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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- Lab researcher (in some sort of biology or genetics field) was the big one, for quite a number of years - until I started actually doing work in a lab in first year and good god, not the job for me. (Also by this point I was a lot less antisocial.)

- Uni lecturer. But then I realised that I'd need to do lots of post-grad stuff and research and write essays - and. Uh. No.

- (I have no idea now.)

I had all the usual "wouldn't it be cool if I could..." fantasy occupations (writer, astronaut, archaeologist* etc.), but I never, afaicr, had the idea that I could/would actually do that for a living.

* This dream was busted soon after we got Foxtel and I started seeing shows which could all be summarised as "I've spent ten years digging and I've just found A SINGLE BONE, OMG!"

[alias_sqbr]

Haha, yeah that's why I didn't become a paleontologist etc :)

Uni lecturing also involves marking. And herding first years *shudder*