Career planning
For some reason, I found today's Wondermark strip particularly amusing, in a bittersweet sort of way:
Thinking back to what I wanted to be when I grew up, at various stages of my childhood and adolescence, I can recall the following: actress, artist, anthropologist, astronaut, cat breeder, computer programmer, dog breeder, falconer, fashion designer, filmmaker, full-time political activist, lawyer, physicist, playwright, professor, toy designer, veterinarian, wildlife biologist, writer and zookeeper. And probably some more that I can't think of right now.
I suppose my actual career (web designer, which did not exist as an option until I was at least 30) could be said to draw on the artist and programmer choices to some extent. And while I've never (yet) been a full-time writer or anything close to it, I have at least done a certain amount of writing and gotten some of it published. But really, I don't think the life I have now exactly measures up to any of my childhood career projections.
Which makes me curious: how about the rest of you? What did you want to be when you grew up? And are you doing anything close to it now?
Thinking back to what I wanted to be when I grew up, at various stages of my childhood and adolescence, I can recall the following: actress, artist, anthropologist, astronaut, cat breeder, computer programmer, dog breeder, falconer, fashion designer, filmmaker, full-time political activist, lawyer, physicist, playwright, professor, toy designer, veterinarian, wildlife biologist, writer and zookeeper. And probably some more that I can't think of right now.
I suppose my actual career (web designer, which did not exist as an option until I was at least 30) could be said to draw on the artist and programmer choices to some extent. And while I've never (yet) been a full-time writer or anything close to it, I have at least done a certain amount of writing and gotten some of it published. But really, I don't think the life I have now exactly measures up to any of my childhood career projections.
Which makes me curious: how about the rest of you? What did you want to be when you grew up? And are you doing anything close to it now?