I wanted to be a ninja and/or an astronaut. Maybe both. I even tried to save money when I was kid to go to space camp in Florida. It never happened unfortunately. I did have a chance to take some martial arts lessons from a friend with whom I’d helped to get his first acting gig(he had background in Taijutsu) but it was just about the time I was considering moving to Texas.
I wanted to be a newspaper reporter in a fast paced newsroom. Now I do freelance writing in my spare time for the local paper. Guess I kinda sorta did it just smaller and much, much slower paced.
@tnhillbillygal I told ya we might be related. We’re getting closer. I wanted to work in an office with a desk and a typewriter. I spent 24 years in advertising at a newspaper.
I wanted to be an archeologist. I did not achieve that dream, but I’m pretty happy about that – I like computers. Although, my grown-up dream job is geologist, which is also basically digging in the dirt.
But, I don’t even know who hires geologists besides oil/natural gas companies, whom I wouldn’t want to work for.
Map companies. A friend is a ground water geologist and he helps decide if there is an intermittent stream on topo maps… As an FYI this is often an educated guess with no reality check. Lesson - don’t count on finding water if the map indicates an intermittent stream.
Urban ground water run off mapping companies (again ground water geologist) that many cities, architects, some insurance companies (use this as an adjunct to flood maps), etc. use.
@katylava I wanted to be an archaeologist so bad when I was little…well, I really wanted to be Indiana Jones lol
For years I thought I’d be a veterinarian. My mom’s best friend was a vet tech and her husband was a vet so I spent a lot of time shadowing them at the clinic and got to sit in on several surgeries. I loved every minute of it but I realized I just don’t have the heart to handle dying animals.
I fell in love with Geology in High School as well but my mom convinced me it wasn’t a good career path. I still regret not following through with it.
I’ve been working at a software company for just over 9 years now. Definitely not a my dream job but it could be worse.
When I was about 3, my dad asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I told him with great enthusiasm that I wanted to be a giraffe. He said “you can’t grow up to be a giraffe”. I thought he was forbidding me to grow up to be a giraffe, not that it wasn’t physically possible. I still remember how mad I was at him for crushing my dream of giraffehood. I briefly wanted to be a vet, until I found out that vets routinely have to put animals to sleep. I wanted to be a jockey and that had some real legs on it. I had a rep for horse handling and got job offers from a local racing stable to exercise their horses. But that summer I grew too tall and seriously woman shaped. Then I moved on to dreaming of being a writer, my first non animal-related career dream. I did write a lot when I was young, but when I took a career as a bureaucrat I found that spending days in factual writing made it difficult to write fiction at night. I could go back to writing now that I’m retired, it’s so easy to find an audience online. Perhaps one day I will. But for now art scratches that itch. I never dreamed of spending my life as a bureaucrat, but I’m very glad I did. In my 30 years with Community Development I personally got to spend about $60 million in Federal tax dollars making sure vulnerable populations in my community were safe and cared for. I took applications, reviewed and made recommendations, wrote contracts and adminstrated about $2 million per year in funding for food, shelter, clothing, health clinics, education and recreation for children, seniors, victims of crime or abuse, and others in need. A career I never imagined, that I fell into by chance, and am so grateful to have had the privelege of spending my life in meaningful work.
@moondrake That sounds pretty awesome, I have some background in public policy through college so I can understand how working in government can be at times.
@moondrake after watching a horse die from an aneurysm and bleed out of it’s head, whatever last little shreds I had of wanting to become a vet were long gone.
@moonhat it was one of the first times to find out that I could be fairly clear headed when terrible things were happening. The poor girl that owned the horse was maybe 14 at the time and me and a few other people stood there and buried the blood with sand with our boots so she could say goodbye.
I actually had no idea. The world of adulthood and jobs looked so huge and baffling as a kid.
I ended up in statistics because I’m good at it. It’s not the font of my greatest passions but it’s a living, and I’m glad I get to do it in an industry that is at least attempting to be ethical.
I’m still looking forward to the day when I don’t have to work full time and can focus on friendships, community building, and hobbies instead. But I wouldn’t want to attach obligation/a paycheck to any one of those things.
@Targaryen I have taught stats. I have found that presuming if you can do the math means you understand what you are doing/what it means is fiction for many students. As a result I focused first on what something did, how it would answer a question for you - all of this using words only with examples - and then backtracked into the math. For students whose brains clicked off when an equation was put on the board I figured a work around for that too. I also told them the best part is when you can just use a computer drop down menu to do the math, but unfortunately to survive this class you also have to learn how to do the math tricks. Had a lot more students doing better when I figured out that I’d be better off using this approach than the ‘traditional’ one. Teaching stats is a pain and I was glad when “my turn” to do it was over though as it was grading hell.
@Kidsandliz The issue I had/have with stats is that it’s not just math, it’s math that I needed to find the math before I can do the math. My patience with math is limited.
@Kawa
I don’t ever remember learning this in math. When do they teach it? I wonder if it was added to the curriculum after I graduated, I know a lot changed the years after I graduated.
I wanted to be a author. All I did as a kid was read and write some lame stories on my PC. I’ve never gone back and read any of it, but I can not imagine it is anything good.
When I was little, I used to tell everyone that I wanted to be a cash register so I could push buttons all day. (I did not know the word cashier existed.) I did end up being a customer service rep for Office Max for a couple years in high school so I guess I sorta fulfilled my dream job - though the buttons on their machines were terrible! No fun to play with at all.
I wanted to be an architect (as George Costanza did…) but it took me a while to realize that there was math involved and I changed my mind pretty quick
@mfladd@moonhat As a teen I went down to the union hall to take the test to be a carpenter. Math! All that board feet and shit…I crashed. Probably nowadays there’s an app for that, but back then it was pencil and paper.
Astronaut and/or fighter pilot. Closest I came was working for a company that built flight simulators. (But working for Evans & Sutherland was a secondary dream job, once I went into computers & electronics.)
I once scared myself to death when I thought I’d crashed a multi-million dollar image generator system by trying to loop an airliner. Turns out a power substation failed just as I got to the top of the loop and had the plane fully inverted.
@ruouttaurmind Ok, I was in Va Beach the other week with the kids. We were out early in the morning watching dolphins while we were swimming. I absolutely thought to myself that I soooo would like to be a dolphin.
@mfladd@ruouttaurmind@Targaryen that’s funny, i wanted to be a cameraman briefly in high school when i lived in virginia beach, and i visited the wavy tv 10 station because of that.
@katylava In grade school I commandeered my mother’s ancient VHS camcorder and lugged that thing everywhere. I spent every penny on VHS tapes and wound up with over a hundred of them ($5 to $7 each back then). Spent hours and hours doing camcorder-to-VCR editing and using poster board and a marker for titles and credits.
Now I use Adobe Premier and can accomplish in minutes what used to take hours to do. Plus enhancements, color corrections and digital effects and titles. SMH when I think about all the lost hours, not to mention the money spent on tapes.
@Targaryen I would love to but there are so many reasons. I am too old for it to financially make sense. I have financial commitments that must be met and it would be impossible if I was back in school. Oh and I am still paying off my business degrees lol so I guess life is in the way now
I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.
I know at one point I did want to be an astronaut. I remember learning that they had to have 20/20 vision, and telling my parents during a drive to my grandmother’s house that I knew I couldn’t be an astronaut because I couldn’t see the leaves on the trees. My parents didn’t believe me then, but I got glasses a few months later. I never did go to space…
@djslack Barring any future civilian flights you can go up to the very outer edge of Earth on some private fighter jet flights. It’s not cheap though. I looked years ago a flight in a Mig out of Russia was like 10k. I guess they’ve got more options now. https://www.flyfighterjet.com/edge-of-space-flight
Forestry Game Warden… and not really but almost. As we lived in a forest for 23 yrs and people were always dumping their unwanteds on us. Just never got to bust them for it.
Magician. When my fav uncle visited he did a bit of great close up magic so I started with books from my elementary school and then onto small magic kits.
Practicing very hard and saving up my grass cutting money I over came stuttering and stage freight and by Jr. High had a pretty great semi-pro stage show which I kept up with into my sophomore year of uni.
I had a mix of stage, mentalism and a little dove magic all mixed in. Great fun!
I personally am terribly afraid of blood, in any situation in which I need help. I always call the nurse. Once, when they took blood from my hand, I fainted because I saw so much blood.
When I was small, I had a list…and added to it regularly. I was so disappointed when I got old enough and realized I wouldn’t live long enough to be all of those things.
But when I was in the 8th grade or so, I saw my first stage play, and then my second…‘South Pacific’. I was mesmerized at the way the audience reacted when the lighting changed. I could barely keep up with the play because I was watching the lighting so much. So I decided I wanted to go into theatrical stage lighting.
I had family problems, and went to school to become a respiratory therapist to get away from home and to work my way through college to follow that goal. Illness and the resulting bills kept me working as an RT (plus, I loved it!), so it never became a reality.
I DID eventually go back and get my degree in music and got to work a lot with the stage during that, even doing some lighting, but it wasn’t the same as having a career. I enjoyed it, though, and was thankful for the experiences. I still dream about where that might have taken me…New York? Chicago? Hollywood? Who knows…
I had a very fulfilling career as an RT, and I owned 3 successful businesses, as well, before retiring.
I can’t complain…but I do still dream.
Growing up the only thing I really seriously wanted to be was an astronaut. I loved all things space related, went to Space Camp a couple of times and loved every minute of it. I thought it would be the coolest thing to get to float around all weightless AND do science experiments all day. That sounded like my idea of a dream job.
Then I found out that to even have a shot at the astronaut corps you really had to either be a military pilot or have a hard science PhD. And even that wasn’t a sure thing. As I got older and investigated more about the careers that were similar but weren’t being an astronaut I realized I didn’t want to do any of those things. Where I grew up (home town of Henry Ford) if you were even halfway decent at math and science your default career goal was to become an engineer. But I still wanted to do something with space exploration and travel so I went aerospace engineering.
I figured I could design the structures of space ships and that would be almost as awesome as being an astronaut. Structures I understood (I loved Lego almost as much as I loved space…still do). Then I got into my structures classes at school and, oh my goodness no! What??? Why?!? AAAHHH!!! Fortunately I was also taking the basic aerodynamics courses and that stuff just made sense. And then I got deeper into controls and that was a fun challenge. So now I do stability and controls work to help design cool high performance aircraft. I’ve been back to Space Camp a couple of times as an adult. Most of my house is decorated with Lego sets and I help teach and inspire the next generation of little geeklings by coaching a FIRST Lego League (stem/robotics) team.
I think 10 year old me might be a little disappointed I haven’t made it to space yet. But would get distracted by all of the Lego sets and would forgive today-years-old me.
When I was really young I wanted to be a dancer. I did teach dance through the community Ed program for about 5 years so I kinda did that. Then when I got to be in middle school I really wanted to work for the FBI, that was pretty much my dream for a long time. I did graduate with my BA in criminal justice and had all intentions on becoming a parole officer but I got seriously injured at work. Right now I take care of my father who needs help.
Wanted to be a teacher (like my mom). Instead I’m a tax auditor. It worked out for the best! I don’t like people (especially kids) and not liking people works well for my job.
It seems that every person at least once in his life remembered who he wanted to become as a child, and I am no exception. I first wanted to become a musician. I wanted to travel to different cities and delight people with music, seeing how they become happy thanks to me. I also wanted to become a clown (I don’t remember who I wanted to become before — a musician or a clown). It just seemed fun to me: people are laughing, I feel good, and I’m all so decorated and funny. I also wanted to become a pharmacist. I even specifically learned what this profession is called. But I didn’t just want to mess around with all sorts of medicines there, I wanted to invent a medicine to achieve immortality (I promised this to my great-grandmother, but she didn’t wait). But in my teens, closer to graduation, I clearly decided that I wanted to be a phlebotomist. I started looking for courses or schools to teach this profession and came across school where I was able to get the necessary knowledge for work. In fact, I can advise you to dream and do only what you love!
I wanted to be a ninja and/or an astronaut. Maybe both. I even tried to save money when I was kid to go to space camp in Florida. It never happened unfortunately. I did have a chance to take some martial arts lessons from a friend with whom I’d helped to get his first acting gig(he had background in Taijutsu) but it was just about the time I was considering moving to Texas.
@Targaryen
TMI
Ohhhhh, nvmd
@lichme I’ll fix that.
@lichme @Targaryen I think you made it worse.
@lichme @Limewater I didst has’t a chance to taketh some martial arts lessons from a friend with whom i’d holp to receiveth his first acting gig
@lichme @Targaryen You probably should have quit when you were hooking up with your friend.
I wanted to be a newspaper reporter in a fast paced newsroom. Now I do freelance writing in my spare time for the local paper. Guess I kinda sorta did it just smaller and much, much slower paced.
@tnhillbillygal I told ya we might be related. We’re getting closer. I wanted to work in an office with a desk and a typewriter. I spent 24 years in advertising at a newspaper.
Architect or Starving Artist.
Unfortunately, both yield the same standard of living, so still an unfufilled dream at the half-century mark.
UPS Driver. Seemed cool to just drive around delivering boxes. Still sounds pretty fun most days.
I wanted to be an archeologist. I did not achieve that dream, but I’m pretty happy about that – I like computers. Although, my grown-up dream job is geologist, which is also basically digging in the dirt.
But, I don’t even know who hires geologists besides oil/natural gas companies, whom I wouldn’t want to work for.
@katylava
Map companies. A friend is a ground water geologist and he helps decide if there is an intermittent stream on topo maps… As an FYI this is often an educated guess with no reality check. Lesson - don’t count on finding water if the map indicates an intermittent stream.
Urban ground water run off mapping companies (again ground water geologist) that many cities, architects, some insurance companies (use this as an adjunct to flood maps), etc. use.
@katylava @Kidsandliz The local water company where my office is located has a geologist on staff. I’m assuming it’s for the purpose described.
@katylava I wanted to be an archaeologist so bad when I was little…well, I really wanted to be Indiana Jones lol
For years I thought I’d be a veterinarian. My mom’s best friend was a vet tech and her husband was a vet so I spent a lot of time shadowing them at the clinic and got to sit in on several surgeries. I loved every minute of it but I realized I just don’t have the heart to handle dying animals.
I fell in love with Geology in High School as well but my mom convinced me it wasn’t a good career path. I still regret not following through with it.
I’ve been working at a software company for just over 9 years now. Definitely not a my dream job but it could be worse.
When I was about 3, my dad asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I told him with great enthusiasm that I wanted to be a giraffe. He said “you can’t grow up to be a giraffe”. I thought he was forbidding me to grow up to be a giraffe, not that it wasn’t physically possible. I still remember how mad I was at him for crushing my dream of giraffehood. I briefly wanted to be a vet, until I found out that vets routinely have to put animals to sleep. I wanted to be a jockey and that had some real legs on it. I had a rep for horse handling and got job offers from a local racing stable to exercise their horses. But that summer I grew too tall and seriously woman shaped. Then I moved on to dreaming of being a writer, my first non animal-related career dream. I did write a lot when I was young, but when I took a career as a bureaucrat I found that spending days in factual writing made it difficult to write fiction at night. I could go back to writing now that I’m retired, it’s so easy to find an audience online. Perhaps one day I will. But for now art scratches that itch. I never dreamed of spending my life as a bureaucrat, but I’m very glad I did. In my 30 years with Community Development I personally got to spend about $60 million in Federal tax dollars making sure vulnerable populations in my community were safe and cared for. I took applications, reviewed and made recommendations, wrote contracts and adminstrated about $2 million per year in funding for food, shelter, clothing, health clinics, education and recreation for children, seniors, victims of crime or abuse, and others in need. A career I never imagined, that I fell into by chance, and am so grateful to have had the privelege of spending my life in meaningful work.
@moondrake I still want to grow up to be a giraffe. Or maybe a pterodactyl. Don’t crush my dream.
@moondrake @rockblossom
@moondrake That sounds pretty awesome, I have some background in public policy through college so I can understand how working in government can be at times.
@moondrake after watching a horse die from an aneurysm and bleed out of it’s head, whatever last little shreds I had of wanting to become a vet were long gone.
@RiotDemon oh my gosh! that sounds absolutely horrible. I’m so sorry you had to see that.
@moonhat it was one of the first times to find out that I could be fairly clear headed when terrible things were happening. The poor girl that owned the horse was maybe 14 at the time and me and a few other people stood there and buried the blood with sand with our boots so she could say goodbye.
I actually had no idea. The world of adulthood and jobs looked so huge and baffling as a kid.
I ended up in statistics because I’m good at it. It’s not the font of my greatest passions but it’s a living, and I’m glad I get to do it in an industry that is at least attempting to be ethical.
I’m still looking forward to the day when I don’t have to work full time and can focus on friendships, community building, and hobbies instead. But I wouldn’t want to attach obligation/a paycheck to any one of those things.
@Kawa statistics was a nightmare for me. Glad you were good at it.
@Targaryen I have taught stats. I have found that presuming if you can do the math means you understand what you are doing/what it means is fiction for many students. As a result I focused first on what something did, how it would answer a question for you - all of this using words only with examples - and then backtracked into the math. For students whose brains clicked off when an equation was put on the board I figured a work around for that too. I also told them the best part is when you can just use a computer drop down menu to do the math, but unfortunately to survive this class you also have to learn how to do the math tricks. Had a lot more students doing better when I figured out that I’d be better off using this approach than the ‘traditional’ one. Teaching stats is a pain and I was glad when “my turn” to do it was over though as it was grading hell.
@Kidsandliz The issue I had/have with stats is that it’s not just math, it’s math that I needed to find the math before I can do the math. My patience with math is limited.
@Kawa
I don’t ever remember learning this in math. When do they teach it? I wonder if it was added to the curriculum after I graduated, I know a lot changed the years after I graduated.
I wanted to be a author. All I did as a kid was read and write some lame stories on my PC. I’ve never gone back and read any of it, but I can not imagine it is anything good.
@FeralRants Go back and take a look. Might be something you can take from it.
When I was little, I used to tell everyone that I wanted to be a cash register so I could push buttons all day. (I did not know the word cashier existed.) I did end up being a customer service rep for Office Max for a couple years in high school so I guess I sorta fulfilled my dream job - though the buttons on their machines were terrible! No fun to play with at all.
I wanted to be an architect (as George Costanza did…) but it took me a while to realize that there was math involved and I changed my mind pretty quick
@moonhat I just came here to say I wanted to be an architect too. Had a drafting table and everything as a kid. My math skills also killed it for me!
@mfladd @moonhat As a teen I went down to the union hall to take the test to be a carpenter. Math! All that board feet and shit…I crashed. Probably nowadays there’s an app for that, but back then it was pencil and paper.
Astronaut and/or fighter pilot. Closest I came was working for a company that built flight simulators. (But working for Evans & Sutherland was a secondary dream job, once I went into computers & electronics.)
I once scared myself to death when I thought I’d crashed a multi-million dollar image generator system by trying to loop an airliner. Turns out a power substation failed just as I got to the top of the loop and had the plane fully inverted.
I used to want to be a news cameraman, or documentary filmmaker, or a dolphin.
@ruouttaurmind Ok, I was in Va Beach the other week with the kids. We were out early in the morning watching dolphins while we were swimming. I absolutely thought to myself that I soooo would like to be a dolphin.
See folks? @mfladd gets it.
@mfladd @ruouttaurmind Hey I lived in Norfolk for 4 years. Va Beach was kinda fun.
@mfladd @ruouttaurmind @Targaryen that’s funny, i wanted to be a cameraman briefly in high school when i lived in virginia beach, and i visited the wavy tv 10 station because of that.
@katylava In grade school I commandeered my mother’s ancient VHS camcorder and lugged that thing everywhere. I spent every penny on VHS tapes and wound up with over a hundred of them ($5 to $7 each back then). Spent hours and hours doing camcorder-to-VCR editing and using poster board and a marker for titles and credits.
Now I use Adobe Premier and can accomplish in minutes what used to take hours to do. Plus enhancements, color corrections and digital effects and titles. SMH when I think about all the lost hours, not to mention the money spent on tapes.
I think a politician or an astronaut… I’ve been told for years I should have been a lawyer.
@jst1ofknd Not too late on either the lawyer or the politician. You can probably apply for a local position now in some cases.
@Targaryen
That would require a lower level of indifference than what I currently possess…
I wanted to be a Vet. Should have done it, oh well
@tinamarie1974 Why not now?
@Targaryen I would love to but there are so many reasons. I am too old for it to financially make sense. I have financial commitments that must be met and it would be impossible if I was back in school. Oh and I am still paying off my business degrees lol
so I guess life is in the way now
I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.
I know at one point I did want to be an astronaut. I remember learning that they had to have 20/20 vision, and telling my parents during a drive to my grandmother’s house that I knew I couldn’t be an astronaut because I couldn’t see the leaves on the trees. My parents didn’t believe me then, but I got glasses a few months later. I never did go to space…
@djslack Barring any future civilian flights you can go up to the very outer edge of Earth on some private fighter jet flights. It’s not cheap though. I looked years ago a flight in a Mig out of Russia was like 10k. I guess they’ve got more options now. https://www.flyfighterjet.com/edge-of-space-flight
Forestry Game Warden… and not really but almost. As we lived in a forest for 23 yrs and people were always dumping their unwanteds on us. Just never got to bust them for it.
Magician. When my fav uncle visited he did a bit of great close up magic so I started with books from my elementary school and then onto small magic kits.
Practicing very hard and saving up my grass cutting money I over came stuttering and stage freight and by Jr. High had a pretty great semi-pro stage show which I kept up with into my sophomore year of uni.
I had a mix of stage, mentalism and a little dove magic all mixed in. Great fun!
I was sure I was going to be the first female professional baseball player. That never happened
@pitamuffin Whatever happened to that show Pitch?
I personally am terribly afraid of blood, in any situation in which I need help. I always call the nurse. Once, when they took blood from my hand, I fainted because I saw so much blood.
When I was small, I had a list…and added to it regularly. I was so disappointed when I got old enough and realized I wouldn’t live long enough to be all of those things.
But when I was in the 8th grade or so, I saw my first stage play, and then my second…‘South Pacific’. I was mesmerized at the way the audience reacted when the lighting changed. I could barely keep up with the play because I was watching the lighting so much. So I decided I wanted to go into theatrical stage lighting.
I had family problems, and went to school to become a respiratory therapist to get away from home and to work my way through college to follow that goal. Illness and the resulting bills kept me working as an RT (plus, I loved it!), so it never became a reality.
I DID eventually go back and get my degree in music and got to work a lot with the stage during that, even doing some lighting, but it wasn’t the same as having a career. I enjoyed it, though, and was thankful for the experiences. I still dream about where that might have taken me…New York? Chicago? Hollywood? Who knows…
I had a very fulfilling career as an RT, and I owned 3 successful businesses, as well, before retiring.
I can’t complain…but I do still dream.
Growing up the only thing I really seriously wanted to be was an astronaut. I loved all things space related, went to Space Camp a couple of times and loved every minute of it. I thought it would be the coolest thing to get to float around all weightless AND do science experiments all day. That sounded like my idea of a dream job.
Then I found out that to even have a shot at the astronaut corps you really had to either be a military pilot or have a hard science PhD. And even that wasn’t a sure thing. As I got older and investigated more about the careers that were similar but weren’t being an astronaut I realized I didn’t want to do any of those things. Where I grew up (home town of Henry Ford) if you were even halfway decent at math and science your default career goal was to become an engineer. But I still wanted to do something with space exploration and travel so I went aerospace engineering.
I figured I could design the structures of space ships and that would be almost as awesome as being an astronaut. Structures I understood (I loved Lego almost as much as I loved space…still do). Then I got into my structures classes at school and, oh my goodness no! What??? Why?!? AAAHHH!!! Fortunately I was also taking the basic aerodynamics courses and that stuff just made sense. And then I got deeper into controls and that was a fun challenge. So now I do stability and controls work to help design cool high performance aircraft. I’ve been back to Space Camp a couple of times as an adult. Most of my house is decorated with Lego sets and I help teach and inspire the next generation of little geeklings by coaching a FIRST Lego League (stem/robotics) team.
I think 10 year old me might be a little disappointed I haven’t made it to space yet. But would get distracted by all of the Lego sets and would forgive today-years-old me.
EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!
When I was really young I wanted to be a dancer. I did teach dance through the community Ed program for about 5 years so I kinda did that. Then when I got to be in middle school I really wanted to work for the FBI, that was pretty much my dream for a long time. I did graduate with my BA in criminal justice and had all intentions on becoming a parole officer but I got seriously injured at work. Right now I take care of my father who needs help.
Wanted to be a teacher (like my mom). Instead I’m a tax auditor. It worked out for the best! I don’t like people (especially kids) and not liking people works well for my job.
Now I want to be a retiree and travel.
It seems that every person at least once in his life remembered who he wanted to become as a child, and I am no exception. I first wanted to become a musician. I wanted to travel to different cities and delight people with music, seeing how they become happy thanks to me. I also wanted to become a clown (I don’t remember who I wanted to become before — a musician or a clown). It just seemed fun to me: people are laughing, I feel good, and I’m all so decorated and funny. I also wanted to become a pharmacist. I even specifically learned what this profession is called. But I didn’t just want to mess around with all sorts of medicines there, I wanted to invent a medicine to achieve immortality (I promised this to my great-grandmother, but she didn’t wait). But in my teens, closer to graduation, I clearly decided that I wanted to be a phlebotomist. I started looking for courses or schools to teach this profession and came across school where I was able to get the necessary knowledge for work. In fact, I can advise you to dream and do only what you love!