what did you want to be when you were young

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Originally Posted by rovercare

Why is argueing with an engineer, like rolling in the mud with a pig?





Cause after a few hours, you realise he enjoys it:)

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My Old Man is an Engineer (Civil, Structural, etc) and that is so true!!

Wanted to be a soldier...and I was..but people I had never met were trying to kill me so I trhought I would become a policeman in a foreign country so I did, but people I didn't know were trying to kill me so I thought I would become a Prison Officer and I did and now lots of people would like to kill me :o:D:nazilock:

an apprenticeship anywhere in australia but rockhampton.....got one in victoria and left home at 16..

cannot remember my childhood thoughts on what i wanted to do.....apart from get out of school

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Originally Posted by schmierer LR at singleton

that sounds awsum.how many head?

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Depends on the year, we average around the 200 ewe mark at a stud level, although it is up to around 300 this year. We run the rest of the ewes as commercials with SAMM rams over them, so overall, lambs, ewes, and rams, around the 1000 head mark + 1500 merinos.

We use genetic benchmarking on all the dorsets so we won't mate anything under a certain index, hence why the numbers can fluctuate a fair bit.

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Originally Posted by Avrio

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never made it to the moon but tried a few times in my 20's with my bongmachine

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I was aiming for Mars but ended up in Uranus...:eek:

I must be unusual - I've never done drugs.

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Originally Posted by MickS

I was aiming for Mars but ended up in Uranus...:eek:

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I was watching an old Top Gear and the comment was made that the BBC no longer allows the usual British pronunciation of Uranus, i.e., Ur-anus. It's now the US version : U-ran-us. :(

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Originally Posted by p38arover

I must be unusual - I've never done drugs.

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you mean the Ron we all know and fear is 100% you...... no mind altering substances? :eek:

Always wanted to be in media - and that's where I am now...designer, photographer and working toward cinematography. My goal is my own creative agency in the next five years...

Along the way I've also worked...
In my parent's profesional lawn mowing business - a business they'd bought to help out a friend, who then decided he didn't like doing it.
In a wholesale nursery in Cairns for a year - I was 14 and earning $10 an hour cash in hand!
As a builders labourer - was thinking about doing a trade as backup to media, but it didn't work out sadly - would still love to do a trade of some sorts as a backup, but it's a bit hard to do at 23 when you've got a mortgage to pay off...
As a chef at a health retreat for a year - was a fun job as my mum was the head chef!
Plus a few other jobs and lots of study!

Thought about a lot of things at school, unfortunately, not much of it to do with school work in my high school years. Joining the Navy or aiming for a Forestry Cadetship did enter the brain. I remember my dear old departed Dad measuring our arms every year........to see whether we could reach the top of a dunny can on our shoulder. :D

Left school at 15 and fell into doing a Fitter/Machinist apprenticeship then Toolmaking and after 19 years decided to follow the BIL (Bushie) into Aviation Firefighting. This followed 10 years as a volunteer with the NSW Bushfire Brigade. After 22 years (now 57 years old), am too lazy to do anything else ;), and am looking forward to retirement in a couple of years time.

I love working with wood, despite my metal working background and turn my hand to most things around the house and property, just not interested in getting paid to do them.

I too, like Ron, didn't have much to do with drugs. Maybe that's why we can spell. :p