What did you want to be when you grew up?

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:laughing: Billy silly ewe :joy:

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The Milky Bars are on me. :neutral_face:

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My Dad was nowtā€™ special as far as Dads go Dachs, but I did end up just like himā€¦Nowā€™t special!
Dreams donā€™t have to me outrageous.

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Welcome to the club. Iā€™m a father of two and nowt special either. :smiling_face:

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Youā€™re special to us on the forum Dachsā€¦
:hugs:ā€¦Man Hug.

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Thank you Bob and wishing you and yours a happy new year too. :smiling_face:

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I had a dream when I was in my last year at school, I wanted to travel and see the world, I thought what better way to do it than write to a Cruise Company about a job. So I wrote to The Cunard Liners and got a return letter asking me to come down for an interview and discussion, as I was only 15 I had at that point to tell my mother and ask to go. She flew into a rage straight away and I was not able to go, I was so hurt, angry and upset about it I never spoke to her for ages. I had a wee part time job after school and on Saturdays that became full time as soon as I left school, Iā€™d saved my pay for a couple of years, and had more than enough to rent a wee flat so thatā€™s what I did and I was gone from under my motherā€™s thumb. We were never close and I wasnā€™t sorry I left. I went on to become A Personnel Officer for the company, traveling between 4 stores In Tayside.

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Hi Rox. Maybe didnā€™t get to go with the Cruise Company but being a Personnel Officer is a pretty good job. The highlight for me was the ferry to North Uistā€¦

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Dick Barton Special Agent.
Alas failed the 11+ Exam. Dad went Bonkers.
" Iā€™ve been wasting my time, trying to teach you Multiplication Tables",!
ā€œYour be Digging Ditches for the rest of your lifeā€.
:rofl: All the way 2 the Upper Deck.

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I donā€™t think you could fail. It was largely a matter of luck depending on the schools in your area and the spaces available

Where I lived it was the top 12% that went to a Grammar School, the next 10% went to a Technical School, all the rest to a Secondary Modern. those percentages are a bit suss because it depended on the total numbers taking the exam that year. I was in the ā€œbulgeā€ years that went through the school system in the 1950s

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