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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[lilysea.livejournal.com]

Ones that I remember (not in order)

teacher
librarian
marine biologist
teacher-librarian
writer
academic/university lecturer
environmental scientist

[alias_sqbr]

Did you end up doing much science at school, or had you switched paths by that point?

[lilysea.livejournal.com]

I did Physics, Chemistry and Biology at highschool.

I enjoyed them (especially Physics - I really liked the 'philosophy' feel of early Physics - every action has an equal and opposite reaction - how cool is that?!!!) and did well in all of them until year 11, when I crashed and burned in Physics AND Chem because of my poor Maths.

(I was the only student in my Physics class not simultaneously enrolled in Calculus and Trigonometry. Which you kind of needed to pass Physics. Although the school never told us that...)

[alias_sqbr]

Yeah, maths is pretty inherent to physics, there were a couple of students in my first year physics class who hadn't done calculus and they were miserable (but very determined)