Alright, let me just preface this by saying I am of sound body and mind. No outside, smokey, collegiate factors led to the creation of this thread.

 

Does anyone else have some profession they would have loved to pursue as a guilty pleasure of sorts? For instance, instead of going off to college does anyone wish they just stayed home and opened a deli or something to that end?

 

I don't know.

 

For me, I would have loved to open a fish market. Yeah, a fish market. Maybe after I fail the bar repeatedly, I'll actually be able to do just that.

 

Ok, quickly, someone tell me I'm not the only one thinking of this crap.

Ummm, I quit college for my band. Smart move. Oh sure, I had tons of fun, and I kept with the bands for years, but I sure didn't "make it". But yeah, I stopped college a year and a half into it.

I want to be a Solid Gold Dancer.

 

I probably should of just went into baseball. It could be something I end up regretting.

i want george costanza's yankee job.

i want george costanza's yankee job.

Lol, I loved when he would just sneak out of the office through the vents or however he did it.

Sometimes I wish I just became a fireman.

I wanted to be a foreign correspondent and cover wars in far off lands. Then I was talking to a foreign correspondent, and he mentioned that the most disappointing thing he wasn't prepared for, was the lack of female companionship. He had gotten laid three times in 1980 and that was an average year. Now three times a year isn't bad for a Priest from a small parish, but . . .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Switched majors the next day.

Sometimes I wish I just became a fireman.

 

 

You don't want to be a fireman. You just want to spray s*** with a hose.

Sometimes I wish I just became a fireman.

 

I recommend International Falls, MN if you wish to pursue that dream. TexSox will support you fully with moving expenses, etc.

Edited October 14, 200520 yr by Mercy!

I recommend International Falls, MN if you wish to pursue that dream.  TexSox will support you fully with moving expenses, etc.

 

Nice, good call back

I always wanted to be a hair dresser/stylist.

I have wanted to own a pet store for my whole life. I probably will someday. Stores like PetSmart and Petco make it pretty difficult for small petstores to compete though.

I always wanted to be a hair dresser/stylist.

 

Customer "Wow, that is a great cut, and thank you for the advice on my dissociative fugue. Are you like a Psychologist/Hairdresser?"

 

Soxy "Yes I am, I am America's new Super Hero"

 

There were a couple for me. I got offered a bunch of positions in broadcasting out of college, and I always wondered how those would have turned out. I didn't follow that route because it would have been minimum wage and way too many years of grief for me at that time.

 

I also got a call for an interview to an entry level position with the White Sox two weeks after I started working on the trading floor, and couldn't take anytime off yet to go to an interview.

Customer "Wow, that is a great cut, and thank you for the advice on my dissociative fugue. Are you like a Psychologist/Hairdresser?"

 

Soxy "Yes I am, I am America's new Super Hero"

 

 

Reminds me of the Arrested Development episode where the one brother is a combination analyst/therapist or an analrapist

I have wanted to own a pet store for my whole life.   I probably will someday.   Stores like PetSmart and Petco make it pretty difficult for small petstores to compete though.

Mr. Peebles, How much is that gorilla in the window?

 

 

Edited October 14, 200520 yr by FlaSoxxJim

There were a couple for me.  I got offered a bunch of positions in broadcasting out of college, and I always wondered how those would have turned out.  I didn't follow that route because it would have been minimum wage and way too many years of grief for me at that time.

 

I also got a call for an interview to an entry level position with the White Sox two weeks after I started working on the trading floor, and couldn't take anytime off yet to go to an interview.

Wow, you're not a real Sox fan after all, are you????

 

I always figured if I won the Lotto ( which would be a REAL longshot for me, since I never play it ) I would open up a nightclub to feature metal and punk shows.

Give that sonuvab**** Joe Shanahan a run for his money...

I figured that the "pay-to-play" money alone would help the club stay above water financially....

I would open up a nightclub to feature metal and punk shows.

Give that sonuvab**** Joe Shanahan a run for his money...

 

And maybe you could talk R.E.M. into being the the first act booked in your club like he did. . .

And maybe you could talk R.E.M. into being the the first act booked in your club like he did. . . 

Only if I could get that roadie or whatever to move his anniversary party to my club.

 

and to be factual they weren't the R.E.M. they would go on to become. They were on the rise, but still basically not THAT well known. The first band booked could just as easily been someone similar at the time like Charlie Sexton or Flesh For Lulu, and then it wouldn't be as impressive.

Point Taken.

 

I guess the cbgb mystique would not be so huge either if you replaced The Ramones, Patti Smith, Blondie, and Talking Heads with the Starland Vocal Band and Shaun Cassidy either.

Point Taken.

 

I guess the cbgb mystique would not be so huge either if you replaced The Ramones, Patti Smith, Blondie, and Talking Heads with the Starland Vocal Band and Shaun Cassidy either. 

...see, now that's just silly....

 

 

The only point I was trying to make is that REM HAPPENED to be the first show, not so much that Shanahan had some crystal ball that made him CHOOSE them to be the first show. It could just as easily been someone like Flesh For Lulu or the Dickies or a local band at the time.

I wasn't talking about replacing the club's entire history of bands and replacing them with Shaun Cassidy, ya knucklehead!!!

 

That said, my first show at The Critic Lounge would be Pearl Jam, Megadeth, Green Day, Prince, and the Smashing Pumpkins reunion show......just so I could have a KILLER first show ever for people to talk about later!

Edited October 14, 200520 yr by The Critic

Ach, I have a love/hate relationship with Metro anyway. I saw some good shows there, but also some clams - mostly to appease the Metro junkie girlfriend who was the high school love of my life.

 

Could have been worse, I guess. She could have been a Cubs fan.

Ach, I have a love/hate relationship with Metro anyway.  I saw some good shows there, but also some clams - mostly to appease the Metro junkie girlfriend who was the high school love of my life.

 

Could have been worse, I guess.  She could have been a Cubs fan. 

I hear ya, man, I married one of those....

Good thing she has so many great qualities, the Cub thing can get overlooked....

 

and I do love the Metro - even a bad show is kinda OK there.

Radio. or Travel. or a political campaign.

 

I've never been good at doing things I don't like. So I work in the my guilty pleasure industries. It's kinda nice.