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. 🤷

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      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

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      you know sometimes life happens and software development is something i wish i could do.

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        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. :)

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    Never had one. I’m 35 and still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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!

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    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.

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      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.

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      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!

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      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.

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      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.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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    Fighter jet pilot, but without the bombing or fighting or anything.

    Business man wheeling and dealing in a suit … seemed like fun.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.

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    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.