What did you want to be?

[sqbr]

I have an idea for a poll (inspired by this one and it's comments), but first need some data. So: what career(s) did you seriously consider in your youth? Lets say school-age, 5-17, since before that you're too young to know much, and after that you've plausibly started actually training for it. Any extra interesting information you feel like adding is welcome :)

Myself? In order: Writer, teacher(from early childhood till I did work experience as a teacher in year 11 :)), actor/comedian, astronomer/theoretical physicist (which lasted until my first astronomy lecture in second year :/)

Plus lots of vague ponderings that didn't last long.

And of course I got to combine a lot of these working at Scitech, which was fun for a while but reaffirmed that I do not, in fact, want to be a teacher or actor. Doing My Phd, and my webcomic, have somewhat satisfied the writing bug too.

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[tommmo.livejournal.com]

We start similarly...

From very early in my life until I started high school I wanted to be an author, which is funny because I didn't read very much when I was younger. I wrote a lot of crazy shit, though - stories that would start with a family trip to the zoo and end (almost accidentally) with us fighting giant spiders from outer space or something. Go figure. I think I eventually realised that my imagination VASTLY outweighted my writing ability, so that idea eventually faded.

Then throughout a large portion of highschool I wanted to be a teacher. At first I wanted to be a primary school teacher, then later I changed my mind and decided I wanted to teach high school mathematics. A small part of me still does.

In later high school, I decided I wanted to do "something with computers", in as naive a way as that term suggests.

[tommmo.livejournal.com]

Actually, when I think about it some more, I think the desire to teach high school maths might not have hit me until I was studying maths at Uni. I think I mostly wanted to teach primary school when I was that young.

[alias_sqbr]

I was thinking about what allows you to plot without description: roleplaying! :)

Yeah, I was very much going to teach either primary school, or whatever I was currently planning as my major at uni (english, then physics)

And I only did CS at uni because my then boyfriend persuaded me it would be cool as a fill-in unit :)