Career Choices: Then vs Now

Batch · October 21, 2015, 01:38:05 AM

I feel so violated

Jono · October 21, 2015, 01:40:26 AM

Then? I don't know

Now? I don't know

October 21, 2015, 01:44:28 AM

when I was a kid I wanted to be an inventor
now I'm a software dev

FatherlyNick - fuck putin · October 21, 2015, 04:17:17 AM

A question for the unemployed.
How do you pay for food/bills/rent?

Ender · October 21, 2015, 05:52:30 AM

I dunno.man

velox · October 21, 2015, 06:01:23 AM

I wanted to become a comic book artist.

Now I study video game design.

I would say that's an upgrade, but since a job isn't guaranteed I'll keep my mouth shut.

DAS B00T x2 · October 21, 2015, 06:05:33 AM

For the longest time I just wanted to be a rail riding hobo.
Then I played too many arcade flying games and wanted to be a pilot.
Then I watched too many John Wayne films and wanted to be a soldier
Then I figured I'd enjoy being in residential construction/carpentry...
Then a mechanic...
Now I'm pretty sure that I want to stay in the aviation field.

Isara · October 21, 2015, 07:03:50 AM

A game developer, and I am still in college. I'll be a game developer soon enough. I just don't expect to get any cash while I stay in this country.

BaconShelf · October 21, 2015, 07:11:11 AM

I wanted to be a lego designer when I was a kid

Not that I wouldn't accept that in a heartbeat now, but I'm more looking at computer games/ graphics. Skyboxes and textures, that sort of thing

velox · October 21, 2015, 07:12:18 AM

Quote from: Isara on October 21, 2015, 07:03:50 AM

A game developer, and I am still in college. I'll be a game developer soon enough. I just don't expect to get any cash while I stay in this country.

Azure · October 21, 2015, 07:13:13 AM

Wanted to be a Teacher.

Now, personal trainer, so I guess kind of the same.

Dietrich Six · October 21, 2015, 07:15:54 AM

I don't know what I want to be honest, didn't know as a kid either.

Super Irish · October 21, 2015, 07:26:16 AM

Didn't really think about jobs. Thought being a farmer wouldn't be too bad, and space was always interesting to me.

Now I'm in a Geology degree, and analysing sedimentary features of Mars or rocks from elsewhere is a perfectly viable choice for me (Not that I've put too much thought into it, tbf).

ExodusMae · October 21, 2015, 08:58:40 AM

Quote from: FatherlyNick on October 21, 2015, 04:17:17 AM

A question for the unemployed.
How do you pay for food/bills/rent?

Centrelink m8.

The Lord Ruler · October 21, 2015, 08:59:09 AM

Quote from: Jocephalopod on October 20, 2015, 10:43:25 PM

Quote from: The Lord Ruler on October 20, 2015, 10:42:00 PM
Never knew what i wanted to do when i was a kid.

Now i want to work in federal law enforcement.

so you can visit your dad in jail?

what

Mr. Psychologist · October 21, 2015, 09:11:42 AM

Hmm, well early years I guess I wanted to be a nigel strawberry type. Then a zookeeper of some kind. Then that sort of dried up reasonably early, I like animals but it's just not really the career for me.
But if I ever burn out on meatbag psychology though, I'll probably bugger off to go and work with apes instead <_<

Then by the time I was in high school I was set on going into Medicine, got all the work placements and the grades etc but I ended up a little bit unwell during sixth form which basically put paid to that because of how insanely high the requirements are to get in.

During sixth form I was doing Psychology along with Bio/Chem/Physics etc and I actually really enjoyed it. By the time I had to leave because of my health I was reasonably sure that even if it wasn't my original plan I'd still find working with meatbag minds more interesting than working with their bodies.

So Biologist -> Zoologist -> Doctor -> Psychologist, that's the way it's gone.

Oh · October 21, 2015, 09:13:16 AM

I wanted to drive trains when I was 6.
Now I want to go into some sort of computational engineering. Possibly computation fluid dynamics.