Childhood Dreams...

Quicken Anja
Quicken Anja Moderator mod
edited February 2023 in The Water Cooler
It is officially Spooky Season, so let's play our own version of virtual dress-up!

What would your occupation be if you had followed your childhood dreams?

I would have become a Prima Ballerina at the New York City Ballet.

What about you?

-Quicken Anja
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  • BK
    BK Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭✭
    I have always wanted to be a biomedical engineer and focus on helping patients with prosthesis.  I studied electronics instead.  Biggest regret of my life for not following what I remain extremely passionate about.

    - Q Win Deluxe user since 2010, US Subscription
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  • maxwelwp
    maxwelwp Quicken Windows Subscription Member, Windows Beta Beta
    Childhood goal was to become a highway patrolman and get the bad guys in high speed chases and shootouts.
    Later years followed a mechanical engineering path which included computer system development/ management and eventually project and program management. No regrets!!!

    “Never stop dreaming,never stop believing,never give up,never stop trying, andnever stop learning.”
    Quicken user since 1993

  • FlyerFran
    FlyerFran Quicken Windows Subscription Windows Beta Beta
    I would have taken a job at Home Depot when they started out in Atlanta.
  • Rusty Dockery
    Rusty Dockery Member ✭✭
    Thought I would be a soldier. Joined ROTC as a freshman in college ... top cadet sophomore and junior year, granted first ROTC scholarship. After summer camp, I was honorably (but unceremoniously :-) discharged as the Army thought I'd have heart issues in my fifties. So ... degree in civil engineering, worked in oilfield, ran an equipment repair business, served hundreds of people as a real estate broker for 37 years ... still active at 76. Regret not serving, don't regret the fun I've had.
  • skeleton567
    skeleton567 Quicken Windows Other Member ✭✭✭✭
    I wanted to work in Criminology and got my Sociology degree, used it once in a job for about 10 months.  Then by chance, I got into bookkeeping and credit management at a salary of $450/month  just to pay the bills. Soon a friend introduced me to computers, and ended up offering me a position to learn at his company, at a salary of $650/month, long before personal computers were created.  That started a 42-year passion for programming, database design and development, and as a database administrator.  For years I would go to a community colleges taking evening courses just to get an exposure to various aspects of computer technology and expand my skill set.  Now at 78 years old I still work with my own data every day, and am regularly learning new skills with database and data manipulation software to collect and analyze data to turn it into information.  

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    Faithful Q user since 1986, with historical data beginning in 1943, programmer, database designer and developer for 42 years, general troublemaker on Community.Quicken.Com
  • skeleton567
    skeleton567 Quicken Windows Other Member ✭✭✭✭
    dreams

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    Faithful Q user since 1986, with historical data beginning in 1943, programmer, database designer and developer for 42 years, general troublemaker on Community.Quicken.Com
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