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Title: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: HillGoose on January 29, 2018, 01:47:46 PM I was thinking about how until I was 18, my life dream was to become a reclusive shut-in and live in the woods and never talk to nobody.
Now I just want to manage a hedge fund... boring... Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: Lechasseur on January 29, 2018, 02:07:36 PM As a kid I wanted to be a historian, as a teenager I wanted to be a politician and now I'm almost done with my bachelor's degree with the aim of going into international business.
Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: mvd10 on January 29, 2018, 02:25:37 PM I was thinking about how until I was 18, my life dream was to become a reclusive shut-in and live in the woods and never talk to nobody. Now I just want to manage a hedge fund... boring... If you want to manage a hedge fund in 2040 you might as well start transitioning yourself into a computer. Poor hedge fund managers will be the first victims of automation and by the 2030s studying finance will be the equivalent of studying cultural antropology or so today (no offense). As an economics student who aspired to work in the financial sector I've become resigned to the fact that by 2040 I'll be either unemployed or an economics teacher in some place nobody has ever heard of in the Dutch Bible Belt or (pls no) Groningen (I hate children, especially when they're in puberty). Meanwhile my econometrics/financial engineering/theoretical physics friends will all be millionaires :'(. As a kid I wanted to be a historian, as a teenager I wanted to be a politician and now I'm almost done with my bachelor's degree with the aim of going into international business. Dude, that's literally me. When I was 6 I wanted to become an archaeologist, when I was 12 I wanted to become a historian, when I was 16 I wanted to become a politician and now I'm torn between economic consulting or doing something more management/strategy-related. Or maybe even investment banking (still have 2 more years to decide :P). Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: HillGoose on January 29, 2018, 02:41:01 PM I was thinking about how until I was 18, my life dream was to become a reclusive shut-in and live in the woods and never talk to nobody. Now I just want to manage a hedge fund... boring... If you want to manage a hedge fund in 2040 you might as well start transitioning yourself into a computer. Poor hedge fund managers will be the first victims of automation and by the 2030s studying finance will be the equivalent of studying cultural antropology or so today (no offense). As an economics student who aspired to work in the financial sector I've become resigned to the fact that by 2040 I'll be either unemployed or an economics teacher in some place nobody has ever heard of in the Dutch Bible Belt or (pls no) Groningen (I hate children, especially when they're in puberty). Meanwhile my econometrics/financial engineering/theoretical physics friends will all be millionaires :'(. As a kid I wanted to be a historian, as a teenager I wanted to be a politician and now I'm almost done with my bachelor's degree with the aim of going into international business. Dude, that's literally me. When I was 6 I wanted to become an archaeologist, when I was 12 I wanted to become a historian, when I was 16 I wanted to become a politician and now I'm torn between economic consulting or doing something more management/strategy-related. Or maybe even investment banking (still have 2 more years to decide :P). thats not true #robotsdonthavehumanjudgement Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: dead0man on January 29, 2018, 02:50:23 PM Commercial pilot via the USAF, I got as far as 40ish hours flying a tiny plane before I realized it wasn't for me.
Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: Mr. Smith on January 29, 2018, 04:40:27 PM I wanted to be a Lawyer for a time, then I wanted to be an economist, then I wanted to be a potter, and then as my writing skills got better, now I'm on the road to becoming a teacher.
Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: junior chįmp on January 29, 2018, 05:30:51 PM Cartoonist
Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: Torie on January 29, 2018, 05:53:31 PM I wanted to be a lawyer around age 5, and stayed the course. I did get interested along the way in finance and economics, and did a brief detour to pick up an MBA.
Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: America's Sweetheart ❤/𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖞 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗 on January 29, 2018, 06:08:52 PM Not surprisingly, I wanted to be a porn star.
Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: junior chįmp on January 29, 2018, 06:17:58 PM Not surprisingly, I wanted to be a porn star. Did you make it? Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: HillGoose on January 29, 2018, 11:02:06 PM My life dream would be to be on "My 600-lb life" and lose weight then be on "Hoarders" but then go to rehab and then get out of rehab then be on "Extreme Couponers" and win "The Biggest Loser" then get addicted to meth and be on "Intervention" then go through rehab again then gain weight and go back on "My 600-lb life" and start the cycle all over again
Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: America's Sweetheart ❤/𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖞 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗 on January 29, 2018, 11:11:25 PM Not surprisingly, I wanted to be a porn star. Did you make it? Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: junior chįmp on January 29, 2018, 11:13:22 PM Not surprisingly, I wanted to be a porn star. Did you make it? Never give up Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: America's Sweetheart ❤/𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖞 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗 on January 29, 2018, 11:22:47 PM Not surprisingly, I wanted to be a porn star. Did you make it? Never give up Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: Lechasseur on January 30, 2018, 04:33:32 AM I was thinking about how until I was 18, my life dream was to become a reclusive shut-in and live in the woods and never talk to nobody. Now I just want to manage a hedge fund... boring... If you want to manage a hedge fund in 2040 you might as well start transitioning yourself into a computer. Poor hedge fund managers will be the first victims of automation and by the 2030s studying finance will be the equivalent of studying cultural antropology or so today (no offense). As an economics student who aspired to work in the financial sector I've become resigned to the fact that by 2040 I'll be either unemployed or an economics teacher in some place nobody has ever heard of in the Dutch Bible Belt or (pls no) Groningen (I hate children, especially when they're in puberty). Meanwhile my econometrics/financial engineering/theoretical physics friends will all be millionaires :'(. As a kid I wanted to be a historian, as a teenager I wanted to be a politician and now I'm almost done with my bachelor's degree with the aim of going into international business. Dude, that's literally me. When I was 6 I wanted to become an archaeologist, when I was 12 I wanted to become a historian, when I was 16 I wanted to become a politician and now I'm torn between economic consulting or doing something more management/strategy-related. Or maybe even investment banking (still have 2 more years to decide :P). For your reply to HillGoose, yeah unfortunately I think most people who aren't involved in the hard sciences or technology will be hit by automation sooner or later but there isn't much you can do about that, not everyone can become a scientist. Oh and then for your comment about having to become a teacher, that's kind of the whole point of why I went into economics, in order to avoid having to teach :'( hopefully I'll get into the international business program of one of the schools in my area, then I can do something that would allow me to accomplish my life goals (to a large degree I picked that because I speak a couple of languages and it would allow me the freedom to move around and more or less live where I want, while being able to put food on the table. Hopefully I can do that and hopefully those types of jobs won't be automated as well. Oh then for the geography part, Groningen is in the North (maybe Frisia (Friesland), or is that Heerenveen?) right? And where's the Dutch Bible Belt? The South of the Netherlands? Outside of the South I've only been once, to Amsterdam but I've been to Maastricht several times (last time about 3 months ago) and I actually quite like the city, is that the area you're trying to avoid? Then for your reply to my comment, I guess we have quite a bit in common then haha. My original project was to go study law for a year to prepare the ''concours'' (an entrance exam but where you passing or failing depends on your overall ranking rather than your grade, I think there were about 1400 spots for 12000 candidates) for the IEP (Political Studies Institute) but I missed out by a few hundred spots so I went for my plan B, economics. Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: muon2 on January 30, 2018, 10:54:23 AM As a child I wanted to be a scientist. By the time I was a teenager I had a telescope, microscope, rock collection, a chemistry lab in the basement, and access to a computer at school (when few people thought of them as anything but military machines and science fiction). Not surprisingly, I became a scientist and professor.
Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: Grassroots on January 30, 2018, 11:09:43 AM Politician, businessman, police officer, or serving in military. Currently, I am taking business in college, and i'm in the ROTC, planning on jumpstarting my political career once out of the military.
Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: RINO Tom on January 30, 2018, 11:36:18 AM Professional baseball player
Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: HillGoose on January 31, 2018, 02:03:04 PM dawgs I just realized if authomation actually "takes my job" I can actually just go be a hermit in the woods!!!! kick ass!!!
Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: Del Tachi on January 31, 2018, 05:30:57 PM I wanted to be a lawyer for a while, then a lobbyist; now I'd like to work in economic development or urban planning.
Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: HillGoose on February 01, 2018, 12:48:03 AM I wanted to be an architect. Once I discovered I have no talent for the graphic arts, my ambitions faded away. I'm uncertain of what my life's path is now, but I hope it will lead me to happiness. go on "Hoarders" or "My 600-lb life" or be a hermit in the woods. thats what i would do if i didnt have a direction Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: Oldiesfreak1854 on February 01, 2018, 07:42:25 PM For most of my childhood, I never settled on one thing I though I wanted to be. For a while, I flirted with a single possible career, then moved on. When I was in middle school, I wanted to be a doctor; during my freshman year of high school, I thought I wanted to become an animator. It wasn't until toward the end of my sophomore year that I decided what I wanted to do with my life: a political scientist and consultant.
Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: bagelman on February 17, 2018, 05:53:31 PM As a kid I wanted to be a scientist. In second grade my lego construction was a science lab with automated machines.
Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: MarkD on February 17, 2018, 07:05:14 PM As a teenager I wanted to become a teacher. I did become one but it was very temporary; I could not handle the task of classroom discipline so I quit.
Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: Rookie Yinzer on February 18, 2018, 01:44:24 PM I swore I was going to be an obstetrician. LOL.
Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: mvd10 on February 18, 2018, 02:53:42 PM Archaeologist -> Historian -> Politician -> Economist -> Management Consultant -> Investment Banker -> Rich
The evolution of my dreams Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: FEMA Camp Administrator on February 18, 2018, 03:03:56 PM Archaeologist -> Historian -> Politician -> Economist -> Management Consultant -> Investment Banker -> Rich The evolution of my dreams The death of the arts to the forces of rationalization and greed, encapsulated in a single man. :( Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: Dr Oz Lost Party! on February 21, 2018, 07:30:55 PM I drained bath water at a hospice.
Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: America Needs R'hllor on March 17, 2018, 02:29:00 PM Archaeologist -> Historian -> Politician -> Economist -> The evolution of my dreams Other than the striked out parts, you resemble me creepily lol. I went through the exact same 3 first ones in the exact same order, and now... Well, now I'm studying Economics and am going to do that in the army for 6 years after finishing my degree :P Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: YE on March 17, 2018, 02:30:09 PM Meteorology, and that's what I'm in school for.
Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: The world will shine with light in our nightmare on March 18, 2018, 09:03:54 PM I wanted to be a minister, but then I realized how truly depraved this world is.
Title: Re: What did you want to do for a career as a child/teen? Post by: Kingpoleon on April 04, 2018, 09:13:25 AM Newspaper editor/Diplomat/Economist/Politician.
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