Childhood AmbitionsHoratioFellatio writes:
"At the tender age of 13, my little hairless clockweights squirted their first dose of testosterone into my blood stream. The result was a mental alarm clock shouting, 'I NEED TO LOOK AT GIRL'S FANNIES.' I reasoned that if I became a Gynaecologist, I'd get to look at fannies all day.
"It was only when I reached the age of about 16 and learnt about STD's and yeast infections that I realised I'd only ever get to see diseased ones."
Tell us about your childhood career ambitions and the moment at which your aspirations crumbled into a pile of broken dreams.
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chthonic, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 12:02)
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Never choose careers that early.When I was a wee one I was going to be an Airline Pilot (probably for BA) ever since taking my first jet plane flight. So far so good, but in primary school and secondary school they are far too busy squeezing the life and individuality out of you to direct you towards any sort of career path..
Anyway.
We emigrated to the US at the end of my first year of secondary school and we got to take more career aptitude tests on some old teletype thing. Well I still wanted to be an airline pilot with a backup career of "computer systems analyst" which sounded pretty high tech (and well paid).
Eventually graduated and went to university and got a degree in computer science and thus began my career. Started doing systems programming on mainframe computers and managed to make a deft job switch into networking and have been doing that ever since. The pay is good which paid for me to take flying lessons so now I'm a pilot as well (but that's for fun not for $$) so I guess I sort of got what I wanted, just not quite in the form I thought I would.
Apologies for length, it's the cold you know.
(, Fri 30 Mar 2007, 13:00, Reply)
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