Well, when I was really little, I wanted to own a Chuck E. Cheese. Obviously, that didn't happen, but the idea was that I'd get to be surrounded by greasy pizza and singing robots and arcade games forever. Ahh, youth.
After that, I considered being a veterinarian, until I learned the harsh truth that I'd have to put animals down, and given the only animals I could ever kill were mosquitoes, that went out the window.
Then for a while I let it drop until my mom suggested pharmacy, since I loved and was good at chemistry. I spent several years under the assumption I'd be a pharmacist. And even ended up going to like the top pharmacy school in the country. But in retrospect, it wasn't even my calling to be a pharmacist, just something that everyone assumed I'd be, and that I'd spent years
convincing myself that I wanted. So when I ended up not having the drive to do it, I had no idea what to do.
Then I picked up a programming course. It was just on a whim, but I loved it and was good at it. The funny thing is that I remember talking to other people in high school about programming and that I really lit up hearing about it, but I was too focused on pharmacy for it to go anywhere. If I'd followed that instinct instead of actively turning it down to focus on pharmacy, life might have turned out very differently.