My favorite ice breaker. What do/did you want to be as an adult?
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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 just wanted to be happy, only I didn’t understand what “happiness” felt like. It sounded like a utopia to me.
Am in my late 30’s and I don’t know nor did I ever know. As a result I consider that a crummy ice-breaker.
scratch that. I once wanted to be an electrical engineer but I didn’t know that’s what it was called so I said I wanted to be “an electrician” which I have zero interest in. -You would not believe the number of times people have recommended “electrician” to me as a career choice. Also, I don’t have the aptitude to complete the advanced math and advanced science courses that are required to get an EE degree. That’s not for lack of repeated tries, either. Some things just aren’t meant to be.
As a kid, I hated that question, I didn’t dream of working as a kid, early misfortune in life taught me some interesting lessons.
I think I grew up with a vague idea of wanting to be free of money, as I associated with misery growing up and as a result, never had an answer to the question outside of “I just want to help people”.
World could use more people who want to help other people so I hope you get to do that
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.
i wanted to be a pilot. I became a software engineer. big mistake
An astronaut, until I discovered I hated rollercoasters.
And then an aerospace engineer, until I failed pre-calculus twice.
And then I had a random computer programming course in high school, and ECPI visited our high school. So I settled on computer programming.
I’ve been in the field of computer programming for about 20 years now. I like coding and it pays good too.
An engineer.
I became an electrical engineer 🫣
I never had that kind of goal focus as a kid.
I’m now in my late 30s, am unemployed with an engineering degree and still have no clue what to do as a job…
How do you get food?
I go to the supermarket and buy stuff.
I’m not saying, I’ve never had a job, so I’ve got some savings on the side. I also live in a country with a somewhat functioning social security system. Although it took all of my energy to navigate it at times, that secured a bit of income for some time.
Lately, I depend on my spouse though.
Great to hear you have overcome the negativity; just sorry you didn’t have the support each child deserves.
Me
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.
Astronaut because I didn’t realize there were astronomers and I was very hyperfocused on space. I also wanted to be an animator and an artist. I currently am unemployed so my younger self would be very disappointed in my lack of employment. I was shooting too high but never practiced my aim.
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.
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.
