Post #130146 by johntiki on Thu, Dec 9, 2004 10:45 PM

I always wanted to be a professional baseball player so after I played little league one year I sadly realized that I sucked...and had no intention of taking steroids, so I moved on.

I next wanted to be Indiana Jones; not an archaeologist but the Indiana Jones. I was going to travel the earth getting into all kinds of adventures, beat up some Nazis, wear the fedora, crack the bullwhip, etc. but again my dream didn't pan out. Sure I had the hat and a super nice 8-foot brown leather whip (that I actually used one time to beat the hell out of a neighborhood bully with) - I was stuck in rural Maryland on a dead-end street surrounded by cornfields - the adventure part was severely lacking.

Then I was going to be a writer - I was going to write adventure novels...make a lot of money, live in a big scary Victorian with a wrought iron fence like Stephen King, etc. Then one day I got a case of writer's block that lasted 22 years now.

Finally, I was going to be a director. I shot a couple movies on Super 8, made a lot more using the family’s VHS camera, won an award in high school for a short film, went to college for film, won 2 awards for music videos, shot and edited 2 short films on 16mm, graduated from college and now...I'm a video editor for a TV station.

A major letdown! Damn I wish I had stayed the course with my Indiana Jones studies!