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What was your dream job/career as a kid? Was it anything remotely realistic?
I remember I wanted to help terraform Mars at NASA because I was a massive sci-fi nerd. I even went into environmental science and wanted to go for that sort of thing, until I realized everyone in environmental science was a depressed dweeb who lied about their stats.
Anyway, now my big dream is to become a writer some day, even if not a great one.
I spent half my childhood wanting to be a scientist or astronaut. Turns out India doesn't have a manned space program, and that the woman who blew up in the Challenger disaster was an American citizen, though you wouldn't know it from how much Indians crowed about her being half-Indian.
I've got an aunt and uncle who are distinguished biologists, which is probably where the desire to be one came from, but then I learned what the salaries looked like and that you primarily need a microscope to look at your payslip, not the bacteria.
I'm not particularly passionate about medicine, it's always been the Default™ career choice, but it pays well and is a relatively smooth ticket out of India, so can't complain too much. I'd have liked to spec into aerospace medicine or prosthetic surgery, but opportunities for that are few and far between, and psych is interesting enough.
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