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rabbit

If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« on: 01 December, 2016, 10:15:44 am »
If someone could magically transform you into the top 0.001% of a profession and make you one of the best in the world, what profession would you chose?

Mine would not be cycling in any form!

If a genie could grant me a wish to be something spectacular, it would be a prima ballerina.

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hatler

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #1 on: 01 December, 2016, 10:18:24 am »
Politician.   :demon:
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Ian H

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #2 on: 01 December, 2016, 10:58:22 am »
Interesting question.  I wouldn't.  I'm temperamentally unsuited to that sort of commitment.  I'd like to be a better artist, but that's not doing stuff for money (which is not the same as liking to be paid for stuff).   This reminds me that I have some invoices to write.
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pcolbeck

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #3 on: 01 December, 2016, 11:02:38 am »
Ooh tough question. Probably musician, specifically acoustic guitar.
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Polar Bear

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #4 on: 01 December, 2016, 11:03:14 am »
Child law lawyer.
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ian

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #5 on: 01 December, 2016, 11:11:39 am »
I'm curiously happy being the 18th most influential Tidy Haired Thought Leader™ in east Surrey. Perhaps, I'd like to be number 17 for a while.
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mattc

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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #6 on: 01 December, 2016, 11:54:42 am »
Being Guy Martin.
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Lady Cavendish

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #7 on: 01 December, 2016, 11:57:56 am »
Flautist, or 10,000 metre runner (They're quite different, aren't they?!)
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Basil

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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #8 on: 01 December, 2016, 12:29:14 pm »
Cosmologist, chef, cricket all rounder or wellie thrower.
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fuzzy

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #9 on: 01 December, 2016, 12:39:19 pm »
Sports reporter.

I would love to be able to make my wedge reporting on sport in all its wide ranging glory (and shame).
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Woofage

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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #10 on: 01 December, 2016, 01:01:30 pm »
Instrument making.

I did consider this as a career when I was at school but decided it wasn't for me. However, I've been lucky in all my jobs to have a large amount of work by hand (as well as by brain) so I haven't done so bad really.
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Kim

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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #11 on: 01 December, 2016, 01:11:51 pm »
Astronaut.  Seriously, what's wrong with you people, with your grown-up answers?
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mattc

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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #12 on: 01 December, 2016, 01:15:19 pm »
Quote from: Kim on 01 December, 2016, 01:11:51 pm
Astronaut.  Seriously, what's wrong with you people, with your grown-up answers?
I did actually consider that! But "Movie Astronaut" is what I really want. (Or possibly Buck Rogers)

The real ones spend too much time in confined spaces, eating shit, sleep deprived, training far too hard, getting blown-up in Florida ... etc ...
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T42

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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #13 on: 01 December, 2016, 01:26:36 pm »
Operatic tenor.  Or maybe baritone, the pay's not as good but you don't have to hug La Dame de Too Much Chocolate.
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pcolbeck

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #14 on: 01 December, 2016, 01:32:30 pm »
Quote from: Kim on 01 December, 2016, 01:11:51 pm
Astronaut.  Seriously, what's wrong with you people, with your grown-up answers?

I suppose I could combine the two:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM7XerPy2kY
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fuzzy

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #15 on: 01 December, 2016, 01:49:32 pm »
Quote from: Kim on 01 December, 2016, 01:11:51 pm
Astronaut.  Seriously, what's wrong with you people, with your grown-up answers?

Kim, the question was what would I want to be in the top 0.001% of?

I would be happy to be at the bottom of the pile of astronauts!
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Aidan

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #16 on: 01 December, 2016, 01:55:16 pm »
Quote from: Kim on 01 December, 2016, 01:11:51 pm
Astronaut.  Seriously, what's wrong with you people, with your grown-up answers?

Astronaut is my answer too :thumbsup:
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Wowbagger

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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #17 on: 01 December, 2016, 02:04:06 pm »
I too would have said operatic tenor at one time, but I sing second bass these days. With T42 crowding me out of the top 0.000001% I shall have to plump for leg-spin bowler.
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fuzzy

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #18 on: 01 December, 2016, 02:09:25 pm »
Bowling some overs upon which I can report in a professional expert manner.
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Samuel D

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #19 on: 01 December, 2016, 02:12:02 pm »
Quote from: Kim on 01 December, 2016, 01:11:51 pm
Astronaut.  Seriously, what's wrong with you people, with your grown-up answers?

Policeman.
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mike

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #20 on: 01 December, 2016, 02:21:03 pm »
Classical pianist or free climber. 
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noisycrank

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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #21 on: 01 December, 2016, 02:33:19 pm »
Quote from: Kim on 01 December, 2016, 01:11:51 pm
Astronaut.  Seriously, what's wrong with you people, with your grown-up answers?

At 18 I made some career decisions based on Astronaut or Explorer which have definitely affected where I ended up. I agree about the cycling. Any cycling biography I have read implies that to be really good you have to be seriously messed up. Is Gentleman Loser an option?
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T42

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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #22 on: 01 December, 2016, 02:34:17 pm »
Actually, if Wow wants to be the tenor I'll be David Attenborough.  Just not his age, though.
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Psychler

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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #23 on: 01 December, 2016, 03:20:43 pm »
Billionaire playboy!
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citoyen

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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #24 on: 01 December, 2016, 03:27:55 pm »
Chef.

When I finished uni, I very nearly decided to go into catering. It's the one thing I'd do differently if I could have my time again.
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