Which is more than can be said for most people in his home city of Sheffield.
The man who learned his trade leaping around Tinsley Lock, Pond's Forge and Rother Valley is now one of Hollywood's elite stunt men.
He's fought with Batman, leapt from the Houses Of Parliament in Sherlock Homes and even had a speaking part in James Bond's Quantum of Solace.
He's the stunt double who does the diving, riding, leaping and falling through flames in the mega-bucks movies.
"It's a childhood dream come true for me," said 40-year-old Glenn who still considers Nether Edge, Sheffield his true home.
"I feel really privileged to have been able to make the dream become reality. I didn't know anybody connected with the movie industry as a kid, why would I? My Dad was in the RAF and my Grandad was a steel worker at Arthur Lee's.
"Being a stunt man was just one of those dreams. The careers teachers didn't have a clue what to say to me. I told them I liked an outdoor, active life and they suggested I become a fireman or a policeman."
The emergency services loss turned out to be the movie industry's gain. Eventually.
Glenn's route to tinsel town was far from straightforward and for a long time he looked more likely to be working in Hillsborough than Hollywood.
"I left school at 18, I didn't do very well at A-Levels," said Glenn who has a home in the French Pyrenees as well as one in Sheffield. "Then I got on a training course at Ulley Reservoir, it was European funded thing to train to be instructors in water and adventure sports.
"I did that for about a year and a half. After that, I got work at Ponds Forge as a lifeguard, worked my way to Rother Valley Country Park and became a senior instructor then went to Underbank Reservoir, Stocksbridge, and became head instructor there."
It was around that time that Glenn made the connection that was to change his life.
"The rock climber Ben Moon is a friend and he asked me if I would help train a stunt man to climb in the Peak District. I took him in over a period of two years and he was the inspiration I was looking for. He was the link to the stunt industry and he re-ignited my childhood passion, so I launched into full-on training.
"The stunt register is run by Equity and has a series of requirements you need to apply to be on the register. I did gym and trampoline work at Ponds Forge and weight training and general fitness to build me up to what I wanted to do.
"I eventually contacted the stunt co-ordinator for Heartbeat and Peak Practice to see if I could get some experience of being on a set to see how things work. It took me three years to get the experience and qualifications, that's a lot of investment in coaching and travelling. In 1999 I was accepted on to the British Stunt Register and my first job was on a thing called Musketeer.
"Unfortunately on that first film, I broke both my feet on the set in Paris when I landed awkwardly. I recovered and the first job I got after that was on the Hollyoaks Christmas Special in 1999. They were paying me to fly out to Barcelona at Christmas time and dive 45-feet off a ship into the harbour. I remember thinking to myself that this is what I got into this business for!
"After that, a film came up about climbing called Killing Me Softly and the lead was played by Joseph Fiennes. I did some rock climbing and that suited me. That was my first big chance."
And boy did he make the most of it. Glenn went on to play stunt doubles for some of the biggest names in Hollywood in blockbuster movies
"I have been in the last three Bond films and had dialogue in the last one and was number six on the cast," said Glenn who stands an athletic 5ft 11ins tall and weighs in at 11st 7lb.
"The first thrill was getting on the stunt register then to be in a Bond film and actually say the words 'James Bond' was beyond dreams. I never even considered that might be an opportunity.
As well as James Bond, Glen has appeared in Batman and Sherlock Holmes films and will be appearing in Sherlock Holmes 2, which they start filming in late summer. He plays Robert Downey Jnrs stunt double and landed himself the type of role every stunt man dreams of when the American superstar asked him to be his ful-time stunt man.
"It's an amazingly privileged position to be in," said Glenn who says a top stunt man can earn up to six figures a year - in a good year. Robert has surrounded himself with a core of people he trusts who help him and allow him to focus on what he's doing. It's a select group. I still have to pinch myself sometimes, it's all a bit amazing."
awards beckon for team player
SHEFFIELD super stuntman Glenn Foster is up for two major awards - the only Brit to be nominated.
Glen, who has performed stunts for both Iron Man films and James Bond has been nominated in the high work category and for best work with fire - both from Sherlock Holmes.
The fire nomination was for his spectacular 80ft fall onto a carriage from a movie-set Masonic Lodge window while engulfed in flames.
The second nomination is for a 55ft dive - almost twice the height of the top board at Pond's Forge - into the Thames from a film-set Houses Of Parliament.
"Last year I was nominated for the stunts I did in the speaking role I had in the Bond film Quantum of Solace but I didn't win that one," said Glenn.
"This time I would like to win for everyone on the team. Although I'm the one doing the stunt there is a huge stunt team behind me.
The Taurus World Stunt Awards ceremony takes place next month in Hollywood. There seven awards categories.
IT WAS a last-minute Christmas present that changed a young boys life.
Glenn Foster's mum and dad bought him a book called Hollywod Stunt Men when he was ten years old.
From that day on young Foster became obsessed with setting up stunts, falls and routines for he and his friends.
"A lot of lads go through a phase where they think they want to be a stunt man because they enjoy throwing themselves about," said Glenn who's travels as the son of RAF engineer Steve Foster and his wife Val meant he went to 16 schools as he was growing up. I remember the Hollywood Stunt Man book when I was about 10, it would have been 1980. That book was pretty instrumental in making me think that that was what I wanted to do.
"It talked about technique and different ways of doing stunts and, as a result, me and my friend used to set up stunts in a calculated way, falling from hay bales and stuff like that.
"We took it to a level where we were staging our own stunts from age 10 to 13 and that book was what did it. At that age I had no idea what the route was to get into anything like this and I thought I would maybe join the Forces and I went on a training course for the Marines.
"I soon realised that I thought too much to be a soldier."
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