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Rockstar or Footballer?

Dave2l
Dave2l Posts: 8,880
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If you had the choice for either dream like profession, What would you do?

If you feel strongly about something else there is the "other" option.

My answer very narrowly slants towards rockstar. Only if my music was really good and I was proud of it.
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  • RedPanda
    RedPanda Posts: 5,018
    I'm going with 'other'. I'd be a decent sized DJ, travelling the world making and playing music I love (techno), getting paid £5k+ a gig and remaining anonymous in the public eye. It would be a blessed existence.
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    Rockstar
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,954
    Rockstar
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    Rockstar. I was always rubbish at football.

    Being in my 50s, along with a lot of people my age, I grew up wanting to be an Astronaut.

    These days I would like to win the Euromillions and I would spend most of it on running a team in the 24-hour race at Le Mans. I used to think it would be good to own a football club, but look at the abuse owners get these days.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Would be a filmmaker. Good enough to be remembered and be a millionaire but be able to walk down the street without getting noticed... Much.
  • Draizetrain
    Draizetrain Posts: 801
    Easy choice, Rockstar. You're allowed to act 'bad'....in fact it's expected of you!

  • Frontline9
    Frontline9 Posts: 764
    Rockstar. Unlimited sex and drugs.
    I'd be dead by 40 though
  • creepyaddick
    creepyaddick Posts: 6,152
    Rockstar

    Having watched this last night, it'd have to be in the 60's/70's though

    http://www.channel5.com/shows/most-shocking-moments-in-pop/episodes/most-shocking-moments-in-pop
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,983
    Rock star all day long, half the life ... But living twice as hard
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,880
    As others have said, being in the public eye would put a big dampner on things, I for one would hate it. You have to be a certain kind of person to carry that on your back.

    If I was a premier league footballer on 20k a week and could roam round Bluewater without any recognition, I'd be very happy. Able to blend in, have the best of both worlds.

    Give ya this one.

    Playing for England at a world cup, or, headlining Glastonbury?

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  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,326
    edited April 2014
    Other - zoologist and animal conservationist.

    Give me a bit of solitude and the company of animals. I don't really do humans.
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,876
    RedPanda said:

    I'm going with 'other'. I'd be a decent sized DJ, travelling the world making and playing music I love (techno), getting paid £5k+ a gig and remaining anonymous in the public eye. It would be a blessed existence.

    Great shout this. I'd go down the house music route, perhaps a nice residency in Ibiza for the summer, Vegas in the winter.

    That or a pro boxer

  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,896
    For me it would have to be a footballer, I would love to play my entire career at Charlton, turning down higher money elsewhere etc.

    Shame I'm crap! Although I have a much more powerful shot than Simon Church... But then again so does my Gran and she's dead.
  • mr.se7
    mr.se7 Posts: 273
    Rockstar all day.
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,880
    AddickUpNorth said:

    Other - zoologist and animal conservationist.

    Give me a bit of solitude and the company of animals. I don't really do humans.

    See that monkey planet the other night? Brilliant.

    I wrote an essay on why it would be better to be a gorilla then a human.
    Might try and dig it out.

    A paid decent job regarding zoology is probably very hard to get into but yes, quite appealing.
  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    Would have to be footballer, I love my music but haven't a clue how to play a musical instrument and I certainly can't sing.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,930
    Dave2l said:

    As others have said, being in the public eye would put a big dampner on things, I for one would hate it. You have to be a certain kind of person to carry that on your back.

    If I was a premier league footballer on 20k a week and could roam round Bluewater without any recognition, I'd be very happy. Able to blend in, have the best of both worlds.

    Give ya this one.

    Playing for England at a world cup, or, headlining Glastonbury?

    20k pw? You need a new agent mate.
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    Footballer till the age of 30 and then porn star for the next 10 years followed by a leisurely 3rd career as a QC.
  • UrbanChupacabra
    UrbanChupacabra Posts: 541
    I'd be David Attenborough... After having a career at Charlton
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,972
    RedPanda said:

    I'm going with 'other'. I'd be a decent sized DJ, travelling the world making and playing music I love (techno), getting paid £5k+ a gig and remaining anonymous in the public eye. It would be a blessed existence.

    That makes 2 of us!


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  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,443
    Rockstar but like someone said above would have to be in the 60's or 70's, proper excess!
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,583
    Other, a Richard Branson type
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,880
    Astronaut, zoologist, porn star, DJ, added to the list...also.film director.
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,983
    Hastingsaddick said:

    Would have to be footballer, I love my music but haven't a clue how to play a musical instrument and I certainly can't sing.


    I think it is a hyperthetical question and not about what you could achieve with your current skill set :)
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Footballer the best ever the world has seen

    Scoring loads of goals

    Winning and scoring in every major cup comp

    Winnjng the World Cup and euro

    Scoring In the final to win them

    Never giving an interview never doing the wag bullshit

    Staying at cafc for my whole career making them a world football power and one of the richest in the world and in return being the best paid footballer ever
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,174
    Music all day long for me.
    Longer career, stay in bed longer, eat and drink what you want!

    That said if Jose Riga wants me I'm available to replace SpongeChurch!
  • JollyRobin
    JollyRobin Posts: 1,706
    International cricketer. You spend half your time out in the sun, the other half having a laugh with your mates in the changing rooms and when it rains you don't have to go to work.
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,344
    Footballer. I like to think I'd forever stay at Charlton and smash Bartram's and Peacock's appearance records, going on to captain both club and country to unprecedented glory.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 96,041
    The Red Robin said:

    Footballer. I like to think I'd forever stay at Charlton and smash Bartram's and Peacock's appearance records, going on to captain both club and country to unprecedented glory.

    This...

    At the end of the day I'll always be a Charlton fan and could never imagine putting the shirt on belonging to another club (wouldnt feel right even if they were just my employers as my Saturdays are spent watching this club)
  • chester_conrad
    chester_conrad Posts: 738
    Footballer. More to the point, a non-goal scoring forward. Would guarantee me a 15 year career picking up wages at charlton.

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