When I am big I will become...

Originally posted by @mghrn55
Retired.

Well, you finally reached your goal!!! 😉

-VR

Sex maniac but I failed the oral exam.

Astronaut, but unfortunately I failed at being a pilot.
Found my way into B2B sales and after several years working the disciplines in a global blue chip devices business I have found myself as a sales excellence director for the last few years. I would like to go freelance in a year or two but not sure if I can make the jump to light speed without a Wookiee wing-man.

Originally posted by @ponderable
When I am big I will become...

I wanted to make dramas for radio.

I used to make gluey airfix models of aircraft. One day I built a yellow RAF Wessex Search and Rescue helicopter. I remember thinking that the winchman of these things had a cool job.
Which is what I've been doing since 1986, firstly with the RAF and recently in the private sector in Brunei. Shortly to retire though, and it's been every bit as cool as my 10 year old self imagined.

Originally posted by @larkie
One day I built a yellow RAF Wessex Search and Rescue helicopter. I remember thinking that the winchman of these things had a cool job. Which is what I've been doing since 1986, firstly with the RAF...

As an RAF man, did you get into fights with members of the Royal Navy? Or did the fact you worked on the most navy-like type of aircraft make them think twice?

Originally posted by @fmf
As an RAF man, did you get into fights with members of the Royal Navy? Or did the fact you worked on the most navy-like type of aircraft make them think twice?

Good question! No fights - but quite often disagreements on the 'best' ways of using the Sea King, our winching procedures varied quite a bit. We always saw ourselves in the RAF as the specialists of helicopter SAR, as you could spend years in the job, whereas the Navy crews would tend to alternate between SAR and other helicopter jobs, like Airborne Early Warning, trooping and anti-submarine work. That said, the Navy SAR cab at Prestwick was always busy and did a grand job.
Actually there were a few fights but they were usually beery scraps in the bars down the Falklands and relatively tame.

Originally posted by @very-rusty
goad,

I think you would have been good at #3.

I wanted to work with FBI...until I found out what it meant...I thought it meant Female Body Inspector! 😉

-VR

And here I always thought you were male, not a female... 😛

It was a teacher up to age 10 then a horse breeder with my own chunk of land up to 14,
followed by a dream of working somewhere in art and design but no interest in attending school regularly.

Originally posted by @suzianne
And here I always thought you were male, not a female... 😛

Females are allowed to inspect female bodies too, you know. It's a modern world.

Originally posted by @shallow-blue
Females are allowed to inspect female bodies too, you know. It's a modern world.

In your dreams.

Originally posted by @wolfgang59
In your dreams.

No, on my computer screen. Maybe in Suzi's dreams?

Originally posted by @suzianne
And here I always thought you were male, not a female... 😛

Suz,

You have always been correct. What better job for a man? 😉 😛

-VR