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Hi. Did all of you really want to be signmakers? I wanted to be a ballerina, until I discovered that I was a natural-born klutz. Then I wanted to be an archeologist, but I wasn't scientifically gifted. By first grade, I knew I was an artist. Signpainting just kinda fell into my lap. I love it, and it helps to pay the bills & all, but sometimes I long to be something else. Like a forensic detective, or a greeter at WalMart. How's by you? love- JILL
------------------ Jill M. Welsh
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Career service Naval Gunners-Mate, but even though I served, they wouldn't really let me actually shoot anything, so I said "What the heck....second best is signs".
------------------ St.Marie Graphics & Makin' Tracks Sound Studio Kalispell, Montana stmariegraphics@centurytel.net http://www.stmariegraphics.com 800 735-8026 We're chiseling every day of the week! :^)
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I remember fantasizing about being a car designer and then a musician or newspaper journalist. While still in high school I was asked to paint signs by several people who knew of my artistic inclination and it became a career I never even entertained at the time. Completely self taught with all sorts of 'bad techniques' I have never looked back except for two detours into the advertising venue which is a related field anyway. So, for almost 30 years I have earned income as an artist and don't ever expect to do anything else. I get plenty of satisfaction from the traditional techniques as well as the continuously evolving technology of signmaking. And I still dabble in cars and music on a recreational basis. Havin' fun!
Happy Signing.......Marty
------------------ Marty Happy Signmaker Since 1974 Happy Ad Sign & Design Regina SK, Canada S4N 5K4
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I've always wanted to do something that involved horses. A trail rider instructor, or have a horse boarding facility.
Today? I'm ok with what I do since I need the funds to live in the country. (having acerage isn't cheap) If I didn't need the funds, I'd prefer to be a stay at home mom for the timebeing.
We tried the horse boarding facility since living here. It was a disaster. One boarder neglected her horse and we ended up caring for him until we could convince the animal protection unit that this horse needed special care. He was a starving thoroughbred and he wouldn't gain weight, just lose it. It was a nightmare situation, enough to scare us into getting all the others off the property and have the land as just ours once again. SO MUCH FOR SOME DREAMS! LOL!
If hubby would let me, I'd also try horse boarding again, changing our methods abit. You learn so much the first time around! I'm just not a quitter!
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Hi Jill. When I was little I wanted to be a kindergarten teacher. But actually as soon as I got hired as the sign painter for PayLess Drug Store I knew that is what I wanted to be. I was 20 years old and totally in love with handlettering. But before that I also wanted to be a famous artist and paint beautiful watercolor paintings while listening to beautiful music up in my loft overlooking Lake Washington. But wait....I also wanted to be Pat Benetar and belt out "Hit me with your best shot......!" Now I am wanting to be a Private Investigator.....It is never too late to be what you want. And whatever you are.....Be a Good One!
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I actually became what I wanted to be.. an engineer... although, I wanted to be an electrical engineer but somehow fell into structural engineering.
While in engineering, I picked up a small vinyl cutter just to use for my hobbies.. decals and paint masks for Radio Controlled cars, jetskis and other stuff. I do have the artistic background as well.
So, after having all my friends tell me I should sell graphics and coming to the realization that engineering just isn't any fun anymore, here I am selling graphics to people that share the same hobbies as I do.
------------------ Mike Pipes Digital Illusion Custom Graphics Lake Havasu City, AZ http://www.stickerpimp.com
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I always wanted to be a cartoonist for Disney, or a photographer for Playboy. But, I haven't grown up yet (I'm only 40), I'll wait till I'm Cy's age before I decide what I'm gonna do with my life. doc
------------------ David Overholt RunningDog Artworks 210 Cedar St Pemberville, Ohio aka, doc
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I want to live at the edge of the rainforest and have folks come down and stay a while. I want to have a "rainvillage" store, where one can buy healing herbs and such, and there, also, have a small sign shop to satisfy my heart's desire for art, with folks bringing in anything from carts or planes to have striped or lettered with natural dye paints from the forest! Some of the money would go to preserve the natural beauty of the land, some to feed folks like you that come to hang around for a while! Yes, kind of like "Medicine Man" with Sean Connery.... right in the heart of a most beautiful place on earth, and with all my loved ones around. Timeless!
ps. Of course, when I was five years old, I really wanted to navigate tugboats and be a tightrope walker!
------------------ Deb Creative Signs "Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime."
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I guess I'm doin' what I've always wanted to (except for that stint in junior high when I wanted to be a computer programmer, or my senior year when I just knew I was gonna get in engine building at a local NASCAR shop).
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I always wanted to be a "Test Pilot" in a "House of Ill Repute"...that never worked out, so I became a sine paneter. By thje way...I never grew up, only older and wider!
------------------ Si Allen #562 La Mirada, CA. USA (714) 521-4810 ICQ # 330407 "SignPainters do It with Longer Strokes!"
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As far as what I wanted to be when I was growing up! I am still under the same dream. A Graphic Artist. But lately I like to refine my talents as to the standards of tasteful Pin-Up art. George Petty, Vargos,Olivia,Sorayama etc...
Getting close but I have to work on it somemore...One day I'll hit it on the nail head and publish some ,But not today!
------------------ Raven/2001 Airbrushed by Raven Lower Sackville N.S. deveausdiscovery@sprint.ca
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I want to be a drug addict so I could eventually get off drugs and become a drug counselor and make 60,000 to start.
------------------ HotLines Joey Madden,47 years in the Classic Art of Pinstriping Grants Pass, Oregon Learn something...... http://members.tripod.com/Inflite
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well.. i never realized that ..old was enevitable....and iam still wanting to be...something when i grow up....only problem is the mind is stll 16 and the body is 56....have to make a lot mind to body recalculations.....hehehehehehe guess thats what happens to a guy who spent his youth as a "gigalo"....but oh the memeories...
------------------ joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-944-5060 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND
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Me to by first grade Jill. When the art teacher held up my picture and said "Now this is beautiful"...From then on I was the class artist. By 11th grade I wanted to be a Fashion Designer (cuz I weighed 180 and had mom make outfits that camo-ed it!) I invented the swing coat! My first job ran the weight off of me(and now high stress and low fat keeps it off!) at a grocery store...where I of course made the signs! Unfortunately my register never balanced so the had to transfer me to....yes Cheryl...THE SIGN SHOP! Read everything I could get my hands on (and still do) so I too fell into this and love it....well mostly! I'm kinda wanting to do murals or wild 4' by 8' garden cutouts of fantasy stuff, faries, man in the moon...fun stuff for my cute cottage(shop)...home & then sell them...Some of the stuff I put on semi's converted to cut outs.....Just to keep evolving and maybe moving towards the relaxed money making instead of I NEED IT YESTERDAY!
------------------ Robin McIlvaine RM Signs & Vehicle Graphics Punxsutawney, Pa 814-938-3022 signlady@penn.com
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I want to be a multi millionaire. I am already working on my SECOND MILLION, I gave up on the first million.
I wanted to be a professional football player, then in high school I realized that football was a business not a game or sport, no fun in that. I don't even watch football anymore. I guess after that I always wanted to own my own biz.
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ever since I stumbled across my first Signpainter lettering a dump truck in an open field, I wanted to be a sign painter.that was in 1955 and I was 10 years old.
I'm proud to say "I made that goal" now if I could just be Mike Lavalle...
------------------ Monte Jumper SIGNLanguage/Norman.Okla.
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i was gonna be either in the apollo program,which got scrapped due to the fact that it ended when i was 9,or jimi hendrix....just couldn't get the skin or the hair right for that one...
------------------ Gavin Chachere aka Zeeman Miller Supply Co./Ozone Signs & Grafix New Orleans La. www.millersupply.net www.ozonegrafix.com
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My son was very upset right before he graduated high school, so much so he would only tell his mother why.
Turned out he was ashamed to tell me that he didn't know what he wanted to be,after high school or coledge.
Well, I tod him he was just like me(never did figure out what I wished to be)and it was ok, cause you are "who" you are not "what" you are, that makes you special !!
Anyone can learn to do anything, myself, I have had the most wonderfull life tryin to figure out what I can do next !!
Roger(jack of all trades)
------------------ Roger Bailey Rapid Tac Incorporated Waikoloa, Hawaii
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My dream and one pursuit in life has been since I was 12 to be a syndicated cartoonist. It's a hard field to get a chance in, but I've had some great responses from some submissions I sent in. Working on one now that I think might be the best chance for syndication. I love doing signs, but cartooning is what I am really good at, and love.
------------------ John Deaton III Deaton Design 109 N. Cumberland Ave.,Harlan, Ky. 40831 606-573-9101
I can't remember ever not wanting to be some sort of artist. Now if I could just figure out how to get PAID for loungeing around & doodling in sketchbooks all day, for sure I'd never have to grow up at all!
Yer Pal, Bill Krupinski Doin' phat art at his bomb-ass shop just a hip-hop from da Milwaukee Panel Jam in Waukesha--WORD! www.artfirststudio.com
------------------ wizitude Wm. J. Krupinski ArtFirst Studio Jefferson, WI kruptoons@netscape.net
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Hi SJ I'll be 51 next month and I'm still waiting to grow up! Really-----I always wanted to be a truck driver ( I heard life on the road was great )hahahahahahahahaha
------------------ Ed CJ Williams CJ Graffx Christiana,Pa. cjgraffx@epix.net Just have'n fun....
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I'll tell you what I wanted to be when I grow up... taller!
Now, let's see... I wanted to be a ballerina, an astronaught, a teacher, a long lost princess who was stolen at birth and discovered, and restored to her birthright... and a heap of other things! And then I turned 12. And I wanted to paint for the rest of my life... And I'm gonna do that, ya hear! I wanted people to look at my artwork and say "Wow! I wish I could do that" So hey, that's what I'm gonna do!
------------------ From Katie Wright, 16 year old professional signie wannabe from Aus.
"Life is a great big canvas, throw all the paint on it that you can"
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HEY! INCREDIBLE! A Navy recruiter read this thread! If I re-enlist he's promised the Navy will let me shoot 3"50s at Democratic cruise ships! But I won't be deserting signs altogether. They're also going to let me letter the projectiles with cool slogans of my choice! Any messages you want me to "deliver", Si??
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------------------ St.Marie Graphics & Makin' Tracks Sound Studio Kalispell, Montana stmariegraphics@centurytel.net http://www.stmariegraphics.com 800 735-8026 We're chiseling every day of the week! :^)
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I always wanted to be a Fire Fighter or a Pro Hockey player, My knee injury at age 15 took me out of both, although I did get to try out for the farm team of the NY Rangers and made it till the final cut, I retired at 18...
After retirement I went to college for Arch Drafting and Comm. Art. I worked in several eng. firms only to be the last one hired, first one layed off...
I was a vol. fire fighter for awhile and that lead me into being a PAramedic for 12 years. Again my knee took it's toll and I retired again
I then fell in love with being an Over-the Road Truck driver, except the fact I was away from my family so much. While I was on the road I use to airbrush t-shirts and lic. plates in the truck stop parking lots for other drivers and this in turn lead me to a job in a sign shop...
I guess i have grown up, cause I am finally doing what I love to do and can work around my knee limitations......naaaaaaaaa I havn't grown up yet!!!!!!!!
------------------ Troy Haas "Metal_Leg" on mIRC
SAM Signs & RPM Auto Graphix 931 W. Columbia street Evansville,Indiana 47710 812-437-5367 Home of the: "Brush Fire at the Hose House" Letterhead Meet April 27-29th,2001
"Chaos, panic, disorder - my work here is done."
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I wanted to be a number of things as I grew up... but I didn't like the idea of post secondary education. So I became self taught instead. Best part is you don't know the rules that way. Makes you think harder too.
I've ended up doing a whole bunch of things I wans't really qualified for and had a blast doing them all!
I've owned a sign shop, been a professional pen & ink artist. I've done professional cartooning, written magazine articles, done photography, designed many buildings, done landscape design, owned commercial buildings, designed theme parks, done huge murals and a hundred other things.
Every day I am asked to do something new... and if it is appealing and something that had always been on my list of things I wanted to be when I grew up then I will figure out how to do it.
The whole journey had been a blast. The best part is the best part is yet to come.
Just think of what I can do or be tomorrow..... hmmm...
We can do anything we set out to do if we work at it. One step at a time!
-dan
------------------ Dan Sawatzky Sawatzky's Imagination Corporation Cultus Lake , British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.ca
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I always wanted to be me! Like a post above at 11 or 12 I got the cartoonist course from Cartoonist Exchange I think the company was called for $3.50 a month. I would have to draw up the lessons and mail it to Chicago I believe and then I would receive the corrections back etc etc etc. I never did complete the course but I had visions of being Syndicated and everything heheheh. I still have all the lesson books. I actually forgot about this until I read the above post about cartooning. What I do now is basically what I want to do and what I desire to do. And it does go back to the 11 and 12 year old kid oil painting and cartooning. I got off the course flying and fixing helicopters but smartened up and headed in the right direction hehehehe.
------------------ Mario G. Lafreniere aka Fergie.
jnsigns@onlink.net Chapleau, Ontario home of "The World's Largest Game Preserve" Spring is upon us,in Shania Twain Country. Farewell snow,here comes the mosquito!
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