Throwback Thursday: What did you want to be when you grew up? #TBT

[#1]

It's Thursday!

When I was little - well, smaller - I was fascinated with investigators, their gadgets, and technology, I guess. Probably because I was watching James Bond movies and reading spy books (The Hardy boys, The Three Investigators, Nancy Drew, ...). So I wanted to be an inventor. I guess, I wanted to be Q.

So, what did you want to be when you grew up?

Let’s make it a great Thursday!

KGM

[Nicole Christensen]

That is a great idea for a dream job! I love music and loved playing music, so I wanted to be a band teacher. I learned how to play every band instrument, but, in the end, I couldn't play the important things like piano or guitar, so there went that idea. I also did not know that music performance was a blood sport. 

When I went to college for music, it was brutal! But, I am so much happier as a Product Owner, than I think I ever would have been as a band teacher.

[Arthur Stepanyan]

The first job I remember dreaming about, at the age of 5, was Fireman! There was a firehouse next block from our house, with a shiny red fire truck, and back then the firemen wore shiny brass helmets.

So it was less about the heroics and more about the visuals.

Soon after, when I took my first air trip, I decided that I must become a pilot - what?

An no, I never dreamed about being a Jira-using project manager.

[Andy Gladstone]

Am I grown up? Can I still achieve my dream?

As far back as I can remember I wanted to be an investigative journalist. I loved reading, researching and writing. The appeal of banging out the keys on the typewriter (later the word processor) to produce an article was something that I was enraptured by - and I still am today. Life and priorities had me take a different path, but I have never lost the love for writing. I punish my teammates (and often the Atlassian Community) with my prose (and poetry) as my way of scratching that itch.

I hope to one day write a collection of short stories, or maybe even the next great American novel.

[edwin vasquez]

It all depends on what age I was, but soccer player, football player, DJ, and a wrestler. I somehow ended up doing IT work and I am ok with that :-)

[Kristján Geir Mathiesen]

Thanks for sharing, ya'll!  And no, @Andy Gladstone there is still a chance for us :)

@edwin vasquez you are totally right! It DOES depend on what age... I went through some other ones as well.

[Aleksandar Stamenov]

When I was small boy I was admiring the Indiana Jones movies and wanted to become an archeologist like him - find rare artefacts and change our knowledge of history what really happen to people and places :-)

[Sakina]

I wanted to became an Artist... ended up in IT :)

[Alexander Pappert]

What did you want to be when you grew up?

bigger ;)

[Paul Wiggers]

That is a hard question. There is so much that I wanted to be when I grew up; Biologist, Archeologist (Indiana Jones!), Cowboy, Apache pilot, Cyclist, Photographer and Developer.

I ended up in IT, first as a support engineer, on to system administrator and now back at the service desk as a team lead and Atlassian Administrator (still learning both roles). 

In the end, it doesn't really matter what you become. Just make sure that you have fun. There is enough time to try everything you want. Even now that I am 40-years of age, I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. So I better just go with it and enjoy myself :)

[vikram]

@Kristján Geir Mathiesen good question which gets remembering of my childhood dreams. 

First I wanted to become solider, army man at the age of 10, then wanted to become Doctor by seeing my cousin at the age of 15... then I wanted to be an IT professional when I was in graguating. that want came true, but in 2016 I thought my decision is wrong, and I wanted to become a Business man, but still I am working as IT professional. 

Vikram P