Always thought I would be a great rockstar guitarist or something ever since I was 5 and played air guitar with a tennis racket along to Queen’s greatest hits on VHS.
It’s alright, don’t feel sad! Life worked out okay.
Last year a few of my old classmates got in contact with me via Facebook (I’d commented on a class photo that someone else was tagged in). And they all said how they thought I was a genius and was going to be Prime Minister or something, and held me in this sort-of awe… It was odd as I had no idea at the time!
When i was little i decided to be a ‘writer’, except that i just wanted to do the front cover and someone else could do all the boring writing. I came up with an idea for a terminator rip-off called the liquidator, and was devastated when i found out it was a boring financial thing.
This is a good question. As a teenager I was determined that I was single handedly going to create a vaccine for some deadly disease and cure lots of people. Then I got into vaccine research and realised that it’s not actually quite that simple. I did contribute a very tiny amount to a couple of vaccines but ultimately I failed with that ambition. The hope now is that one of the cancer drugs I work on will make it to market and have a positive effect for people.
Bloody hell. I think you can consider this dream achieved! Maybe there was no eureka I cured cancer moment but what an amazing dream and what great work to have done anyway.
When a close family member of mine died I remember thinking “I’m going to be a scientist and work on a cure!” until I started studying the sciences and realised I was completely shit at them and would never achieve that goal.