of my life) and became a fairy (see Lips_Pearls comment above) then a computer technician, then specialist, then management (the latter being the biggest mistake of my career). Then I retired early (2nd best career move) and I'm now a qualified English teacher, working if and when I feel like it (which is rarely).
 
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AlmeriaH

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DebE said:
I'd always dreamed of being a professional ice-skater (but couldn't quite grasp the concept of skating backwards)?
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I could never quite get the hang of ice skating, my face or the back of my head seemed to be in constant contact with the ice, which is not how everyone else seemed to be doing it. Ice is slippery stuff. It's hard to stand up on it. So you put skates on, which enable you to glide more easily over what we already know is slippery stuff. Hmmmmm. Doesn't work for me...
 
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AlmeriaH

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AlmeriaH said:
As a very young child, I wanted to be a train driver (I'm afraid that at my age, that means steam engines). My dreams were utterly shattered by the realisation that, actually, Thomas the Tank Engine didn't have a driver, and much less needed one. Not only that, he spent most of his time talking to a fat controller. So really, I grew up without any future desires for any profession or labour. I drifted into the RAF (probably the best career move of my life) and became a fairy (see Lips_Pearls comment above) then a computer technician, then specialist, then management (the latter being the biggest mistake of my career). Then I retired early (2nd best career move) and I'm now a qualified English teacher, working if and when I feel like it (which is rarely).
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I've just realised that maybe there was something there after all! Like Thomas, I spent most of my married life talking to erm..... a larger-sized controller, too!
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I really thought hard about whether or not to post this, but hey ho, what the hell... I hope I don't get banned ?
 
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Ymichael14

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AlmeriaH said:
As a very young child, I wanted to be a train driver (I'm afraid that at my age, that means steam engines). My dreams were utterly shattered by the realisation that, actually, Thomas the Tank Engine didn't have a driver, and much less needed one. Not ony that, he spent most of his time talking to a fat controller. So really, I grew up without any future desires for any profession or labour. I drifted into the RAF (probably the best career move of my life) and became a fairy (see Lips_Pearls comment above) then a computer technician, then specialist, then management (the latter being the biggest mistake of my career). Then I retired early (2nd best career move) and I'm now a qualified English teacher, working if and when I feel like it (which is rarely).
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Steam engines?
Even I'm not old enough to remember steam.
Unless they stayed around a lot longer in the UK.
 
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