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- When you were a child, what did you dream of being when you grew up?
- What are the three jobs you would never do?
- What do you consider yourself good at? So what other job could you be successful in?
- If you were forced to change your career, you would be a...
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Detective! Love puzzle solving and thinking outside the box 😎
I'd be a savage 😎
You know you can be a dev and a savage at the same time? :D
so they're not the same thing??
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Film director 🎬🙃
Scientist? Inventor? Anything which involves creating, like programming
Designer is a beautiful "creation" job that doesn't seem considered by many here...
What do you think about it?
absolutely!
dev.to/michelledev3/how-do-people-...
Good one, but I'm not really good at art
aaah, too bad, but maybe in your next life... 🙃
Thanks! I was never really good at art too. Maybe I didn't try hard enough 😉.
Scientist? If I were smart enough LOL ...
Drug lord
ha ha ha :)
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I really wanted to be an actor when I was little. I think actor, teacher, and doctor were the few jobs I knew at that time.
And it's not that I had a thing for acting. I just wanted to be on TV and be a star.
Didn't take long to grow out of it. LOL!
I'm good at solving problems and explaining stuff.
Well, IDK what I'd do if I were forced to change my career today. But if I could, I would've loved to be
Panda caretaker or a zoologist.
Because I love animals
Professional figure skater.
I learned roller skating as a kid and loved it. I used to roller skate at home all the time - from the time I woke up to going back to sleep, I'd keep them on.
Sadly, it isn't a thing in India. So I never considered it a career option.
In fact, until I watched Yuri on Ice! many years later, I didn't even know pro-skating was a thing 😭😭
Physicist/Mathematician.
I had great physics and maths teachers during my junior college. And I was aspiring to be a theoretical physicist for a brief period of time. Somehow, I didn't go that path.
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A friend of mine would like to become a pro skater, I know it's very difficult because it doesn't really exist as a job. To live by doing it you must necessarily become famous enough to have sponsors. Although I must say that skating is growing more and more among young peoples...
Yes exactly! I hope it keeps growing.
Please wish your friend all the best from my side. 😊
hahaha, he will appreciate it for sure
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Physicist,Mathematician,inventor , I love creating stuff , maybe create innovative stuff products or even make films.
Jobs I despise would be:
Lots of devs are mathematicians and/or creative too, especially the front-end devs. What kind of dev are you?
working towards it , I could work as a python programmer but I am now living in the countryside where such jobs do not exist. Working on my java not javascript , webdev skills, too . I still think math or physics would be more suited for me. I teach math occasionally .
Graphic designer
That's a job that I would like to do as well, especially being also web designer. The problem is finding the time to learn...
When you were a child, what did you dream of being when you grew up?
Astronaut, or superhero.
(Before I found out that space is dangerous and inhospitable. And being a superhero would likely be a very short career.)
What are the three jobs you would never do?
Astronaut, superhero, or talk show host.
What do you consider yourself good at? So what other job could you be successful in?
Analytical thinking. Logistics.
If you were forced to change your career, you would be a...
Well, everything else being equal, and all said and told, I'd rather be rich than ugly.
Given that, my career would be indolent nouveau riche.
Although I don't understand why you quit the superhero career, Thanks for your comment @eljayadobe ❤️.
re: Superhero career
I'll direct your attention to: The Boys, Invincible, The Specials, Special, Super, and Deadpool.
I wanted to be a gamedev, so I'm not too far off. 🙃 I'm still planning to dig into gamedev as well.
People always thought I was gonna be an illustrator just because I could draw. My issue with drawing is that I need to be in the right mood AND be motivated to draw. I'd just be too unreliable. Doing coding was simply a much better choice because I basically enjoy it every day. 😂
So even if I weren't a dev I'd still not do illustration. Maybe I would be a webdesigner instead. I also absolutely loved physics at school, and heavily considered pursuing physics at one point, so perhaps it could've gone that way, like becoming a physicist for crime investigation.
I'm still very happy to be a dev though.
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Seeing what you say the process of creating a video game, especially the complex 3d ones, seems to match what you like. It requires a lot of graphics (illustration), programming, and an interest in physics is always an important plus.
Also, for the webdev and web designer (maybe not for the physicist) it's not so difficult to learn/start doing it. Even not at the level of work right away, but just to see what you can do / if you enjoy it. If you have the time to do so, it costs you nothing.
My current fulltime career is webdev so I'm aware of the things that are involved. 😄 I also did some freelancing that involved designing but I just always feel like something's not... right, even though I got all the fundamental design basics right. I definitely just need some more practise I think. I do feel I get better with each project I make.
When I say webdesigner as a different career, I'm referring to investing 100% in that and just knowing the basics of dev. Even if I were to invest more in webdesign now, I'm still first and foremost a dev and I'm not thinking of changing careers. 🙂
Warehouse worker like I am right now.
It's the most difficult job I've ever had and if you've never worked a blue collar job you probably can't comprehend the pound of flesh that goes into the work. I know I didn't!
I'm a consultant who learned to code on the job. I guess if I ever were anything else, I'd go for freelancing and, if time permits, part-time alpacca farmer. Perhaps full time some day. Seriously, those animals are the best
Real Estate Broker or something like that maybe... 😂
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