Things Change

What did you want to be when you grew up? I wanted to be a vet, but then found out I wasn’t very good with science. It turned out I just wasn’t interested in learning science until I got older. I enjoyed it when I went back to school as an adult. Anyway, what amazes me is the kind of jobs that exist that I didn’t ever think about. I just didn’t know some of these things existed. I hear people today talking about being marine biologists, video game programmers and other jobs. When I was growing up, most of the things I thought of were doctors, lawyers and trade jobs. My dad’s friends were electrician, plumbers, auto mechanics and more. They were doing things like power supply repair, putting lines in, and fixing cars, and even today some of that is totally different; look at computers in cars. There’s a company called ACS Industrial, and they even do things like high voltage power supply repair. Those are jobs that you need a trained professional to do!

What do you want to do when you grow up? I’m 40 now, and I’m still not sure what I want to do. I keep changing my mind! My son wants to create video games. They didn’t even have those kinds of jobs when I was growing up, did they? Maybe they did, I just wasn’t aware of cool choices like that!