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.

Comments

[velithya]

I was going to be a doctor because mum and dad were doctors.

Then my brother went into medical school and I realised that I didn't want to be a doctor, and I liked computers and had to pick _something_, so I thought, well, okay, I'll go and do software engineering.

And then I got a part-time job at a medical practice and changed degrees halfway through, and am now a medical secretary/accountant and going to be an author.

[col-ki.livejournal.com]

Surely you mean you are an author, who happens to do do some work as a medical secretary/accountant?