I wanted to be in the video game industry.
I went to college and wasted 2 years of my life and got 30k in debt with nothing to show for it when it was over because several of the teachers there, as well as the higher ups, lied to me about what courses I needed to graduate and how to go about taking them. I was going to be hired at the end of the 2nd year by Ubisoft to be one of the guys who models and textures all the throw a way objects in games, background stuff like like pop cans, barrels, litter etc., but they said they wouldn't hire me because I didn't have the diploma to say I graduated. So I never got my chance.
Since then I haven't really kept at my goal to be in the industry anymore as that experience rather soured me on the whole thing.
I guess currently my greatest ambition is to get my student loan paid off and finding a job that pays enough for me to live on my own. After that I would like to save up and go back to school for something to do with fixing computers or some other IT job that doesn't involve programming. To do that though I need work experience, and I can't do 99% of the jobs that are hiring in my area because they all involve standing for long periods of time and I have a bad back that won't let me do that. I managed to finally find a seasonal job on the 1st of this month, November 2010, but it ends next week and I have nothing lined up for after. I check several job sites and local flyers for job openings daily and send out resumes about as often, but they are mostly looking for managers with 10-15 years experience and the above mentioned.