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What I Want To Be When I Grow Up

This is always the question adults ask kids. "What do you want to be when you grow up?" When I was a kid, I had no fricking clue what I wanted to be, but I thought I should go into teaching for some odd reason or another. When I got to college, I discovered that I don't really like people en masse all that much, I really don't much care for people under the age of about 25, although exceptions can be made for certain ones, and therefore actually going into TEACHING is probably a Very Bad Idea. So, I farted around for a while trying this or that. Accounting? Okay, yeah, don't ask them why we log the same transaction in a billionty different places. Makes 'em cranky. Hey, my dad said, why don't you do what I do? Hm, that sounds like a good idea. So for a while I worked on auto design. Yeah...I designed and packaged car parts. Hey, it's a living, I worked on computers, it was interesting, but ... meh, not really what I envisioned doing, ya know? It was a ...