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So my nephew is sleeping over today and he asked a neat question.
When did you realize you knew what you wanted to do with your life, when did you realize you loved Poetry or Art or Music or Film or Whatever.

― anthony, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This is gonna sound really corny, but I decided that I wanted to be a lawyer after watching To Kill a Mockingbird and Judgment at Nuremberg. I had a brief, really idealistic period when I wanted to be a Public Defender. Odd, because I got my worst law school grade in Criminal Law, generally hate anything that has to do with criminal law, and I don't prosecute or do criminal defense work.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I remember a day when I realised I didn't fit in in society, I didn't want to, I wasn't gonna try to, I was never gonna amount to anything, I didn't care. I was 11 or 12.

― duane, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

...& attending an exclusive boys' boarding school.

― duane, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was in grade nine and was in New York. We went to MoMA. Up to that point i liked art. Our family enxourged being well educated in the humanities. but the art i liked was the pretty paintings. Back to MoMA. I walked in and saw a Bruce Nauman exhibit. It was loud, moved , had video and neon. It had neon ( orgies, Koan lists, People having their eyes poked out, orgies). polyutherane ( body casts) , video ( clowns masterbating), video loops of pure noise, Bronze Plaques meant to be eaten by trees. Litrealazations of cheap puns and cliches. It was the most shocking Alice in Wonderland thing . It meant art could be sexy, noisy , new thing. The fact that art could be conceptually intellectual and naughty at the same time. I wanted my hands in that !

― anthony, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sadly most is due to my parents. I work in the same field as them. With movies it was cause my parents were always working. Television was there. My parents not. Music? Because my dad was ALWAYS playing his records. i blame the obsession with Bukowksi on an alcoholic and junkie friend sleeping in the same bed as me. I was ten, I was fascinated.

― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I haven't worked out what I want to do with my life yet.

― Tom, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mine was a negative experience that shocked me into realising what I wanted to do. I was in hospital (long story) and a local theatre company put on this performance of the musical "Fame" for the inmates, I mean, patients. I remember, as a 15 year old punk, being so utterly shocked and horrified, not just by how bad the performances were, but how clumbsily and badly it was portraying all the things going through my head at the point. I just wanted to scream "wanting to be an artist or a musician is not like that!!!" As soon as I was dicharged, I took my life savings and bought a cheap crappy bass. I joined a local all girl punk band a few weeks later. I never looked back.

― Kate the Saint, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I suppose it's an interesting question. I don't really have *the* moment. Always have been a bit of dreamy child, still am at 30 most of the time. But I think seeing Fantasia at age 5 or 6 sort of helped things along.

― Omar, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually come to think of it if anyone has any idea of what I should do with my life I'd be happy to hear it.

― Tom, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Be a pirate!

― duane, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Be a pickaninnie!

― AP, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A Pilot?

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Be a porn and radical-media mogul

― mark s, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Omar, it wasn't videogames that caused you to obsess over DJ Assault? Hmmmm.

― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nathalie (who clearly should be my therapist): you are right of course. I thought it all wnet back to Beethoven's Pastoral featuring Greek Mythology. But yes the secret ingredient is my dad pulling me upwards so I could reach the periscope on the Seawolf arcade around '76. The moment Techno was born.

― Omar, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, I have lots of vague ideas about what I'd like to do with my life, most of them lead to early retirement and an easy life. My primary objective is, I'm afraid, taking it easy. So, like 80% of the human race I don't know what to do.

― jel, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think Tom should be a screenplay writer.

I haven't worked out what I'm going to do either. I'm probably going to end up a military wife with 4 kids who shoves her head in the oven after 10 years of it. Either that or a famous rich person.

― Ally, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

[Cross-referenced from Insomnia/Oompas thread.] Having consulted dictionary, wish to RETRACT ABOVE USAGE of wurd "pickaninnie". Doy!! And change answer to "Be a penguin!"

― AP, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There wasn't one point where I realized I "loved Poetry or Art or Music or Film or Whatever", I always have done, which is why I've never had time for sport of any kind. I was the quiet kid at school who'd be reading whilst everyone else was out playing football. Later, it helped to have a nemesis, who was also one of my best friends until I dumped them all in 1996. He was alright providing you didn't get him on certain topics (the politics section of that site is a must-read), and his money fetish always disturbed me. Ewww.

― DG, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You should be a wino, Tom.

― Josh, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Should be"? There goes another illusion...

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He is a drunk now Dan, not a wino. Becoming a wino would involve more lifestyle changes.

― Josh, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

I wonder whether it is a painful truth that it may only have been in the last couple of months that I have realised what I REALLY want to do with my life - and now I'm doing it.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 3 October 2002 09:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm still figuring things out.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 3 October 2002 09:20 (twenty-three years ago)

i dunno who i am or what i want.

it makes things difficult.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 3 October 2002 09:22 (twenty-three years ago)

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