Come on now, not all of you had that little dream when you were 6 years old thinking, "I'm going to be a Web Host when I grow up".. so what really were you intending to do?

I always wanted to be an artist, so that turned out for the better! :)

ahh well chewnet, im sure you will be an artist some day :D :D

I wanted to be a rackshack tech.... :D

i wanted to be a datacentre :confused:

My dream was to be a race car driver. Might still have time to chase up to it. :)

Originally posted by UH-Matt
i wanted to be a datacentre :confused:

Is that possible? :D

dont spoil my dream :bawling:
/ME changes his name to "Project Imperial" :)

Project Imperial << Already taken! :blush:

I wanted to do something with computers when I was kid.

When I hit puberty I wanted to be a porn star.

internet pornstar it is then sasha.

Anyone can be one - Ill sort you out with free streaming hosting in exchange for a free membership muahahahaha.

I wanted to be a pimp!

Greetings:

This is Peter from our team.

From the age of 6 or 7 (age 39 now), I wanted to be involved in programming computers.

My one aunt would always get upset with me because my desire to be involved in programming stayed its course over the years.

She would often rant and rave that a child my age (back then) could not know what they wanted to do; and, that there were people in college who still have to decide what they want to do. How can I, a mere child, know that year in and year out?

There is a difference from a dream of wanting to be involved in a profession, and the reality of the dream.

While over the years I've been in programming in terms of a "title," and developed a hobby of learning different programming languages (ADA, Assembler <various>, ASP, Basic <various including Visual>, C, C++, Clipper, COBOL <no comments>, dBase, JCL <no comment>, Modula II, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, and Shell scripting <various>), the past seven and a half years have been involved in various business aspects of the Internet industry.

Today, I'm mainly involved in managerial issues in terms of running the business. However, I’ve never truly left the programming industry as I’m the primary programmer for our enterprise network monitoring system; and, I often help in technical support when there are programming related issues.

Thank you.

could you give us a little more details please peter. thnx. :)

The UH team sure are crazy :D

Is this where i should put some disclaimer to say that the things i post in this forum arent necessarily the views of Unitedhosting ?

"The UH team sure are crazy"

Will either gain us customers, or lose them rapidly :)

Originally posted by UH-Matt
"The UH team sure are crazy"

Will either gain us customers, or lose them rapidly :)

Well, it did make me visit your website.

ahh! Well i can assure you when it comes to serious business and support we are not crazy
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I wanted to be a Brain Surgeon… didn’t quite happen though :)

I wanted to be a police man for a while. Then, i moved into the pizza shop owner stage, then into a computer enginnering - then into business strategy and i'm still confused. :confused:

Always wanted to be in the computer field didn't much matter what as long as it was computer related. I realized my dream in the summer of 2000 as a PC support specialist. I have since kept learning new things from programing, to netwroking, the webdesign and more. I love this stuff and as the saying goes, a job only seems like a job when it stops being fun, good thing I haven't hit that point yet.

When I was really young I wanted to be a doctor (surgeon), but after doing some early schooling I realized I didn't want to go to school forever. Then I met girls, really hated school :D But during high school I started to get more into computers, so I wanted to be a programmer. But at the same time I picked up a guitar and really liked music, so I wanted to be in a band. Was in a few stupid little bands, but my parents urged me to not get serious about it as it would get me nowhere. Which they were probably right :D

Well, got to college and after one year of all those stupid calculus classes, I switched majors to architecture and landscape architecture. I had some artistic talent so I thought it would work out. 4 years later.. stuck through it and have a degree, yet I don't want to do that for a living and I'm back at my roots in the computer field.

Been doing network and technical support for 4 years, and now I'm hosting :confused: Maybe someday when I get tired of hosting I will actually put my college degree to use, but we will see :D

I wanted to be God

Originally posted by davidb
I wanted to be God


Jobs taking :D

Originally posted by Darth



Jobs taking :D

The jobis taken too :beer:

I wanted to be a professional singer. That came to a halt when I got pregnant with my almost 3 year old son. ;) I was on the road to it though. I was in a very popular local band. I played all over the state of Michigan with the band. I opened for other bigger singers/bands from the state (who have opened for world known singers/bands). I sang on demos for songwriters. And was in the process of making my own solo cd (that's never been finished)...

But I've always been into computers, though. Ever since I could remember, I've been into computers.

And then when I was in high school, that's when the internet really made itself known. I was instantly drawn to it, quickly picking stuff up, and within 6 months time, I was designing websites (not just tacky websites with awful backgrounds! lol). And within a years time, I had my own web design business at 16. And I did fairly well for myself.

But when I was in high school, you had to have lots of $$ in order to make it as a web host. It wasn't even fathomable.

I've been on the internet for almost 9 years now, designing professionally for 8 years... a web host for 2 years.

But I would love to get back into singing and performing on stage. But once you have a family, its hard to get back into that kind of thing. Unless I was really being in the dough with singing, etc... then only would I give up designing/hosting, etc. But until then, I'll stick with this. :)

Hey rockergrrl, what band in michigan if you don't mind answering? A friend of mine is/was in a couple michigan bands, and myself, I even had an offer about a year ago to be a guitarist for Exit to Windsor... but turned it down due to the amount of travel and my current job situations.

A band that's no more anymore (soon went defunct after I had to leave -- creative differences and our bassist decided it wanted to go back to school (even though he was about 26 ;) ).

Out of Saginaw -- Delilah was the name of the band. I was a co-lead singer. The main singer (well before I even joined the band), is a great singer -- she'd make it before I could ever make it in the business. She puts all the female singers that are out now (chick rockers) to shame.

We were going to tryout of Lilith Fair in '99, but there was a family emergency in our drummer's family, so we couldn't make it). But I think we could've easliy made it on the tour though.

But we played all over the state though -- Lansing, Ann Arbor, Detroit, etc. But mostly area gigs though. We had a weekly regular gig at a local bar -- every Thursday night. But we had at least 2 gigs/week. Sometimes more, if requested.

That's awesome. My friend was in Non Solace, which is now defunct as well I believe? I still have a few of their demo tapes, but they played mostly in Flint, occasionally other local venues such as saginaw and lansing, even grand rapids a few times.

I have since lost contact with him, but last I knew he was working for one of the radio stations in Flint and is also in a new band, but not sure which one :) Thanks for sharing!

Originally posted by net-trend
My dream was to be a race car driver. Ditto.

A paleontologist, archeologist, volcanologist, marine biologist, or oceanographer. And sometimes an astronaut. I still find interest in all of these things.

I always wanted to be a vet....then got into computers moved on to wanting to be a web developer realised God gifted me with no artistic talents...so started programming and here I am now.

I was told I could be whoever I wanted to be. Yea, sure. Alright.