When I grow up I want to be a...............

[rbtvgo]

I was wondering how your faith has played into your choices? I became very involved in a church. I wanted to be the oldest person. For 20 years that's the way it's been. It is not at all what I thought it would be.

interesting question. I suppose that all or most of my life God has been there. Didn't know why, just knew. As I think about it, and you are making me think about it.
I would have to say that God always had my back. Makes me smile when I think about it now. Didn't know him then as I do now, but he knew me. Don't know if this makes any sense but he is always there and I know it. No matter what life throws my way. No matter what I do, God is there and he tells me whether I am wrong or right. I go from there.
I often think about what I wanted my life to be and what it is and then I realize that God has me where he wants me. Go figure. Just gives me contentment in knowing. Could I have done more? Could I have reached further? I am where God wants me. I can sleep at night understanding that.

 

[rbtvgo]

I wanted to be an industrial chemist. We had a fantastic chemistry teacher at school, but he suffered from ill health and retired early leaving us with a selection of temporary teachers. My interest switched to my second choice, electronics, and I studied electrical and electronic engineering at uni. To my dismay, this involved a vast amount of maths which I struggled with. It was many years later that I started to see a sort of 'beauty' in maths.

After a couple of years working in the atomic physics research department of the Uni, I got a job with IBM, initially as an engineer and later as a software developer.

Oh, sod all that - I really wanted to be rich, but I never made it past the 'comfortable' stage.

no doubt you have as much money as you need. your comfortable, that's good.