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What did/do you want to be when you grew/grow up? (feddit.org)

submitted 3 hours ago by ki4jgt@feddit.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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My favorite ice breaker. What do/did you want to be as an adult?

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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 1 points 4 minutes ago

More or less in order: firefighter, aeronautical engineer, mechanical engineer, civil engineer, computer programmer, medical researcher.

[–] zener_diode@feddit.org 1 points 31 minutes ago

Used to be "oh, I want to do something with computers and programming".

By now that's solidified into either some sort of sysadmin, or something in the field of designing microprocessors.

I'm also considering instead training to become an ATC after I'm done with my CS degree.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

an “astronaut paleontologist” who digs up fossils on other worlds

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Took a dumb “assessment” in grade school and it said I should be a pilot.

Later I didn’t know tearing apart computers and getting apps to work could be a job and studied engineering. Halfway through that I found systems administration.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

A voice actor. I do call center work. It’s sad but I get people asking if I’m an actor every now and then which is nice.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Astronaut. Later in highschool the assessments said I should be a Helicopter Pilot.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago

lol, that's oddly specific. What qualities make someone a good helicopter pilot instead of a plane pilot?

[–] yenahmik@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Veterinarian, marine biologist, or actor depending on what age you asked me. Now, I am none of those things.

[–] orenj@leminal.space 2 points 3 hours ago

A hobo, going from place to place subsisting.

[–] ki4jgt@feddit.org 2 points 3 hours ago

I'll start: A psychologist