Slightly buzzed and looking at my life so far, interested in seeing how everyone else is doing.
When I was growing up I wanted to be a Tornado pilot. This is most probably because my dad was in the RAF so I was always living on/near airbases, going to airshows and the like. This dream was shot down because:
A) My eyesight was fucked from an early age
B) I've always sucked at maths
It's still my dream job though I'm planning on joining the RAF in a few months as a photographer.
After I left school I had about a month just sitting around playing video games before getting a job at Pearl Assurance. It was just a general admin job, got it easy since I've always been good with computers and I'm pretty good at dealing with people. Worked there for 2 years before quitting in August 2006 to go to college.
Went to college on a audio/radio production course. Stayed there for 4 or 5 months and then quit because it was shit. The tutors were never there and when they were they just told us to get on with our work. There are only 4 people left on the course as far as I know.
In June 2007 I got my current job which is just being a "sweeper" at Anglian Water logistics. That means if anyone is too busy to do a job they can pass it on to me and I get to sort all the shit out in the warehouse. I also do a lot of overseeing of the truck loadings, make sure everything is put on correctly etc. so nothing rolls off. Pretty shit job and my boss is a twat, but I'm sticking it out for now.
As I said I'm hoping to join the RAF in 2/3 months as a photographer. I was thinking about it since July last year, but back then I wanted to be a weapons techie but since I don't have the relevant maths qualifications it would be nigh on impossible for me to make it. I'm doing alot of exercising and mental arithmetic (as well as taking photo's) to try and prepare myself for the tests.
Now you (no tl;dr's please)

That sounds like an interesting career choice.
Well, for quite some time since I was a young Mattie, I've wanted to become a palaeontologist. I sorta think that I probably have reduced my chances because Im sure you need qualifications at university or a level for geology and possibly biology. I aint too sure. I wont let that deter me.
Past wise, I got through the main school education Ok. Sixth Form I managed to scrape into University with 3 E grades. But I totally fucked up my first year of University by being too absent and not putting in the required effort. Now im paying the consequences with debt and regret and stress and self loathing. Heh
Just working at Dominos Pizza atm. Its an Ok job. I technically could become an assistant manager or store manager. I have the skills for it. But... I want to go to University back in september. Aim to have learnt how to drive by then. So yeah, driving is a goal for me atm.
Other then that. I just want to do my ICT course with Management Studies course at University. When I leave Uni, hope to see about working in the IT market and maybe getting into palaeontology that way. Making software with a focus on that field maybe? Or I could see if I can impress a museum with my IT skills. heh
But yeah.. the past for me, its full of mistakes and regret. The present is calm. The future Im working towards really

Well played lads ^
Where to begon. I lived in Adelaide, South Austrlia for the first 18 years of my life, which is a place I love. I never was a terrific student, but I was solid. Couple of A's, few B's and a C sort of deal. Maths was a weak point - im ok with numbers, its just the other stuff that confuses me. The stuff ull never use outside of the classroom.
Near the end of my schooling days I met my current girlfriend Blair, who unfortunately at the time lived in Melbourne. After finishing school I started working for my Dad's Financial Planning company in admin - was OK, but got pretty boring pretty quick. Still - it was cash coming in and that was important. I had decided half way through that year that I was going to move to Melbourne to do Uni and be with my girlfriend. It was a tough thing to do at 18 - but it felt like the right thing to do. Its sad though, because I have a really good relationship with my parents and brother and sister...its hard to leave them behind and take a blind leap of faith.
So off I went. Saved a ton of cash from the year and moved over with my Cousin and some of his mates in Melbourne. I was doing a course in Media and Communication, which was a bit of a bludge but seemed ok enough, when suddenly my Cousin had to go home to Mildura (country Victoria). His mates moved out. I was left pretty high and dry...so I moved in to my girlfriends house...which is occupied by her parents and younger brothers (16 and 13). Good thing that they are all really cool, really nice people. Her parents are awesome, I get looked after real well. I stopped my course halfway thru year 2 as I was less and less engaged with it...it was just fuckin crap. I started working at a few Financial Planning places through my Dads connections but nothing offered anything stimulating, just same old boring files and paper pushing.
I recently got a new job at a different practice in the city, and ive got a much better role here. Im an 'Advisor Support Consultant' that has to go out and meet people with the financial advisor, take down all notes from the meeting and work with the paraplanners to get everything finished...so I feel like im more a part of things. Pay isnt too bad either, so thats a bonus. Hopefully in the future ill be a financial advisor with my own lot of clients to visit.
I always was a good basketballer. I injured my ankles pretty bad when I was about 14-15 and they havent really recovered to the extent I would have liked. I used to be able to dunk, now I can only just touch rim - but it helped me become an excellent shooter. I think im a better player now than I ever have been, and its something I have worked pretty hard on.
Ive played the drums since I was 12-13, so Im not too bad at that either. My double kick skills are pretty good, I just need to work harder on my fills. I dont play as much as I should anymore, I just practice learning songs. I really need to try harder on the kit - because I love playing it.
My girlfriend and I are coming up on our 4th year together in July, and things are going really well. I hope to be moved out with her by the end of the year - get a dog or cat - and start to settle down a bit. Im only 20 so im not gettin married yet, but in the next 4-5 years I could see it. Shes a real good bird, was a good find
Im reasonably happy and content with my life to date - hope it continues this way with no massive obstacles.

Well for me I was a Gymnast til the age of 10 I am the wild child in my family I learned how to read upside down & was always running around causing trouble so Gymnastics was a good thing for me I did a little competition for Gymnastics & got 5th place so I was happy it was alot of fun & I can still do some stuff but havent in a while. I did Ballet & HATED it Ballet was boring but it helped with being more flexable & balanced for Gymnastics.
Then I started playing music & I had to pick one so I went for music. I play 6 instruments & am involved in a bunch of band stuff. I have played Piano since I was 6, Clarinet 10, Bass 12, Guitar 13, Flute 14, & I Madolin 15 I dont really know how to play it but I play it like a Guitar & my Clarinet teacher wants me to learn Alto Sax but we will see. I'm in my high school band I'm second chair on Clarinet & Jazz band I play Bass, I'm also in the youth Symphony here & am also second chair on Clarinet & in there Jazz band I play Guitar.
I'm home schooled its fun I guess, you cant skip school, you dont get sick days unless you are like deathly ill, some times you get a snow day & if your parents want to be evil than they will have you do school during the summer. I guess I'm an ok student I think school is boring but what can you do I absolutely hate Grammar dont mind Math or History or any thing else but Grammar I hate with a passion. I hope to go to Berklee College in Boston or Musicians Institute in LA to study Guitar Performance & Music Production & Engineering.
So far I am a Guitar teacher but need a better job. I'm the second oldest in my family I have an older sister & a younger sister & brother I mean to the of course I think they are all a little scared of me I'm the prankster & they hate it but its fun my siblings are emotional to put it nicely (big cry baby wimps if you dont) I dont cry every time some one talks to me, I dont get up set if some one makes a joke about me, I dont cry if I dont get what I want yes my family is weird but they are still fun to mess with & some times we get along.
& thats it really I cant think of any thing else right now.

so anyway...
when i was younger i never really knew what i wanted to do. i was kinda leaning towards computer design as i like computers and art but yeah i kind of grew out of that. In school i wasn't much of a studyer except in english, french and geography, but i still done fairly good in my exams, enough to get my college course comfortably. I'm studying english at the moment as im hoping to do journlism so ill see what happens basically. The worst period in my life was last summer as 1) i had chicken pox for my exams
2)i broke up with my girlfriend3) was stressed i done shit in my exams as i had the ole pox and lastly 4) i had no job for alot of the summer. still at the end of the summer everything turned out great so yeah im happy.

I live, and have lived in Cornwall for my whole life and I couldn't be happier. I'm 17 and I have a small, but close group of friends and I'm doing well with my education. I'm pretty musical, enjoy playing guitar and writing music in general. I'm a keen reader, mostly interested in Greek Mythology, Philosophy (primarily Existentialism) and Historical texts. I'm currently unemployed but not for lack of trying. Job prospects in the south west are terrible. I've had a very pleasant upbringing and I have a great family. In short, I wouldn't want anything to change. The only problem is, my easy lifestyle has made me realize how much I love where I live and the people I live with. The thought of leaving the oh so placid Cornwall to move to a more urban area makes me feel quite sick, but with the way things are nowadays, the concept of me finding a good job down here are slim to nil. I now know that realistically, I will have to leave home if I want to go places and I'm sure when the time comes and it happens, I will learn to adapt. For now at least, I am enjoying life and living as a normal teenager would.
I wouldn't call myself highly academic, but I managed to get through my GCSE years without as much as glance at a text book whilst achieving pretty good grades in more or less anything. Of course, GCSEs are pretty much just pieces of paper nowadays, so I felt that if I wanted to aim higher, get a specialized job or what have you, I would need A levels at the very least. With this in mind, I signed up to the local sixth form to do A levels in Maths, Biology, History and Philosophy and Ethics, just because I had enjoyed them at GCSE and achieved fairly decent grades. So I'm now a few months into each course, doing well in Biology and History, supposedly 'flourishing' in Philosophy and Ethics and just about managing in Maths. I was never particularly good with numbers, only got a B at GCSE, but I was told that I simply lacked application and commitment to learning the algorithms and whatnot and could easily get a good A level if I could learn to study. If I'm honest, I can't see this happening as I really do lack application, even more so to something as bland as A level Mathematics. It's not too bad though, I'll try my best to scrape a pass at AS and then drop it for A2 and focus on my other subjects. Who needs maths anyway?
As for the future, I am undecided in most aspects. I feel I want to go to University but before considering it, I would want to find a suitable career path and pursue it accordingly. I have no interest in getting a degree in come random subject that will do nothing to help future career options but leave me with unwanted debt. I'm gonna give it a real hard think over the next few months and try to decide how I want to go about it. I'm only 17, so I suppose I still have a while to mull things over but I really do want some solid plans that will help my future.

I like this thread. I am learning about people.
Lets see. When I was growing up. I didn't have a clue what i wanted to do with myself. i think i went through like 20 different career options. Including a lawyer, doctor, nurse. Usual sort of crap. went to high school and found and something very bad happened to me. I got over it and threw myself head first into studying.i had a love for sciences. Specifically chemistry. with this in mind, I sat my exams, passed them all with respectable results and chose to go to college for two years.
I got bored there and figured that it was a waste of my time and theirs to stay so I left. Worked in a British Gas call center doing sales and made plenty of money, but the place was a hell hole so I left. Spent a good few months getting my designs project going, going to gigs, hanging with friends.
I got bored of that and got the job I have now. Its close to home, it pays ok and i have people there that i can get on with. I also started a gig promotions project with my friend Graeme and our first gig is on the 12th of march in glasgow. Seriously excited about it!
the future.... I hope that in the future i will have gone back to uni and got qualified as a graphics and web designer. I also hope that the promotions venture works as well. Hard work, aye. But i figure I have a fair shot.

Well, I am not too sure where to start or what to talk about, but yeah. Anyways, when I was a youngling, the first things I remember doing (Besides school) was Mum sending me off to do gymnastics classes because she was sick of me cart wheeling around the house. They had this little system called GYM* (Gym star, which is lame) and when you signed up they assessed your skill level and put you into the badge level they thought was best. I got into M straight away, and I would have gone straight into the * thing, but it involved a skill on the uneven bars that I had no idea how to do, but picked it up in about 5 minutes. I ended up becoming pretty good, UNTIL the company running it had to place in all these new policies which pretty much restricted us more advanced students from training to more advanced levels so we had to stick the level of the least…‘talented’ students, so to speak, which basically ended up bringing everyone better down. Anyways, after 8 years, making this old bitch of a teacher cry about 3-4 times, my favourite coach leaving to literally, ‘join the circus’ and making many new friends, I quit.
A while after I started year 7, my friend and me started up hip-hop/break dancing class. She always wanted to do dancing but never really liked ballet or jazz, and we saw the ad, and she asked me to do it with her. Later on, she decided she did not really like it, but I fucking loved it. I picked most of it up easily because of my gymnastics skills. Also met a guy I went to school with, and we ended up going out for about 1 year and 8 months and are still really good friends now. Did it for about 2 ½ - 3 years and was told that I was ‘the best student that he had taught in years’, which I am still very proud of to this day.
Moving on, high school, now and all that, I really have no fucking idea what I want to do with myself. Rachel (The mate I’m always getting drunk with, but she’s pretty much my only friend these days) and I have been talking about moving away from Australia or this area for AAAAGGEESS, almost a few years but never really knew where. Now we are seriously considering going through with it too. I think we are tossing up between moving somewhere away from Newcastle, because, well Newcastle is gay, or possibly going as far as Canada. We really don’t know yet. So when we finish high school, get our HSC’s etc, we will probably just work our asses off for a year, get a shitload of money saved up, then assess our options, see where we are in life and so on. We just want to get away from this area and majority of people in it.
I’m pretty much just taking my life each day as it comes.

Would your plans for Canada have anything to do with our resident Jaysin

HAHA!
I only just realised
Surprisingly we've actually been talking about moving to Canada for quite a while now.
Jaysin would just be an added perk

Well about me.
When i was growing my, i always wanted to be an airline pilot. that was ruined because of the stuff you have to go through,. You need good eyesight, i dont. You need A levels, and i couldnt put myself through doing A levels. Also when i was younger, i was subject to various types of bullying, due to my hair colour. It still goes on these days, but it doesnt seem as bad as it was when i was younger.
When i joined secondry school i started getting interested in some sports. I skateboarded quite often, i played defense in the school hockey team and started/still do gymnastiques in school. Its not all that dancing stuff, its all the acrobatics. But i have to be very careful when i do it. Because three years ago, i broke my knee skateboarding and my knee cap grew back funny. Since then i broke it two times. I decided to give up skateboarding because i really hurt myself, and i didnt want to risk breaking my knee again. I gave up hockey, because i cant really run fast, or do sports for a long time anymore. Gymnastiques is different though, cos runnings in short bursts, but i gotta be careful with landings.
When i was 11 i started drumming in a band called relapse. It is, to my knowledge, the slowst moving band to exist haha. Took us a year to perform infront of people, which was too 2000 people in school, and we performed one song. Drumming started to get boring to me, and the band started becomming painful because the bassist, matt, was a cunt to me. We only everplayed one propper show which was last year. And we got 200 people out just for us, which was a suprise. It was enjoyable but, that band isnt for me.
Last Christmas i decided to pick up a guitar and i dont put it down. I progressed really fast, due to playing it for about 3-6 hours a day. I then started a band called Left-Wing, that band was very short lived. In September, i started up a new band called Covet Chaos, and we progressed quickly. I manage to contact many people with the band which is good. If it wasnt for me, that band wouldnt be where they are. And they respect me for all that ive done for them. I organize all the practices, the shows, the recording, song writing sessions. I spend hours getting things sorted out for them. Sean, my best friend and other guitarist, has said, they wouldnt have the drive to get all that sorted. For that band now, we are releasing a demo, which Mike Pilat (of The Ocean) is recording, mixing and mastering. So i hope things go well for that.
When i started playing guitar i took a great interest in recording and mixing, and i still do. At this moment, i am working towards getting on a sound tech course at college. To work in a recording studio is now my dream for my life, and im gonna work my hardest at that.
I dont know who i would be if i didnt take an interest in msuic, it would be an un-intersting life i assume.
For further into the future, i dont see what will happen. But i hope to try n take my band further. Ill always work on that. Ill just try to progress in life any way i can i guess.