Casual Conversation
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- !casualuk@feddit.uk
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- !forumlibre@jlai.lu
- !batepapo@lemmy.eco.br
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- !actual_discussion@lemmy.ca
- !askmenover30@lemm.ee
- !dads@feddit.uk
- !letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk
- !movies@piefed.social
- !television@piefed.social
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 ☹️
Mad scientist inventor.
Low overhead, low accountability, results-based work with ambiguous morals and financial opportunity.
Entomologist or a priest. These days I'm an atheist but I still think insects are pretty nifty. Except mosquitoes.
A veterinanrian. Worked at vet clinic in high school and hated it. Ended up being a therapist and love it.
Scientist, and then I discovered the fun of modding Nintendo consoles so now I'm in Computer Science
I think my earliest dream was to be a pilot.
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".
Engineer. Got my engineering degree. I'm just good at math and science, literally never studied in my life. Now I'm a homeless unemployed dirtbag that just rock climbs. This is more fulfilling than working tho. I guess now I wish I could be a monk or something, because when they decide to fuck off its some righteous noble maneuver instead of just being a lazy bum. Which is how I want to live my life.
Marine Biologist.
The sea was angry that day, my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.
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.
Entertainer/performer. I started modeling professionally at 14, but it only got “serious” when I turned 16. Later on, I got into escorting, which is my current profession, because it offered much better money and I genuinely enjoy the human interaction (plus the perks like traveling, the freedom to work on your own terms, etc.). I consider myself an entertainer/performer, so in a way, I did become what I wanted to be when I grew up. Hahaha.
I always hated escorting missions in video games. The NPC kept hitting walls and dying.
Writer
How is it going?
He wrote that comment, so I say he succeeded
I wrote.
Tbh as a kid and even know a lot of the fascination behind the job as writer was all the freedom you get. How mundane you can be while creating something that will resonate even 50-100 years after you passed. You can write everywhere, while you enjoy life and travel to your favourite places and just chainsmoke cigs and binge drink alcohol. (This is the idea i had of a writer, damn you Hemingway) Having said that, i would love to write something that makes other feel like i feel when i read some good books. The feeling that reading that book in that precise moment is the best thing i could do with my life.
But to write something that isn't complete and utter shit like a lot of books i see, the first thing you have to be is: very cultured and you have to master the language in which you'll write. In order to get to that point the only thing you can do is educate yourself and read, so as of now i try to read both because i enjoy it and because i feel like i need to get a good vocabulary and idea on how to express a coherent tought that isn't the most cliché thing you've read in your life.
Either a veterinarian or an architect. Ended up in tech, but should have architect in my title with my next promotion.
I wanted to be a nurse. Still think I'd have been good at that.
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.
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