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I always hated escorting missions in video games. The NPC kept hitting walls and dying.
Mad scientist inventor.
Low overhead, low accountability, results-based work with ambiguous morals and financial opportunity.
Same! Obviously with lots of Tesla coils.
I’ve wanted to be a train driver. No idea why, I wasn’t even into trains that much. Probably just liked the idea of operating something large and heavy.
Instead, I’ve become a programmer - as one does on lemmy -, and don’t even have a drivers license. I’m literally unqualified for operating anything past a bike.
Follow your dreams and play “Densha De Go”.
I wanted to be a shapeshifter that could turn into an eagle so I could fly to school instead of riding the bus.
My dream was ruined when I realized that an eagle—as badass and majestic as they are—can’t carry a backpack full of books ☹️
Lol I wanted a mechanic robot horse to ride to school, less maintence then a real horse in my eyes, I did not want a living creature lol
Wanted to be a mechanical engineer because my father is one and my grandfather is one. I had a dream to invent flying cars that would use magnets to push themselves off the ground using the electromagnetic field of the earth or something cute like that.
Realised during my final years at school that I suck at physics, maths, chemistry and that I’m not interested in pursuing this field in the slightest. Partly because I wanted to walk my own path too, probably.
I went to university for a bachelor’s degree in English instead and now I’m a a speech and language pathologist in training. Couldn’t be further away from my original goal :D
Lmao same I drew the blueprints too, plus the manets would slow cars down and prevent them from hitting each other, we already saved cars as kids smh
Scientist, and then I discovered the fun of modding Nintendo consoles so now I’m in Computer Science
I always wanted to be a programmer and live in the mountains. Got pretty close as a Systems Engineer in Denver a few years ago.
I wanted to be a nurse. Still think I’d have been good at that.
Either a veterinarian or an architect. Ended up in tech, but should have architect in my title with my next promotion.
Marine Biologist.
The sea was angry that day, my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.
It shifted a lot.
very early on, a firefighter. Not an unrealistic goal, I had relatives that were volunteers at it, and a few pros. But I got entranced by other things fairly quickly.
The first serious desire was veterinary medicine. I’d seen animals hurting and couldn’t help them, so I had a very strong urge to learn how.
But at some point, that urge transitioned into human health care. Doctor, nurse, I was on the fence about it over the years.
At one point, the Navy wanted me, and I was seriously considering it. But what I wanted the most, I couldn’t have, and I didn’t want what they wanted me for, so that was that.
After that, I considered going for an English degree with the idea of teaching. Then I discovered how shitty it is to be a teacher, and how useless an English degree is outside of that, and it was dismissed.
By the time senior year of high school rolled around, I knew damn good and well that med school was not going to happen. Too poor, had difficulty in school (not with learning, but with stuff that indirectly interfered with it), and frankly had zero desire to spend that much time chasing something that would be an uphill battle the entire way. Too damn manu barriers to make it worth the outcome. I could achieve my actual goal of helping people without the bullshit.
So, nursing it was. Didn’t work out, life got in the way of the actual nursing degree, but I did end up a nurse’s assistant that was just grossly over qualified for the job.
A comic book artist. I so desperately wanted to make indie black and white comics for a living so much so I had scanned and built a geocities site for one of my comics purely to send to Dan Harmon (of Community fame)in like 1997 (He was writing La Cosa Nostroid at the time) he actually emailed me back and said he loved it.
and then…nothing. haven’t drawn anything in years. just, kinda gave up on it.
I wanted to be an inventor. I didn’t particularly like inventing new things, but I loved making mechanical stuff (still do). I think when I was like 10 I learned what an engineer was and immediately decided I wanted to be a mechanical engineer instead.
As a middle kid, I got free choice in my “profession” so I wanted to become a park ranger after a school field trip.
I eventually studied natural sciency stuff, realized research gigs paid poorly and switched to a souless IT job at a lesser evil corp.
I avoid telling people that I work in IT, I fixed enough VCR clocks for a lifetime.
Happy! And I’ve been successful!
