My favorite ice breaker. What do/did you want to be as an adult?
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Inventor!
and now, I kinda am.
an “astronaut paleontologist” who digs up fossils on other worlds
That sounds hella cool. But I’ve seen too many Ridley Scott movies, which makes me hesitant to root for you to achieve that dream.
A voice actor. I do call center work. It’s sad but I get people asking if I’m an actor every now and then which is nice.
Took a dumb “assessment” in grade school and it said I should be a pilot.
Later I didn’t know tearing apart computers and getting apps to work could be a job and studied engineering. Halfway through that I found systems administration.
I’ll start: A psychologist
Veterinarian, marine biologist, or actor depending on what age you asked me. Now, I am none of those things.
Astronaut. Later in highschool the assessments said I should be a Helicopter Pilot.
lol, that’s oddly specific. What qualities make someone a good helicopter pilot instead of a plane pilot?
A blatant disregard for the rules of nature.
A hobo, going from place to place subsisting.
Used to be “oh, I want to do something with computers and programming”.
By now that’s solidified into either some sort of sysadmin, or something in the field of designing microprocessors.
I’m also considering instead training to become an ATC after I’m done with my CS degree.
I’ve always wanted to be a free creative person, inventing or just making things in different fields and I am such a person now, though not as free as I’d like to be…
I wanted to be a pilot.
I got my licenses and worked as a flight instructor for awhile. Haven’t flown in years, probably never going to again.
Well with a username like that, probably a good call 🤣 my significant other is in the same boat although he never actually made it to get the license. He loves flying but that whole “can’t take medications for the mental health” thing kind of ruined that for him.
I very briefly entertained the notion of taking some flight lessons, then I read about that same thing and walked away.
Pretty stupid that we expect people who fly planes to fucking rawdog their mental illness…
Amen.
I wanted to be a jedi knight.
I am a software engineer.
I wanted to become a software engineer
Now I’m a Jedi knight 😞
I wanted to be a professional illustrator. Nowadays I barely illustrate as a hobby. Although I still enjoy it I don’t really have the skills for it.
I’m a lawyer and a programmer though. For many years I hated being a lawyer, but I would say that I’ve finally reached a point in my life and career where I’m happy with it.
I’m in a somewhat similar boat. I wanted to design video games. Create worlds, write characters, work on mechanics. I went to school for computer science and took a bunch of classes to learn skills necessary to make games. Then I made two games. Turns out I hate it.
Now I’m a lawyer and I sue drug companies for a living. I still spend time building my little worlds, but I don’t think I’ll ever make them into anything more than TTRPG campaigns.
I went through a few things but my favorite in retrospect was demolition derby driver
Honestly, pretty much what I do now just probably a more glamorized or idealistic version of it. My favorite toys growing up were wooden building blocks and Duplo and from a very young age I (incorrectly) mapped what I enjoyed about those things to the profession of architecture and that’s what I always told people that’s what I wanted to do.
Luckily I was able to figure out that what I really enjoyed and wanted to do was engineering. As long as I’m designing things and solving problems I’m pretty happy. It doesn’t really matter what the context is.
