I always wanted to be a train engineer, but being colorblind makes that impossible
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Wanted to be an architect, up until I was about 11 or 12. Then I wanted to be a Graphic Designer, which I now am!
I never had an easy time imagining a future for myself and I never had realistic goals. When I was a kid I wanted to be a Ghostbuster, then a power ranger. Then I think I disassociated for a long time, briefly got the idea to be a programmer in college, but that didn't work out since I was no good at it. Then I randomly had the idea to study genetics, which also didn't work out. I changed majors eight times in college.
Won't say what I do now so I don't get doxxed, but it's not exciting and it's a dead end job. I still don't know what I want, but maybe that's a good thing. I make music though so that's kind of neat.
I wanted to be an astronaut, a common dream for a kid. Later I wanted to be a biologist. Of course as you can see, I'm definitely not an astronaut nor a biologist lmao
I wanted to be a botanist/biologist, now as an adult, I work in a STEM field lol.
Game designer.
Iโm a Director of Game Design now.
Tie between judge or crossing guard. Turns out I just love a good Halloween costume. Iโve worked in higher ed my entire career.
A news anchor
Astronaut. Space was my first love. At least up until about first/second grade (age 6-7).
Eventually, I became more interested in computers. My dad is a programmer in an IT capacity and he used to bring home parts from mainframes or servers. I was fascinated with these components. He would also write little QBasic programs for me that did cool graphical stuff, like colored bubbles floating on screen or colored "laser lines." He'd bring me to his office to see the "computer room," which was just like an entire floor of mainframes and servers and tape machines. I was amazed and thought I wanted to be programmer like him.
Around my preteen/teen yrs, I taught myself HTML/CSS and started making my own websites. By high school, I was taking programming classes.
I went to college for CS, but I also got a job as a part time website manager and email designer. Though I also became that guy who knew how to fix my coworkers issues with their computers. For various reasons, I never finished my CS degree, instead just opting for a 2yr degree.
Today, I'm solidly in the IT realm. Mainly in end user support, but I also do some more sysadmin-y stuff with the network and servers and even procurement. Still do some light web and email stuff, but it's usually more on the technical side these days. Been just over 18yrs since I first got the parttime gig. I'm now on my second stint with this group and I'm the IT Manager. In a department of one!
The prompt for this post is missing a fundamental bit of context for each response:
- What class were you born in to?
- How active was your parent(s) involvement in your college/career prep/pursuit?
- Did you struggle to pay for education and have to work through school or did you get to focus solely on learning and social networking?