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Education What's your dream?

Discussion in 'General' started by Zinfandel, 5 Aug 2013.

  1. Zinfandel

    Zinfandel Modder

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    It might sound like a crap dream but I'd love to work with cars.

    Here's my well planned dream!

    Step 1: Open tyre shop
    Step 2: Expand to exhaust/suspension and brakes
    Step 3: Expand to garage capable of everything
    Step 4: Buy land, build custom workshop including annex for performance work/bodyshop.
    Step 5: Build new workshop, build race cars in various formats (Stock hatch, British Rally etc) and own race team. Wildly spend all profits from other work doing so.
    Step 5: Enter high end series such as BTCC.
    Step 6: Get contracted to build performance model of large manufacturer car
    Step 7: Design and build own car whilst expanding network of garages which will definitely be cheaper and more trustworthy than Halfords.
    Step 8: Have car on Top Gear
    Step 9: Take over world.

    Pretty simple! I'll get to it.

    What's your dream?
     
  2. EvilMerc

    EvilMerc Minimodder

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    To be multi-lingual and ride a motorcycle around the world.

    Both are at least semi-achievable!
     
  3. lp rob1

    lp rob1 Modder

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    But you are missing Profit!

    My dream (as of yet, I'm still pretty young so this could change by next year):

    1. Learn many core programming languages to near-mastery degree
    2. Get a decent job in the game programming sector
    3. Work my way up the ranks until I'm making enough money to start putting some away
    4. Start my own game development business
    5. Be more trustworthy and supportive than EA (not a big challenge, I know)
    6. Make a flagship game that really pushes hardware, like Crysis when it first came out
    7. Join the master-race with Gabe Newell
    8. Sell my business, then go back to step 4 on a different planet
     
  4. KidMod-Southpaw

    KidMod-Southpaw Super Spamming Saiyan

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    Stop having dreams. I lack sleep.

    But otherwise:
    Mini Project
    Pay family mortgages
    Nice watch collection
    Audio gear
    Not be stupidly rich
     
  5. RinSewand

    RinSewand What's a Dremel?

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    To be happy.
     
  6. Gunsmith

    Gunsmith Maximum Win

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    to make games and see people enjoy said games

    oh and own a Mustang
     
  7. Unicorn

    Unicorn Uniform November India

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    The blue link in my sig :thumb: Also driving it around the Nurburgring, Hockenheimring, Silverstone, Combe etc. All entirely achievable with enough hard work and determination :)

    Slightly further out of reach is moving to Australia to live and work...
     
  8. dullonien

    dullonien Master of the unfinished.

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    1. Become a qualified architect (3/4 of the way there).
    2. Earn enough money to be comfortable and afford to buy an Audi RS4 Avant and get a mortgage.
    3. Convert the barn on my dad's farm into an awesome house (roughly £100-150 thousand).
    4. Start my own architectural practice, concentrating on one-off residential builds.
    5. Build a nice garage where I can work on building my dream custom car.
    6. Convert one of the smaller barns into a small gym (mainly free-weights) and an indoor/outdoor heated pool (possibly utilising a ground source heat pump).

    That just about covers it. I have no dreams of becoming super rich and owning Ferrari's, just earn enough to be comfortable so I can enjoy life with my family. I've been working on the plans for the barn conversion for over 7 years, and they're still not done, but I hope to apply for planning permission in the next couple of years, so that I know whether I'll be allowed to do what I hope I can.
     
  9. Pliqu3011

    Pliqu3011 all flowers in time bend towards the sun

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    Far too much really…

    • To master lucid dreaming. (To lucid dream at will and be concentrated enough to stay in)
    • To work out a few comic ideas I have.
    • To create digital paintings people would want to look at and become decent at creating concept art.
    • To write the music for a non-existing film.
    • To write fake articles, reviews, comments and create awesome fake screenshots, posters, etc. related to said film and make people believe it actually exists. :D
    • To get a hang (a PANArt one!) and a theremin for fun.
    • To animate a short film.
    • To become a good programmer and an all-round multidisciplinary game-creating… person (an invite from Valve would be the dream of dreams).
    • To make a game that means as much to someone as Morrowind, Machinarium or SotC mean to me.
    • To learn every day, and stop being a lazy ass.
    • To teach others what I've learned in fun and concise tutorials ;).

    Don't feel the need for infinite money or anything, as long as I have enough to live I'm happy. Something that creates infinite time would be pretty damn useful though.
     
  10. Weekly_Estimate

    Weekly_Estimate Random bird noises.

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    1. To run a successful business
    2. To have a house at great as my dads
    3. To have a happy family :p

    edit 4. to get this damn website off the ground.
     
  11. KidMod-Southpaw

    KidMod-Southpaw Super Spamming Saiyan

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    Oh my yes. But isn't is very dangerous?
     
  12. dullonien

    dullonien Master of the unfinished.

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    My brother swears that it gave him insomnia after he learned how do to it.
     
  13. Elton

    Elton Officially a Whisky Nerd

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    Own a Lancia Delta Integrale and an NSX.

    Actually pay off all the debts (however little or large) in my family.

    Get into dat law school. Become a decent lawyer (lol).

    Triple 30" setup.

    Happiness is just the free time I might be able to have.
     
  14. Pliqu3011

    Pliqu3011 all flowers in time bend towards the sun

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    Dangerous? How?
    I spontaneously lucid dream relatively often, and it's a pretty fun (though frustrating) experience. Never had any side effects as far as I know…
     
  15. Joey Propane

    Joey Propane What's a Dremel?

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    Grow a huge beard, rent out a chopper, go coast-to-coast across the states, write a book about it.
     
  16. lilgoth89

    lilgoth89 Captin Calliope

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    to find my eldest brothers
    to be as good with my guitar as I was before my accident
    get into shape

    bout all I can think of atm :/
     
  17. Boscoe

    Boscoe Electronics extraordinaire.

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    To never have to think about money. Once that's sorted come back and ask me for the real problems!
     
  18. Kovoet

    Kovoet What's a Dremel?

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    To be with my mrs till our dying days and also to get a Monday to Friday job.
    An impossible dream would be to win the lottery and start my own PC shop
     
  19. bdigital

    bdigital Is re-building his PC again

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    Be a top motorsport photographer. Travelling the world for motoGP, GT, DTM etc
     
  20. B1GBUD

    B1GBUD ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Accidentally Funny

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    Save a deposit.

    Buy a house.

    Live happily ever after!
     

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