What did you want to be?

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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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early: intrepid explorer, braving the Amazon et etc

high school: marine biologist, then medical researcher. 'The Double Helix' by James Watson was definitely a factor here, only I wanted to be more like Rosalind Franklin (serious, hard-working) and less like Crick and Watson (partying hard and stealing Franklin's work in order to get the break-through). My how things change...

The main reason I ended up a doctor was because someone pointed out that getting to medical researcher via medicine instead of science meant a better career path. Luckily I discovered I hate being in laboratories, and quite like people, and problem solving, and shift work...

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Oooh, I forgot archaeologist. And my more recent goal of lady of leisure.

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lady of leisure

Heh. I've had that goal from an early age, I just never saw any way to acheive it :)