What do you want to be when you grow up?

[Ghost]

Such a simple question that everyone has been asked since they were in Kindergarten.

I still don't know for sure what I will do. My one goal in life is to make something that will make money and that everyone will love. Right now I don't know what that is yet. I wanted to be a video game designer for the longest time, but the way the gaming industry now.. I don't think it's a good idea.

I don't want to go to college, graduate, just to make a Call of Duty game every two years. Or to re-hash the same thing over and over again, that's a factory job which I don't want.

But I want to have a stress free life style and make a lot of money. I do have a knowledge of computers, and I could see myself doing something like that but I don't see it being that rewarding either.

I guess I'll try to make it as a writer, and try to make novels and stories for comic books. The benefit of that is putting something out that I'm proud of, while inspiring others. Like the other job, I don't see it being that rewarding. The only story however I've written is based off of Astro Boy and I'm trying to get that to take me as far as it will allow me to. But the problem is I don't think I'm capable of creating my own original characters or plot.

I could see myself continuing other stories, or writing my own versions of things. But I can't seem to come up with something original.

So if I had to take a shot I guess a writer of both novels and comics.

[Astro Forever]

I personally didn't find out until my twenties...

[Astro Boy2866]

My main goal is to go to college and then the big leagues as a left-handed pitcher. I would like to get a scholarship to Stanford, UCLA, or the party school: ASU .

My back up goal is to be a robotics engineer. Ever since I was little I had always loved to build things and I also liked mechanical things like in robotics.

[Shiyonasan]

I honestly don't know. I've thought about many things that I know I don't want to be, but the ideas I get for careers often sound terrible to me in the long-run. The main two things I have in mind at the moment are:

1. Something involving computers, but not on the intricate level. To make a long story short, I suck at math beyond basic algebra.

2. An author. I have many stories floating around in my head that I could write or type out. Main problem with this idea is that I would much rather write stories casually than to make a career out of it. I've heard that sometimes, making a career out of a hobby can suck the fun out of it, and I think that would be the case here.

Thankfully, I have time to decide, though my twenties are fast approaching...

[Bigdog]

I honestly don't know. I've thought about many things that I know I don't want to be, but the ideas I get for careers often sound terrible to me in the long-run. The main two things I have in mind at the moment are:

1. Something involving computers, but not on the intricate level. To make a long story short, I suck at math beyond basic algebra.

2. An author. I have many stories floating around in my head that I could write or type out. Main problem with this idea is that I would much rather write stories casually than to make a career out of it. I've heard that sometimes, making a career out of a hobby can suck the fun out of it, and I think that would be the case here.

Thankfully, I have time to decide, though my twenties are fast approaching...

To respond to your first goal, it's no so much about math than it is knowing the different coding techniques and to master around them. Not sure about any math really, so I might be wrong.

I'm also aspiring to become an author in two ways: the graphic /comic book area and the literary area and a mix of both.

Just write for fun, practice and from advice I acquired from one of my BFFs, writing two pages per day or a week will allow you to write an entire novel of material in close to a year or a year and a half. Just start slow and pick a topic you truly know and love as well as have a passion for inside and out.

I want to pursue being a filmmaker like a director or writer and do TV shows like Primetime and animation.

[AprilSeven]

Ditto what Jeffbert said.

THIS time I WILL be a teacher, and I will DEMAND ballet and band!! I was too much of a push-over as a child (low self-esteem).

And if we believe we "go on" (which I do), when I "grow up" to heaven I really wanna be a guardian angel. I so much wanted to be a good mom, and never had the chance - so maybe I can do that from "the other side." It's a nice dream, anyway!!

[Astro Forever]

Ditto what Jeffbert said.

THIS time I WILL be a teacher, and I will DEMAND ballet and band!! I was too much of a push-over as a child (low self-esteem).

You remind me that I've been thinking in the past few years that I should have done activities I was NOT good at when I was a child/teenager, so it wouldn't be a weakness anymore in my adult years!

I do not mean that I should have done things that I disliked, just things that I wouldn't have been shy of doing as a child that I wouldn't get into now. I'm not that old but still...

[fafner]

To respond to your first goal, it's no so much about math than it is knowing the different coding techniques and to master around them. Not sure about any math really, so I might be wrong.

It is not impossible to be good with computers without mathematics, far from it. But when it comes to coding, mathematics help a *lot* . Writing a program is not very far from proving a theorem. While it is possible to write a program without strong knowledge in mathematics, if you are familiar with mathematical proofs you are more likely to get things right quickly instead of relying too much on trials and errors, by defining more rigorously what your functions/procedures/methods/whatever name you are giving them today, which values they can or can't accept, how they do what they are meant to do, and in which context.

[CommanderEVE]

I want to be an Animator; Post production, concept artist or VFX artist.

You cannot just say animator as it's a very varied term to use. yes, I want to a animator! But what are you going to animate, do you wanna be a rigger, molder, texture artist, background artist? I'm applying to 3D.

At the moment I have started a BA Hons in Practice Animation. I have started to make the introduction of a short 20 second animation called 'Circus Freaks' I'm working in a team of 4 to create this, we each have to make 5 second animation to make a complete 20 second animation. And the animation has to be driven by the music.

[AprilSeven]

Wow, Sparx that's great!! Yeah animation today is broken into many small pieces of a whole process. Beyond learning the techniques for the different programs (are you using Maya?) it is a bonus to be as skilled at realistic illustration as possible. Best of luck to you!