Dreams you hope to achieve in your lifetime

[Arcanetrance]

I'll start. I want to open the first restaurant in space

[IrishEyes]

1. Helicopter pilot's license

[awoke_in_2003]

2. Become a proficient fly fisher...

step one starts tomorrow with free lessons on Lake Texoma.

[Arcanetrance]

4. Never tried fly fishing. I've only been fishing once and it was a disaster

My grandfather took me fishing when I went to visit him in florida after they moved there I caught two cat fish and myself

[awoke_in_2003]

6. Fly fishing is a totally different animal.

In bait casting, the weight of the lure pulls the line out. Flies weigh next to nothing. You cast the line, not the lure. I know this will be a deep rabbit hole for me, and I will probably fall in to making my own flies for relaxation.

[Arcanetrance]

7. The other benefit to making your own would be you can control the quality

[awoke_in_2003]

32. We got to tie our own fly...

in the class. The hook is set in me, for sure. If ever in Texas, check in with the folks of Red River Fly Fishers. These folks freely gave a good 5 hours of their time to get me and my grandson a start in this sport. I can not speak too highly of these guys and gals.

[Bertha Venation]

3. run a large feral colony, and

help to run TNR spay/neuter days. Exhausting work, but I believe it would be very rewarding. I've done a little of this and I miss the wild ones.

[Arcanetrance]

5. That's an admirable dream helping animals is always good in my book

[narnian60]

24. +1 million

[rbnyc]

8. retirement. (nt)

[lastlib]

9. Used to have a cartoon on my wall.......:

kid looking up to his father, says, "When I grow up, I want to be a member of the liberal intellectual establishment."

I think I was that kid. Now--would kill to get hired at Burger King................

[nomorenomore08]

10. Write about 20 more books. I've written 3 with a 4th on the way and I'm only 28.

[LeftofObama]

11. That's pretty impressive!

Since you're only 28 I have no doubt you'll achieve that goal! I wish you the best.

[Arcanetrance]

14. What are your books on

[nomorenomore08]

26. Fiction. Straightforward realism mostly, but with a bit of the dark and surreal. n/t

[Arcanetrance]

28. Are they published I'd like to read them

[nomorenomore08]

29. Here's the link to my latest novel:

http://www.amazon.com/Out-Here-Novel-Kevin-Akstin/dp/130040888X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379189610&sr=1-1&keywords=kevin+akstin+out+here

You can find my other books on there by searching my name.

[B Calm]

12. Visit Yosemite National Park

I haven't been there in over 50 years

[Tobin S.]

13. Graduate from college

Not only is that the ticket to a better job, I will also accomplish something that I've wanted since I was a much younger man.

[Grateful for Hope]

19. I hope you realize this dream

[Chan790]

15. Start my own Communications firm for NPOs.

Working on it. Working slowly. Need to get back out of food service first.

[Arcanetrance]

16. The food industry is a hard mistress to escape

[Chan790]

17. Tell me about it.

I grew up in restaurants. I went to college to insure I'd never have to work in it. It's been the source of the best jobs I've had post-college though because of that experience. I have little passion for it however.

It's like the perpetual battle between the career in NPOs I want, trained for, worked and volunteered in...and the career the universe wants me to have.

[Arcanetrance]

18. Lol its funny I became a chef because that's my first love

But when I first started school I was on a path to being a lawyer. I was one semester from graduating and Goin to Seaton hall for law school. When one night I got drunk and realized I hate the law

[riderinthestorm]

31. My oldest daughter is similarly stuck Chan. I really grieve for you all

The economy cratering has certainly left a whole slew of you - educated and ready to make your mark - but unable to get anyone to hire you even at entry level for the career you want.

So you fall back on what you are good at, but not necessarily what you love.

You fall back to working in restaurants. My daughter falls back to working with horses. Her last job was as a barn manager for a private school - free house and food, benefits, vacations, $50k salary... but its not her passion. She just happens to be good at it because she's grown up with it (and in the horse world, because of my husband's competition success, she has a recognizable last name).

I will say she's trying to make the jump. Quit that job in January and has moved to LA and is pretty fierce in trying this time to NOT fall back into working the horse thing and getting a foot in the door in her field.

Good luck to you!

[LWolf]

20. retirement without poverty. nt

[Bunnahabhain]

21. Life has exceeded all expectations a long time ago

Now the dreams are just ones of personal meaning.

Play my bagpipes at the MacCrimmon cairn on the Isle of Skye
Compose my own ambient/chill music and listen to it while sipping wine in the spa tub
Get my advanced sommelier certification (already have the first two but that third is where they separate the real pros from the crowd)

[Arcanetrance]

22. I love bag pipes they convey emotions in ways few instruments can

Since you're a wine connoisseur I have to ask what your favorites are.

[Bunnahabhain]

23. Always a tough question

For normal drinking Pinot Noirs (northern Sonoma, Oregon and well chosen Burgundies) as well as southern Rhone style blends, be they from the actual southern Rhone or from the West Coast (Paso Robles has some great Rhone style blends going).

The stuff I cannot afford more than once in a blue moon though would be aged Bordeaux first growths or aged Burgundies. These can be an ethereal experience but something I can justify no more than a few times a year.

[RebelOne]

25. I am 74 and have achieved most of my dreams.

I traveled to Europe twice, been to Mexico, Barbados, Bahamas, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico and went snowmobiling in the Rockies. I have sky-dived, para-sailed and I learned to fly a plane. The only other thing that I dreamed of doing was to travel to outer space, but I doubt that will happen.

As a kid, I loved horses and always wanted to have one, so I eventually owned three. I couldn't afford that anymore as they are expensive to keep.

And I had the job of my dreams. I was a copy editor, so was paid for doing what I loved and that is reading.

[Taitertots]

27. I want to shake up a bottle of champagne and spray it into the air...

AND, I want it to be appropriate for the situation. Standing alone in my backyard spraying champagne doesn't count.

I think I need to keep a bottle in my fridge so next time something awesome happens I can rapidly deploy the champagne.

[riderinthestorm]

30. Learn to fly (I have my third lesson in about an hour)

Travel. I'm so tied down with this farm that real travel has escaped me. I'm hoping when/if I retire I can do some traveling.

On that note, I got myself certified to teach ESL. I have an EU passport as well so one of my dreams is to incorporate traveling with teaching classes for a year at a time in different places.

Not getting any younger though...