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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[out-fox.livejournal.com]

under 10 - zookeeper, then the slightly less controlling sounding conservationist. 10+ - artists in kid's mediums -book illustration, puppetry, film special effects.

A few months of art college put me off the latter right away, then I studied enviro science and did about 6 years with conservation NGO's.

[alias_sqbr]

Yeah, my parents were at art college when I was a kid, knocked the shine right off that career :)