What do/did you want to be when you grow up?

mkray41 said:
Then I wanted to be a game designer, but I could never find the time to sit down and study the stuff I needed to know.
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So many people have aspirations of being a game designer, but few realize that it's actually very boring and tedious work. I love videogames and I have ever since the Atari, lol. Personally, I would love to be part of a team that creates a really awesome game, but I just know that I would never be able to get past all the boring crap to get to the good stuff. I would never be able to look at lines upon lines of code all day long. I'd much rather do all the fun stuff you hear about that happens at those places, but it just doesn't work that way.


DCR said:
Well, the earliest thing I wanted to be as a kid was a paleontologist or archaeologist. I was really into dinosaurs.
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So was I. I had those exact same dreams as a kid. It wasn't until much later in life that I came to realize that neither one of those professions are anything like what I thought they would be like. I totally blame Spielberg for that, I wanted to be Indiana Jones so freakin bad, lol.
 
Well when i was young I wanted to be the guy who made Banjo Kazooie 2.

A little older, I wanted to be the guy who made Banjo Threeie.

A little older and I had a clue, I wanted to be a game maker.

A little older and I started to actually look into what it was and I wanted to be a Game Designer. Also to play in a metal band, but even then I knew there was no money there.

Now I'm studying game design at uni and play guitar usually on my own, sometimes with a drummer, never in a band =(. I know my career prospects aren't exactly great, especially living in Australia, but I'm pretty determined, there is nothing else I've ever really wanted to do and I've been focussed on the same basic things for literally as long as I remember. I would really like to get into level design, but I understand the extreme difficulty of getting into any position in a time when so many big names are dying off and Australia basically isn't worth it any more...
 
Ever since I was 14 years old, I've wanted to be a Sound Engineer.

I remember watching the making of Metallica's "The Black Album" on MTV (yes, MTV actually used to play "Music videos" and other cool shit), and thinking to myself "I want to be that guy behind the console, recording the bands."
The rest as they say is history.

Little by little I've been building my studio.
My girlfriend's (soon to be fiancee :-)) dad is helping me build my own custom sound booth (he's an architect), and ever since high school I've been getting microphones and stuff for the studio.
My main focus is on ADR (Voice-Overs) and demos for local bands. ;-)

The process has been long, but in the meantime I'm getting my MBA (since I'm working at a University and get paid tuition) and just trying to get more business.
It isn't easy, as the music industry (along with other entertainment fields) is very "cut-throat," but I wake up every morning loving what I do for a living, and not hating life.
 
It took me 2 short careers and 30 years of life to figure out I wanted to be an accountant when I grew up. I know at 30 years old I was already grown up or old by many of you guys' standards. I always loved numbers but I always thought being an accountant would suck. Turns out it did not suck for me, though I am sure most of you would have found it boring as hell. I let that notion of being an accountant would suck keep me from doing something I actually liked for a long time. Needless to say I as much as I liked being an accountant I am no longer an accountant. Now I own a business in my other passion BEER, so I get to do all of my own accounting. I have what I consider to be the most important job I could ever have. My job is to keep my employees wanting to work for me when they grow up.
 
I thought I had it all figured out when I chose computer graphics (especially advertising) but I realized I wanted to do my own thing for that kind of a job so I had my portfolio and started this little t-shirt company; created various designs, a website and even had a deal going with a t-shirt printer nearby but then my only computer crapped out on me so it was a bit of a wake up call. :/

I took some time off to think about what I really wanted to do until I decided to be a paramedic but to save time I went into nursing. I should be done getting my degree within around 4 months since I now only have internships left. Eventually I'll probably get the specific drivers license and go paramedic but I like it so far. :) It's hard to know what you really wanna do coming straight outta high school that's for sure.
 
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