Geologe / Geologist Gewesen / Been Würde / Would
What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist.
I would have loved to have been a cricketer.
If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead.
I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.
I should have been a Trappist monk.
To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.
I've been homeless. I've worked at 7-Eleven.
You've got to be before you can do and do before you can have.
If we didn't do the tour, it would have been disastrous.