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What Did You Want To Be When You Grew up?

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LeeC:
soldier, fighter pilot, first man on mars, K-9 cop, boxer, bull fighter, animator, literary author.

edit: oh, also a muppet voice/operator.

Zebediah:
I wanted to be an astronaut. The moon landings had a big effect on me as a kid. Neil Armstrong was my hero. I was going to be the first man on Mars.

The first problem I ran into is that I'm too tall. Maximum height for the US astronaut program is 6'3". I passed that when I was 15, so, no go. Then I figured, well, if I can't fly spaceships, at least I can build them, and decided to major in aerospace engineering. The problem there was that I wasn't very good at my engineering courses. However, I easily passed the one computer programming course that was required for engineering majors at my university - a class that everyone else said was the hardest class they ever took. I got the hint, changed to computer science, and went on to a career as a software developer. Wound up in the telecommunications industry because they were hiring, but that was a good place to be.

Best job I've ever had, though, is dad. The pay sucks, but the rest of it is fantastic.  And I get great performance reviews.  :-D

Thrillho:

--- Quote from: LeeC on 07 May 2014, 11:08 ---soldier, fighter pilot, first man on mars, K-9 cop, boxer, bull fighter, animator, literary author.

edit: oh, also a muppet voice/operator.

--- End quote ---

Actually yeah I wanted to be a voice on Simpsons. I can still do a decent Professor Frink.

Neko_Ali:
Helicopter pilot, police officer, physical effects artist for hollywood specializing in robotics, computer engineer... I don't suppose Jedi counts, does it?

LeeC:
if it did it would be at the top of my list!  :-D

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