I'm curious what other people use to think they wanted to do.
I wanted to be a clown, for example, which knowing just even an ounce of knowledge about the clown industry, I'm very glad I never kept that dream. It's both highly competitive, some-what expensive (if you go to clown school + props) but also a dying industry. Really a double whammy in that area.
I think the only reason I wanted to be a clown was to make people laugh, I was never really into the aesthetic of it. I mean the big shoes are pretty dope but all that other shit seems like a bit much with the makeup and stupid dotted suspenders.
i have no idea why im asking this, honestly. i just randomly thought about how insane it would have been if i was actually a serious clown, seems fucking bizarre as hell to think about now
Paleontologist. Dinosaurs are the shit. Digging is the shit. But it requires long, expensive schooling, highly competitive, and pretty bad pay while you're paying back your loans
So I've been doing entry level work since forever
I've read a few things about that job and it's definitely one of those that you're just not doing anything exciting for 99% of the time but when you actually do get to go out and dig and find some good shit, you're living the real dream.
I've read since firsthand accounts and yeah, that's what it sounds like. But if course those people are PhDs and tend to also teach. I think the monotony of digging might be kinda nice tho
Nascar driver
Astronaut
Politician (🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢)
all in that order
Space scientist. Not a scientist who studies space btw, just someone who does general science shit in space. I think i was going to built robots, do some mechanical engineering shit, whatever, the important part was just that it wasn't happening on this planet.
Found a school journal from 2nd grade. Wrote down I wanted to drive trains but I had to be a firefighter.
spoiler
Am neither :sadness:
Thank you for this :party-blob: my only regret is that I can only upbear this comment once :heart-sickle:
Besides palentology, which was mentioned, I also wanted to be an architect. I was always fascinated watching skyscrapers being built and I wanted to design a few.
hey i know a guy (George) who pretends to be an architect and it gets him dates all the time. It's perfectly acceptable to stolen valor architects, if you think about it, they are all copying each other in one way or another besides those freaks who only design things so they can act like they are not like other architects
When I grew up I realized being a city planner was the way to go. Who wants to design just a single building when you could reshape an entire city?
Video game programmer. I currently work in a decent job in a bank and I've seen what the industry does to people....but I still wish I'd become a video game programmer.
Zoo keeper. Elephants are dope. I wanted to hang out with them. Also, seems pretty simple. Like, you just show up, do a routine, and go home. No big challenge, no creativity, no customer service. You know what you have to do and get it done.
no customer service
Sure, until the lemurs call at 3 AM to complain that you're out of bananas. 🙄
My local zoos are so highly competitive that people just shovel penguin poop for 5 hours a day most of the week with absolutely no chance they'll be getting a job. It's truly one of those jobs that requires a undying passion for. I tried applying for those gigs for awhile, it was a tough one to even get a call back from, but I get the appeal of it all.
Yeah. It was an idealist vision, but it was nice to believe there were jobs out there where you could do what you love.
I shit you not, I just got an email I just noticed about 10 mins ago about the zoo job I applied for maybe 6 years ago on one of those job aggregates. lol, I'd still be down to do that job tbh, but it's such a far cry away now. I don't really have the time to be able to volunteer as much as most of them require. I did when I was younger though!
I honestly don't think I thought much about it. I probably just assumed I'd end up like my parents working some office job. I was more interested in doing kid stuff than thinking about my future profession.
I wanted to be a children's author at first but....
In the most embarrassing realization of my American imperialist heritage I opened my 10-year time capsule from elementary school a while ago, and the note to myself basically said that I wanted to "be rich" so I "didn't have to do anything or have to work" man that shit was so embarrassing because I had literally no ambitions instilled in me by society other than escaping middle class servitude... I don't really even know what to say about it now other than I wish I was smart enough back then to understand what it really meant...........
I literally never had one. I guess my dream was to game until I wet myself.
I finally got a dream in my mid twenties (six years ago) that I'm currently back in school pursuing, which is to work at NASA. I could literally talk at you about space shit for hours without stopping, it's the only thing I've ever gotten this excited thinking about doing.
