What did you want to be as a kid?

[videogames101]

Still in HS, want to go for EE. We'll see if it happens.

 

[Howard]

Engineer, almost an engineer.

 

[waggy]

well had 2 jobs i really wanted. either a architect or Truck driver.


ended up as a business owner.

 

[mugs]

I wanted to be this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgDzWQoQb78

I ended up pretty close.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

I wanted to be a chemist, a cook, or a cop.

I ended up getting degree in chemistry, hating the labwork, and becoming a patent lawyer.

The end result? I make a lot of money, work my ass off, and take cooking classes part time when I can.

My goal now is to retire from practicing law at 45 and become a high school science teacher. Only 14 more years (sigh)

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Wanted to be a doctor, more likely going to become a a lawyer or translator.

Go ionto translation. You make a gopod living and have a good work life balance. Lawyers make more money, but have no work life balance. I know, I'm a lawyer.

 

[DefDC]

No idea as a kid. I dug video games and computers... But I also dug being outside and interested in animals.

Went to college and switched majors from Natural Resources (was going to be an Everglades Ranger), then switch to Business (Entrepreneurship or MIS). then switched successfully to Graphic Arts.

Ended up getting a gig as a Network Engineer at a bank. Might switch to being an IT trainer.

I know.. I'm all over the place!

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

dreamed of being a brain surgeon
Currently run a septic cleaning service

 

[ElFenix]

aerospace engineer

lawyer

looking around the first aerospace class and realizing there were no women and they were going to teach us fortran shot down that idea. though i know way too much math for my own good. my boss says every list of numbers is a 'statistical compilation.' no, luddite, it's just a price list.

 

[ksheets]

a mid level IT specialist with $50k in student loans living paycheck to paycheck..
Just a lesson kids

dreams really CAN come true!

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: funkymatt

Originally posted by: clamum
Wanted to be: Guy who rides on the back of the garbage trunk.

Am: Software developer.

Technical waste disposal engineers make more then you shoulda stuck to the original plan

Yeah but that wasn't my plan... it looked like fun hanging on the to the back of the truck and riding around. :laugh:

 

[j511180]

I wanted to be a football player

I'm not a football player

 

[RandomFool]

I wanted to be Indiana Jones or some sort of adventuring scientist.

Now I'm a programmer. Heck, I didn't want to be a programmer 2 years ago...

 

[n7]

Wanted to be an archeologist or race car driver.

I presently repair computers & don't own a vehicle. :\

 

[Calvert]

Wanted to be an electrical engineer, became a computer systems engineer. Pretty similar, CSE wasn't around when I was a kid, but taught exactly what I was interested in; electrical circuits, microchips, and programming. I was fascinated by Transformers (the toys), in fact, all robots when I was a youngster, and wound up building a robot for my honours project in my final year.

 

[Baked]

Kid: Huh?
Now: What?

 

[Leros]

Wanted to be an engineer of some kind. I'm currently studying electrical engineering.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: mugs
I wanted to be this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgDzWQoQb78

I ended up pretty close.

HAHA LOL got to love the two negative comments on the first page:


dext0rb:

20 years old and mentions Windows 95? Hmm, excellent math there.

zntx:

i woulrd aprreciate if someone send me the lyrics please!! i dont understand some parts

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: alkemyst
fluffer, but once the word got out I became the main show.

You wanted to suck dicks for a living?

 

[Jeff7]

Astronomer, before I had any idea what the job would entail.
It was more than just taking pictures of stuff in space, so it lost a lot of the allure as far as a job goes. I can do that on the Internet now.
And I hate doing any kind of calculus. There are some things that numbers should just not be forced to do, and that's one of them.

I'm now going for a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology.
It's similar to a ME program, but without the calculus integration into the curriculum (though I did take ME-level calc I and II), and more hands-on lab experience.
I started in the ME program, but all the theory was getting rather dull. I'm in college for job training, and I needed to feel like I was doing something relevant and "real-world." The lead engineer at a company I interviewed with last week (internship) said he rather prefers MET's, as they've seen how some of the equipment works, and they also get more experience with 3D/solid-modeling software.


I see the hierarchy as this:
Scientists -> Engineers -> Engineering Technologists -> Technicians.

Scientists get the theory of how the basic principles work. Engineers, and to a degree the Engineering Technologists, figure out how to turn seemingly disconnected theories into a thing that can do something useful. Technicians build and service the devices.

 

[ChaoZ]

I wanted to produce videogames. Now I'm studying to be an auditor.

 

[Mrvile]

I wanted to make video games too. But I'm majoring in furniture design.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: Mrvile
I wanted to make video games too. But I'm majoring in furniture design.

Hmm now there is a field that never crossed my mind as even existing, though of course it has to. How did you get into furniture design? I could see that as being quite interesting actually.

 

[LongCoolMother]

airline pilot, video game maker, astronaut.

now studying computer science. will probably go into software engineering.

 

[Mrvile]

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: Mrvile
I wanted to make video games too. But I'm majoring in furniture design.

Hmm now there is a field that never crossed my mind as even existing, though of course it has to. How did you get into furniture design? I could see that as being quite interesting actually.

Well I go to RISD, where there are a lot of very specific art fields, like "ceramics," and "jewelry," and "interior architecture." I was originally studying to go in illustration, but at the end of the freshman year (where everyone takes basic art classes) I fell in love with my 3D design class and ended up transferring to furniture design. Yeah.