NotUrsula
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We all know that little kids dream of all kinds of improbable professions, but I'm curious to know about the real road not taken. Did you get into your late teens/early 20's with a dream career in mind and end up giving it up?
I did it twice. I really wanted to be an illuminating engineer, but a year or so into college I came to the conclusion that I just would not be able to hack the required math. I still really wish I'd been able to do it; I'm really fascinated by the various properties of light and the ways that they can be manipulated.
Then I went to law school ... and got very sick at the end of first year. So sick that I ended up failing and being dismissed from the school. It cost me a fortune in student loans, but it didn't break my heart. (I had done it mostly because it was a potentially lucrative career that did not require too much advanced math.)
I did it twice. I really wanted to be an illuminating engineer, but a year or so into college I came to the conclusion that I just would not be able to hack the required math. I still really wish I'd been able to do it; I'm really fascinated by the various properties of light and the ways that they can be manipulated.
Then I went to law school ... and got very sick at the end of first year. So sick that I ended up failing and being dismissed from the school. It cost me a fortune in student loans, but it didn't break my heart. (I had done it mostly because it was a potentially lucrative career that did not require too much advanced math.)