MUSIC ED! :D

I hope to be an archaeologist working in Europe someday, but my future-daydreams change all of the time.

When I was five I wanted to be Emperor of China, when I was seven I wanted to be a Dinosaur trainer and when I was eight I wanted to be a spaceship pilot. These rank as my more exciting though slightly delusional career plans.

When I was three I told my father I wanted to be an economist.

When I was three, I wanted to "marry every woman in the world"

Friendly - Spaceship pilot wasn't that delusional.

I started out with a strong desire to be either the leader of an extremely powerful mercenary group, King of the World, or a milkman. As I grew into teanage years my views matured and I dropped the milkman idea.

Looking at criminal trial law, aiming for federal prosecution but also considered being a defense attorney. I know what field of law... just not sold on what side.

Oh!

Not at age 3. lol

I wanted to be President.

I wanted to be:

Paleontologist
Astronaut
Comedian

I still think I could have made a decent comedian.

Now, I am studying to become an Electrical engineer.

Oh, I also (at a much later age) signed up to study engineering (in electronics) to design robots...

lol @ Octavious. When I was three I wanted to be President.

I'm a criminal defense attorney. It's the best possible job in the field of law I can imagine; the work is interesting, I'm my own boss and can thus decide my own schedule limited only by the court's schedule, and I make a huge impact in people's lives. That said, if I could go back in time and tell myself one thing, it would be "Don't go to fucking law school." So, if anyone here is thinking about becoming an attorney (President Eden), work in the field before you spend dollar one on the albatross that is a JD. Go find a small law office to work at as a paralegal or office assistance or something, and spend a year doing that to make sure you won't wake up at 40 hating your job, but unable to quit because you've got $80,000 worth of student debt.

When I was younger, I was never career specific, I would always say I wanted a job that makes lots of money for not much work!, If I could go back in time I would love to convince the younger me to become an athlete, preferably a football (soccer) player, but i'm going to have to make do with being a psychologist.

I wanted to be a vetrinarian. then I wanted to be a chemical engineer. then I wanted to be a bio-mechanical engineer and make prosthetics, including a hand with tentacles instead of fingers and replacement parts to do cool things....I became an electrical engineer and wasted years doing bullshit making better parts for cars and feeling no sense of satisfaction. then I went into sales and tried to make people buy shit they didn't want and/or need...equally unsatisfying. I would now like to be a professional golfer (for my pleasure), or author/artist so that I can contribute something to the world that might make someone's life a little brighter, at least for a moment. I hate the fucking pursuit of the all-mighty dollar, for which there is never enough if you pursue it, but would just like to make enough so that I can live out life with a decent internet connection and not be a burden on my children.

Wow...Bob the liberal is a criminal defense attorney. Why am I not surprised...Funny how the guy that (presumably) makes decent wages off the suffering of others always wants to see people suffer for the benefit of others...But at least in an alternate life he would choose otherwise.

Do doctors make decent wages off of the suffering of others?

Bob -- don't get all in a huff. It was somewhat in jest. I truly believe that defense attorneys are a necessary evil, just as cops are a necessary evil. I question the motives of defense attorneys, just as I question the motives of hate-filled prosecutors that just want another notch on their belt.

But to equate a doctor to a defense attorney? Hmmmm....I don't think so. don't tell me that a good defense attorney will never take a man he knows is guilty and get him off on a technicality. that may be "by the book" legal to do, but I couldn't go to sleep at night knowing I got a guilty man off because a cop failed to do x,y,z in the proper order. YES...it is necessary for the protection of the innocent that such technicalities exist....but...I'm just saying.

A doctor, on the other hand, in theory does not have to go through those options. If they can cure you,they do. Now...you can debate as to whether or not they unnecessarily prolong suffering...but that's another story.

Anyway - chill, Bob. I just had to take a shot at you because you are generally such an asshole that you throw insult at me at the mere sight of my name, without usually commenting on what I said. So, true to *your* form, I decided to insult you first.

Still haven't made up my mind, at 49 I figure there is still time. In the meantime I have been a management accountant/IT manager/project manager which has taken me around the world so I guess I should not complain.

Astronaut/Test Pilot, Musician, or Computer Geek. I went with computers because my color blindness precluded the whole flying for a living thing and jazz musicians have to be discovered and get deals on jazz labels to make any money, but my natural proclivity to logic and computers has been good to me.

In the end, I realized a job makes a living. What you do outside of work makes it a life.

I wanted to be a pilot for a long time (as opposed to economist - I lied). At present, the list of options at age 20 stands as follows (in no particular order) - banker/money pusher, journalist, entrepreneur, field worker (microfinance), academic (stay in school), analyst in policy thinktank, UN employee...etc.

Be a post-apocalyptic hunter-gatherer. It's a growth industry.

What do they do, thucy? Hunt post-apocalyptics then gather their belongings up (that which you kill, you keep).

Kid: Construction Equipment Operator, Pilot or Firefighter
Teen: Teacher, Coach or Lawyer
College: Teacher or Foreign Service Officer

As an adult I've been a teacher/coach and a bureaucrat. I probably have another career change or two left in me.

Another word for a "technicality" is "law". The point of the rather mild procedural requirements placed upon police is to make sure they do their job and make cases against the guilty, and not just the first target of opportunity. Of course, they know the procedural trip wires and what to say on the stand to give almost any action the cloak of legality, but at least they have to go through that step.

As to comparing doctors to defense attorneys, both do most of their work when their clients are facing life-altering troubles. Both are supposed to help any person about whom they can remain clinically detached while dealing with the issues. I don't see much difference, except doctors fight biological foes whilst defense attorneys fight sociological foes.

I'm considering trying to get a job as an analyst with the FBI, NSA, or CIA. Not a field agent, just an analyst looking for patterns and developing algorithms to help hunt the bad guys down.

A friend of mine wrote this paper for his honors thesis and got recruited by the FBI.

http://chrismilroy.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/thesis.pdf

It's easy to hunt the bad guys down. Just go to K Street and you can bag a ton of them right there.

I'd love to move back to Virginia. I was born in Norfolk General and spent my summers all over the Chesapeake Bay growing up when I'd visit my grandparents and take out the sailboat. Langley isn't that far from the bay - maybe 50 or 60 miles.

Life us what happens while you are making other plans -John Lennon

Whatever you do make sure you enjoy it