You'd get to wear a colour-coded uniform and travel everywhere by monorail.
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Quote: sootyj @ 10th April 2014, 11:48 PM BSTAh well could I be the night security guard at your volcano base.
You could be a combination of Blofeld and Oddjob.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 10th April 2014, 11:57 PM BSTYou could be a combination of Blofeld and Oddjob.
is that what your careers adviser said to you at school
Quote: sootyj @ 11th April 2014, 12:13 AM BSTis that what your careers adviser said to you at school
My school was so rough, we didn't have Myers Briggs, we had...er, Ronnie Biggs.
Interesting that a few have mentioned army and institutional careers. I actually APPLIED to join the police force.
The application as anyone who's ever done it will know comes in two parts: a regular style job application and a competences section where you have to demonstrate social, ethical and cultural understanding. I sent the two parts in separately and one part got lost. They asked me to resubmit it and I never did, so I never became a copper.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ 11th April 2014, 1:24 AM BSTThey asked me to resubmit it and I never did, so I never became a copper.
And the courts of the land were saved a million police brutality cases.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 11th April 2014, 12:18 AM BSTMy school was so rough, we didn't have Myers Briggs, we had...er, Ronnie Biggs.
booyah
When I was 18, I applied to be a copper too. I went all through the process right to the final interview with the bigwigs of the force.
They told me at the end that they would love to have me but they wouldn't take me out of my apprenticeship and to re-apply when I was 21.
I never did.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ 11th April 2014, 1:24 AM BSTInteresting that a few have mentioned army and institutional careers. I actually APPLIED to join the police force.
The application as anyone who's ever done it will know comes in two parts: a regular style job application and a competences section where you have to demonstrate social, ethical and cultural understanding. I sent the two parts in separately and one part got lost. They asked me to resubmit it and I never did, so I never became a copper.
They'd only have shredded it.
Among my career choices were golfer and architectural technician. I still hanker after the former but I dropped the latter because there was too much glamour.
There was once a work experience guy who came to the design studio I worked at and said: "If can't be a graphic designer I want to be an airline pilot"
A friend of mine went from a bricklayer to psychiatric nurse in one go. 
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 10th April 2014, 11:57 PM BSTYou could be a combination of Blofeld and Oddjob.
Oddfeld and Blowjob more like !
I once wanted to be a pro-wrestler.
A friend of mine in school was told he should become a hairdresser by a career's adviser. He's now a film director.
Quote: Jonathan Whitelaw @ 11th April 2014, 12:06 PM BSTI once wanted to be a pro-wrestler.
A friend of mine in school was told he should become a hairdresser by a career's adviser. He's now a film director.
The career adviser himself should have become a hairdresser.
When I was little kid I at various times wanted to be a clown, a baker and an artist. Then I got a bit older and realised I'm not funny, can't bake and I'm really, really bad at art.
Curiously when taking those aptitude tests at school on what industry would be ideal/best for you, I always laughed thinking I would be rubbish in the one I got. It occurred to me recently that I now work in that industry and a lot of the work I've done since leaving school has been also.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ 11th April 2014, 1:24 AM BSTI actually APPLIED to join the police force.
Just trying to imagine Godot as a chief detective in something like Midsummer Murders -
Villager: Inspector Godot! Reverend Muldoon has been murdered!
Godot: Good, he was a f**king paedo. I hope the killer cut his bollocks off.
Quote: reds @ 11th April 2014, 1:24 PM BSTWhen I was little kid I at various times wanted to be a clown
Clowns am evils.