When very young around age 10 i wanted to be an air hostess . Then when i left school with no qualifications i asked mum if i could be an apprentice hairdresser . The wage was £1 a week . I was promptly told to get a proper job to help feed the family of 9 mouths . So i reluctantly went to work in a shop . I think my wage was about £3 a week . I changed many jobs throughout my life all very low paid until i went to college to retrain aged 50 .
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I don’t recall having a particular aim, but I did think the job of being on television and slapping the happy suns and gray clouds on the weather map looked like something I could probably learn how to do 
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Nor me, I usually followed the path of least resistance but was lucky that it usually involved well above average pay.
Also did well on the short term money market in the late 80s/early 90s and the property market which set me up for a good retirement at 60.
The only thing that rankles slightly is that I gave my ex wife a house free and clear as a property settlement thinking that eventually my kids would get it, she managed to gamble it away within three years. If I’d known I would have fought harder but of course I didn’t, anyway they don’t seem to care anyway.
It sounds like you did well for yourself, raised a family comfortably, and your kids are now happy and independent. Most importantly, they are still coming around and part of your life! I think your “luck” was more about good decisions and staying the course. You may not have aimed but it sounds like you hit the target.
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Yep, I am a happy, content little bunny. Absolutely nothing to complain about.
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When I was a lad, many moons ago the only route out was being a miner, the church or the military, I wanted to be a jockey 
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Did you grow out of it? 
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Old 
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Have you achieved your wish 
It appears i,m winning
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A man. It’s what happened thank God. It doesn’t seem to be so easy these days.
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Yes sideways…
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Older
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Max has already cracked that one
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Humnnn grew up, dumber, yes dumber.
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I think I just wanted to be grown up. But not sure I ever managed it.
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Alive 
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I wanted to go on the dole (unemployment benefit) until I was sixty five, then collect the state pension.
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Never did happen though, did it?
I wanted to be ‘Just like my Dad’ He was big, strong, and my hero…