What did you want to be when you were a kid?

Hi Snam, there were many things I wanted to be when I was a kid - Superman, Spiderman. Then I wanted to be a doctor, if not, a teacher. Yet I'm none of these - I went into computer science and started my career in IT. However, I somehow ended up as a marketing professional, a career which I find very challenging and enjoyable!

There were several things I wanted to be when I was a kid. I wanted to be a teacher, an archeologist or a marine biologist.

Honestly, I want to be a scientist. I love science, especially physic. However, as I grow up, I end up turning into the other path. Engineering ... degree in Robotics and Automation. But, after I'm done with my degree, I turn myself into a business, which turn me out of my expectation. Now, I think of putting myself back into engineering world, I really love it ...

When I was a kid i.e. in my 4th or 5th Class I wanted to be a scientist- a physicist and work on astrophysics. I read an English lesson which extolled the excitement in knowing "the extent of the Universe" and said that the Expanding Universe theory could be proven only if one could discover techniques that were not yet available to study the Red-shift of the Radio signals coming from distant radio stars-quasars? I remember having written in my diaries in those days several such yet uncovered mysteries of the sciences- esp. Physics. I never used to like Biology or Chemistry because they involved more rote memory. My most favorite subject was Math. By the time I was in the 6th and 7th grade my tastes turned to Mechanical Engineering because I lived next to the Railroads,as my Dad was on the Railway. I took a deep interest in Motive power in the form Diesel Locomotives.The design and realization of machines filled my mind and dreams. When I passed the seventh grade and was stepping into 8th my uncle, who was a mechanical engineer, impressed upon me the New Technology that was emerging-- Electronics and Communication. He told me that mechanical engineering was old hat; "you may not even land a job, swing with the times and do Electronics and Communication Engg. I took this advice rather seriously and started reading beyond my years! That was my way of firing myself with enthusiasm. In the next three years I learnt more and more physics, what was called Modern(Atomic) Physics and to understand those equations an equal amount of Math. To keep my spirits high, I remember, while I was in my 10th grade I bought the book, William Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain's, Classic work on Transistor Electronics. I also wanted to buy Truman S. Gray's Applied Electronics. But by that time it went out of print. My Intermediate Collegiate years were full of dreams of pursuing this Electronics Engg course later. Finally I did get into ECE. In my second year, I picked up a taste for Pure Mathematics, so much so that I began to neglect my main Engineering Course, so intense that I could not pick up a liking for Engineering Mathematics itself, considering it to be impure, incomplete, and half done in terms of Mathematical rigor. Around this time I developed a love for medicine, and did some medicine related studies on my own, trying to discover if I had made any mistake in the choice of vocation. By the 4th year of our course I was re-attracted to Engineering study and I concentrated on some of the core subjects.Digital Electronics, Computer Organization and Architecture became my favorites. As I finished my Engineering course I also picked up a deep interest in the Sanskrit Language wherein continued from where I had left it in my Intermediate course. In India Engineering Courses had no language courses except in the first 2 years where we had English, esp. to help students coming from regional language medium schools to pick up essential English. It[The love for and interest in Sanskrit] continued ever since as my most engaging intellectual effort, and continues to be so even to this day. After I did my ECE, I joined a Control Systems manufacturing company, I got more and more engrossed in everything but Control Systems- Mathematics, Physics, Computer Programming, Sanskrit Language Studies, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, and what not. These are all continuing to this day. Now to answer your question: Did I achieve my dream? In a way YES! In more than one way NO! NO! NO! Why? When I entered my profession I expected to do some original work. Though Controls were not my love, I did want to master the same and test myself by making some very fundamental contributions. But that did not happen. Commercial organizations don't work that way. So, I am so eagerly waiting for my second childhood and youth. My Retired Life. Then, I want to restart where I left my becoming an Ideal Engineer and this time round I hope to really achieve my DREAM somewhere around my 80th year. For this one reason I want God to give me the necessary longevity with good health!

i like to be a flight attendant. it was stated in my yearbook. and now, i am NOT flying,hehehe...

While I was a kid, I wished to be a movie actor. I always used to dream how I would look like on the screen. But becoming a movie actor is nt something easy. It is a sad thing that I had to turn aside this desire completely. But even today, whenever I read about the lives of movie actors, the same dreams come back again.