What did you want to be?

[Azure79]

Archaeologist. Then Paleontologist.

 

I used to dig big holes in the back yard, flip over big rocks to see the cool bugs underneath, go mucking around the woods to find cool looking rocks and fossils and beg my parents to go to the Natural History museum.

 

Then I hit age 10 and my skin didn't like me crawling around in the dirt too much. My asthma getting worse didn't help much either.

 

Suffered through atopic skin conditions throughout teenage years but better now. I decided early on (15 or so) that I wanted to become a doctor, or in my case, a pediatrician. It didn't seem fair that I couldn't do things that I dreamed of because of illness and I wanted to help kids become healthier and do whatever they wanted in life.

 

Got a little side-tracked when my family moved back to Korea, but now I'm back in the States working in a accounting firm for the time being. I start some required Pre-med courses early next year. So I'm slowly working towards my goals.

 

Hmm...my life story right there.

[taks]

desired to become: since i was 7, electrical engineer

became: electrical engineer

 

i always had this vision of myself in a white lab coat (not sure why), leading a design team of sorts. trade the lab coat for a dead shirt, that's pretty much what i do.

 

taks

[Darth Drabek]

I wanted to be a professional baseball player. Specifically, I wanted to play left field for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

 

Unfortunately, a combination of genetic factors conspired against me. You don

[karka]

My other passion was astronomy. I'm still thinking to get a master's degree in astronomy. Digital processing of space images is an attractive subject.

[taks]

image processing is actually a branch of EE under the guise of statistical signal processing. in fact, i do image processing of a sort. of course, the "images" that result from radar returns are a little different than an optical image (same conceptually, however). fun stuff.

 

taks

[Gfted1]

My other passion was astronomy. I'm still thinking to get a master's degree in astronomy. Digital processing of space images is an attractive subject.

 

 

You may find this interesting. The mother of all supernova's!

[Enoch]

At different intervals throughout my childhood, I wanted to be a scientist, a detective, a writer, and various other stuff.

 

I am now an attorney, working for the U.S. government. I never remember wanting to be a lawyer, which is OK, I guess, because the work I do is nothing like the common perception of attorneys. (If my career goes as planned, I'll only see the inside of a courtroom if I decide to contest a traffic ticket.) Even in college, I knew lots of people who really wanted to go to law school. 90% of them were jerks, so I assumed that what I wanted could not possibly be the same as what they wanted. After a couple years of seeing what a bachelor's degree (econ & history majors) and very poor job-finding skills got me, though, I gave law school another thought. I got into a pretty good one, and here I am 4 years later, a member of the VA state bar and 8 months into my career as a bureaucrat. I'm reasonably happy with it so far.

[karka]

image processing is actually a branch of EE under the guise of statistical signal processing. in fact, i do image processing of a sort. of course, the "images" that result from radar returns are a little different than an optical image (same conceptually, however). fun stuff.

 

taks

 

Once, I worked on a project about detecting some 2d geometric shapes on images that are taken from an airplane. My project's main purpose was detecting tank-like shapes and estimating their possible locations. Actually, it was very fun.

 

 

My other passion was astronomy. I'm still thinking to get a master's degree in astronomy. Digital processing of space images is an attractive subject.

 

 

You may find this interesting. The mother of all supernova's!

 

Wow, just wow. Yes, these are the kinds of topics that I really interested in. And especially, this is a damn interesting news. Thanks for the link.

[kirottu]

When I grow up I want to a **** enlargement pill.

[Darth Launch]

I've always wanted to be happy, and I'd said I've got a lot to be happy about

 

Yay for me! :D

[Blank]

a dynosor! rawr!

[taks]

Once, I worked on a project about detecting some 2d geometric shapes on images that are taken from an airplane. My project's main purpose was detecting tank-like shapes and estimating their possible locations. Actually, it was very fun.

attribution is a very difficult problem. the goal is to find a correlation between a 2D object in an image, and a known 2D object. i work more in the detection realm, i.e. is the signal even there. both have their curiosities.

 

taks

[astr0creep]

I wanted to be a movie director. Since I saw E.T. for the first time in the eighties.

Almost made it too. I have diplomas and all, just lacking in $$$ and seedy connections.

 

Now I'm nothing.

Job-wise that is.

[Calax]

Never really knew what I wanted to do with myself. Just knew that I had to "succeed" somehow.

[theslug]

At different intervals throughout my childhood, I wanted to be a scientist, a detective, a writer, and various other stuff.

 

I am now an attorney, working for the U.S. government. I never remember wanting to be a lawyer, which is OK, I guess, because the work I do is nothing like the common perception of attorneys. (If my career goes as planned, I'll only see the inside of a courtroom if I decide to contest a traffic ticket.) Even in college, I knew lots of people who really wanted to go to law school. 90% of them were jerks, so I assumed that what I wanted could not possibly be the same as what they wanted. After a couple years of seeing what a bachelor's degree (econ & history majors) and very poor job-finding skills got me, though, I gave law school another thought. I got into a pretty good one, and here I am 4 years later, a member of the VA state bar and 8 months into my career as a bureaucrat. I'm reasonably happy with it so far.

I know it looks better to have gone to a more prestigious school but as long as you graduate from an accredited school of law and pass the bar are your chances of getting a job still good?

[Walsingham]

Unfortunately, a combination of genetic factors conspired against me. You don

[Guest The Architect]

It's not about your commitment and talent, it has a lot to do with luck, too. (Unless you are just interested in writing ANYTHING to make money, then you can become quite successful writing newpaper columns or advertisement scripts, etc.)

 

I

Edited May 8, 2007 by The Architect

[Blarghagh]

I wanted to write comic books. I'm a bike messenger.

 

Not only has my dream failed, i'm doing something that has no relation to my qualifications as well.

 

If you're an artist, write and draw comic books. If you're just a writer, find and artist and write comic books with him(or her). Look at new oppertunities; the world wide web for example. Webcomics are enormously popular AND profitable (through merchandise etc). Seriously, don't give up on becoming a comic book writer.

 

I'm planning on going into webcomics soon myself, but only as a side project. What is more important for me right now is to learn how to work with 3D programs because nearly every job opportunity in the animation sector requires it.

 

(Seriously, though, the animation sector, actually more the design sector for me, is a much better fit for me than being a paleontologist and I thoroughly enjoy it. Especially since I get a lot of freedom. A lot of times I can be my own writer and director.)

Edited May 8, 2007 by TrueNeutral

[Enoch]

I know it looks better to have gone to a more prestigious school but as long as you graduate from an accredited school of law and pass the bar are your chances of getting a job still good?

That's true, although a lot depends on the type of job you're looking for and where you're looking for that job. If you want to be a litigation associate at a top-ten Manhattan firm, you probably need to go to a top school. But there are lots of opportunities out there that aren't quite so selective.

 

Also, if you're picking out a lower-tier law school to go to, I'd recommend limiting your search to the geographic area where you want to work. The Yales & Stanfords have national contacts and reputations such that you can go anywhere with a degree from there, but the less-well-known law schools often still have pretty good contacts in their immediate surrounding area. And there is more pressure to have a strong GPA, et al., if the reputation of the school you're coming from is less than sterling.

 

Frankly, I was really lucky with the job I got. The agency I work for sent some people to do on-campus interviews at my law school. I did at least a dozen of these with various firms & agencies, and there were only 2 where I didn't completely suck. One of those 2 got me a summer position, at the end of which they gave me an offer to come back full-time after I passed the Bar.

[Walsingham]

Dibs on Enoch as my huge Samoan attorney.

[Enoch]

Dibs on Enoch as my huge Samoan attorney.

Although the first modifier depends greatly upon your frame of reference, and the second modifier is flat-out untrue, my advice to you is to rent a very fast car with no top. And you'll need the cocaine.

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I wanted to be something. I don,t remember what.

 

And I became a 15 year old game addict with a small social life.

 

I love me.

[Wistrik]

I wanted to be a video game developer. By the age of 16 (in 1984) I'd already written my own 2D (overhead) game for a computer with 3.5K of RAM. It was half BASIC and half 65xx assembly language. I had a blast writing it, and never managed to beat it. That was my first introduction to 'game balance'.

 

However, I ended up doing other things, and now I'm sort of like a bard in that I can do many different things, but I'm no elite specialist. When I learned about the long hours involved with game development, especially at 'crunch time', I lost interest in doing it for a living. Instead I write programs as a hobby. No stress, no deadlines, no long hours encroaching on my social life, etc. And it's still fun. I haven't written another game since that first one long ago, but I'm tempted to since developers are constantly falling short of my expectations. (I have rather high standards, which some people appreciate and others despise.)

 

Ideally I'd be a powerful wizard king of a peaceful empire, and I'd wile my time away writing programs in my spacious, airy castle office.

[theslug]

That's true, although a lot depends on the type of job you're looking for and where you're looking for that job. If you want to be a litigation associate at a top-ten Manhattan firm, you probably need to go to a top school. But there are lots of opportunities out there that aren't quite so selective.

 

Also, if you're picking out a lower-tier law school to go to, I'd recommend limiting your search to the geographic area where you want to work. The Yales & Stanfords have national contacts and reputations such that you can go anywhere with a degree from there, but the less-well-known law schools often still have pretty good contacts in their immediate surrounding area. And there is more pressure to have a strong GPA, et al., if the reputation of the school you're coming from is less than sterling.

 

Frankly, I was really lucky with the job I got. The agency I work for sent some people to do on-campus interviews at my law school. I did at least a dozen of these with various firms & agencies, and there were only 2 where I didn't completely suck. One of those 2 got me a summer position, at the end of which they gave me an offer to come back full-time after I passed the Bar.

Ah thank you that was very informative. I don't really have an idea whatsoever what I would do in law but I'm currently in the works of getting a business admin degree and well law school is expensive as all hell so I would most likely be going to UNLV, if they even have a law program there or the university of Las Vegas, I think they have one for sure. But it's kind of like my bro's could be future wife's dad is a partner in his own firm, makes like a mill a year. So you know if I went to law school maybe i could get hired by him but if not I just wanted to know what the job opportunities were like from someone who knows. Nepotism for the win plz.

[Guest Accept]

I wanted to be a player in the NHL, or a firefighter.

 

But at the moment i'm studying to be an electric engineer. Bah.