like what did you dream for in the future or wanted as a job for when you became an adult. what did you end up getting stuck with?
i dident really have a dream as a kid, those were the years when i messed around and learned. now im in high school struggling with life and being paranoid for dumb reasons.
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I wanted to be a chef for years, took a few cooking and baking classes when I was younger. Now I’m a software developer. 🤷
You could say you are “cooking up some tasty updates”
immediately booed off stage
It took me actually working in food service to realize that cooking in a restaurant is way different than cooking at home.
I couldn’t deal with the stress of a restaurant so now I do cybersecurity for an MSP
you know sometimes life happens and software development is something i wish i could do.
I guarantee you can do it. All it takes is sitting down for a few hours a week and just trying it and figuring out what you like. :)
Never had one. I’m 35 and still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.
Just be here now, man.
I’ve never once known what I wanted to do. It’s working out. But I did sell my soul to Uncle Sam for a while.
I wanted to be a lawyer to fight for the oppressed
Did that work out?
They were denied entry into law school. In short, oppressed.
Kid me had two things I wanted to be. Homeless and a soldier. I really liked war and I liked the idea of wandering around the city and being able to build a little hut wherever I wanted.
I didn’t really know what I wanted to be, but in hindsight it’s mostly because I didn’t really know any options. In a small town in the 90s it was finish school, then go work in a shop (girls) or a factory (boys). That was the assumption and basically the whole career “advice” setup at my school.
So it kinda makes sense that nobody there seemed to have any ambitions.
Thankfully, I eventually found out that you’re allowed to work with computers. Maybe someone would’ve mentioned that to me earlier if I’d been male but again, 90s. I taught myself web development, made a living off that for a while, eventually had enough and pivoted into being a small-time craft YouTuber!
When I was a little kid people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I simply answered “Happy”.
As I got older I learned what I enjoyed doing and I had some ideas.
First I wanted to be teacher, then I wanted to be an engineer, then I wanted to be a teacher again, then I became homeless so I had only the dream of getting enough of a job to get a roof over my head.
Then life got harder once I left highschool and basically all the support I was getting went away. I was homeless and I had a job that I was dumping all of my money into going to school to try and make it work. I really wanted to be a teacher.
Then some stuff happened causing life to get even harder and I dropped out. What little support I had went away.
I still had dreams of being a teacher as soon as I could get my life together.
Then my life fell apart further.
And further.
Eventually I got my life together enough to try again. But then life got hard again and I had to make a call. Risk homelessness again or drop out again.
I drive a forklift now… I have for nearly a decade and I’ll probably drive it for a long long time more.
Sometimes I think about becoming a teacher, but finances being what they are nowadays I could never afford the schooling and rent. And with what teacher’s salaries are if I took loans I’d never be able to pay them back.
Don’t worry bout it bud. Some ppl know what they wanna do and some ppl gotta find it. You’ll find it eventually.
I am in my 40s and still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.
For real though, I had a variety of jobs when I got out of school. I went into the military, went to college for something that I didn’t want to do, worked in several fields, fell into a job in technology, went back to school, and I’ll retire doing this unless something drastically changes.
And many people think they know what they wanna do and then realize it isn’t for them when they actually do it
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I’m glad I wasn’t the only one that wanted to work on a garbage truck, for the exact same reason!
I wanted to be an Imagineer and then at 50 years old, I fell into it after decades of being an IT Management Consultant.
Are they sending you to Florida? And did you consult for Disney prior to becoming an Imagineer?
Nope. I just started working on a passion project one day and made a Dark Ride in VR, and it ended up being my career as it was so well received. Turned that dark ride into a theme park. Still have years of work to imagineer more content, but that is half the fun.
I’m excited to try this out.
pilot
Im afraid of heights
I can’t get on a ladder taller than myself but am a pilot as my job. You might want to try it, it might not affect you as far as being afraid of heights is concerned.
Same! I was told that I could not be a pilot because I wear glasses, so I gave up. In hindsight, it was probably OK. I’ve known several pilots and the first few years can be really hard to have a family or even a relationship.
Ironically, 3 of the pilots I know are afraid of heights.
Fighter jet pilot, but without the bombing or fighting or anything.
Business man wheeling and dealing in a suit … seemed like fun.
In high school I wanted to be an architect. Graduated and went on to struggling for years working in retail til I finally had enough and went to college. Found out quickly that there was zero demand in my area for that and pivoted to being a mechanical engineer. I now have 13 years of doing that and am glad I went that option as I can go anywhere in the world with this skill set.
I wanted to be a civil engineer and design bridges and buildings basically since I was 10. When I went to university and took my first Statics/mechanics class, I noped the fuck out and studied chemistry instead.
Kid me wanted to be: an astronaut, a park ranger, a dinosaur and a detective. Though not all at the same time :)
Teenage me stopped caring and would just wish for the bullying to stop.
In the end I kind of rolled into a CS study and now here I am :) Life is more than just your job though, find fulfillment wherever you can.I wanted to be a reporter when I grew up. Beyond that I wasn’t picky. I have vague memories of my Kindergarten teacher asking everyone to draw what they wanted to be when they grew up and almost falling out of her seat when I drew the Fox News studio in full detail because it just came to my little mind.
