That implies you have a dream.

The rest of us grew in middle-class, were told we were bright, and at 34 still have no idea what we want to be. Great at nothing, competant at most things given a lot of time. Interested in nothing.


... except sitting at home laughing at funny things found on the Internet.

Well, I got to be a professional artist, which is what I wanted. Now I just need to become a world-famous, influential, beloved-and-reviled professional artist.

Low expectations are the key to happiness?

Kuroshin: I'm awake at 2am after having slept less than one hour, and will be on-call for the next 78 hours straight.

You farking tell me.

Even if you were a sex tester with those hours I'd think you had a horrible job. What are you? On patrol in Afghanistan or a firefighter in a forest fire zone?

My childhood dreams? Of course not. My childhood dreams were preposterous.
At some point in mid-adolescence, I began to have dreams that had context in the real world, and I have been able to realize a respectable portion of those dreams.
If we all realized our childhood dreams, we'd have a problem. An entire world consisting of ballerinas, cowboys, princesses and Batmen would be difficult to live in.

WhippingBoy: You seem awfully defensive...

You seem awfully offensive...

I'm glad I didn't do my childhood dream. I wanted to be a hitman.
Problem is the killing part. I can't kill anything that isn't trying to hurt me first or directly feeds me.

Rather than that lofty goal, I hunt unusual objects and sell them for profit.
Looking back, I guess when I was a kid I didn't want to be farked with. Now I live that dream without hurting anything.

/Thanks interwebs!

WhippingBoy: How's that Starbucks job working out for you?

If by "Starbucks job", you mean traveling to interesting places as diverse as Anaheim and Belgium to work in a TV studio or museum or convention center to do something that fascinates the hell out of me so much I'd do it for free but instead do it before a throng of cheering people who ask for autographs afterwards and lets me fly home afterwards with a nice honorarium check so I can slack off for the next couple of months and browbeat stupid basement-dwelling virgins who project their own failings on everybody by accusing them of working for Starbucks, then yes, I have a Starbucks job.

/next...

WhippingBoy: How's that Starbucks job working out for you?

It's kinda funny you say that, my dream has always been to run a cafe. I've been drinking the stuff since I was 8 and can't live without it. One day, I'll have own coffeeshop/roasterie, but it's won't be for a long time.

Psycat: I still haven't been appointed God yet. On the other hand, my desire to be a creative professional of some sort has come more-or-less* true.

*I'm barely making a living at this, but I do have a small and dedicated fan base. And I get to travel to cool places and visit a lot of museums. Whoo, hoo!

You know who else had a small and dedicated fanbase?

/Jerry Sandusky

Childhood dream: to reach adulthood. Fark you, Daily Mail! I'm living the dream. And I had no idea it would be so horrible.

So I can be an astronaut and then become a fireman and marry Anne Margaret and have an orgy with her, Sophia Loren and Barbie Benton?

Not sure if I want to do either one now. lol

Am I just drunk, or is domokun supposed to be in that picture?

I had no idea that so many astronaut, football playing, superstar, millionaire, presidents existed in the world much less Britain.

I'm still holding onto the dream, but as I approach 40 it's looking less and less likely that a profitable career as world-dominating supervillain is in the making.

But fingers are still crossed.

If you achieved all you dreamed for as a child, you didn't dream very big.

I still don't rule the world.....yet.

When I was very young, I wanted to be a cat.


I don't think that is going to happen.

I can't believe I really had a 20% chance of farking cindy crawford. Blew that one.

I've already seen a woman naked. It was all downhill from there.

I wanted to be a mermaid. . . So unlikely.

Although my odds of experiencing a supervolcano is 1 in 10,000 . . .

Somehow, I don't think I'm going to become a starship captain in my lifetime.

/Engage