"I Swear By Apollo, The Healer..." or "What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?"

[Seil]

So yeah, hopefully this year, I'm going to be accepted into a nursing program at school. I still have to do an assessment test and get a few more pre-reqs in, but by this time next year, I could be nursing and stuff. It seems like it'll be pretty fun, and I'll get to be helpin' people and stuff while being paid well. Win-win.

Though I've been talking to a few people 'round school and they're talking about all the different directions their lives have taken and how they've gotten to where they are now, and I wondered... That question that your kindergarten teacher asked you, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Are you that thing, or did you change your mind after deciding that a monkey wasn't a good career path?

[bluestarultor]

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.

[Doc ock rokc]

Mine has been quite forward in comparison to Blue's
When I first beat Mario brothers (2 years old it astounded my brother) I said I wanted to make levels for it (thinking that Mario was the one and only game).
When I first got on a computer (3 ish) I put a password on the Partition and said I want to play with computers.
When I got Into school I played around on both computers and Typewriters and said I want to Make something to put Typewriting on the computers but better
When I went to middle school I wanted to Make Video games again (after playing with RPG maker).
When I was told that through a test to be determinant if I was retarded or not that I got the HIGHEST GRADE IN THE DISTRICT (record still holds) they told me to get into Engineering Naturally I went for Computers.
I joined the Computer maintenance class and took to that like a fish to water.
And Now I am excepted to a collage Going to go into their Computer science Engineering.
So...yeah.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Mmhm, I remember for a while I wanted to be something like a paleontologist or a marine biologist, at least until my interest in art really kicked in. Toyed with studying medicine, but decided I was too squeamish around the real stuff.

[Amake]

I never wanted to be anything. I wanted to help people, to write and to have fun. And I'm doing all of those things.

[Krylo]

Independently wealthy.

And no. I still haven't figured out how to pull it off without working (and if you're working you aren't really independently wealthy). However, if I could get a one time investment of $500,000 I could get a reasonable facsimile via high dividend stocks.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

I've always wanted to get into the Game Simulation Industry. But lately after a bunch of unfortunate pit falls college wise. I'm beginning to think I'm not going to be accomplishing anything out side of writing online stories/comics publishing novels.

[Julford Hajime]

Honestly, I've never cared what job I ended up getting. I was perfectly happy with myself when I worked Burger King drive-thru, and I've never had a job that made me feel any less content before/during/after work on any given day. I'm simple like that, I suppose >.>

Like, I'm going to school now to become a certified teacher, but I'm considering dropping out to join the military for a long list of reasons I won't go into here, but that I can honest-to-God say begins with "Less work involved".

[Professor Smarmiarty]

When I was younger I wanted to be a tiger. That didn't work out exactly.

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

When I was younger I wanted to be a tiger. That didn't work out exactly.

You could still shoot for cougar.

Same family and all.