When I was younger, I watched Wild Discovery on the Discovery Channel ALL the damn time. This spawned my dream of becoming a zoologist to study animals in their natural habitats. I wanted to go to the African savanna and observe a pride of lions... haha!
Reality Check. I played too many video games. It started with watching my brother and dad play Final Fantasy IV on SNES (FFII in Japan). At this point, my destiny to be a video gamer was sealed. Played lots and lots of games. This inspired my desire to be involved with computers in some way/shape/form when I grew up. College rolled around and I initially majored in computer engineering. Then I thought ... "Oh no there's a lot of math involved with engineering. Let me change majors to computer science instead!" Of course, I failed to realize that there is still a LOT of math in computer science. A year into college, I decided to dual major in both Computer Science and Finance. Did a few internships at a software company then an investment bank. Now at age 22, I have just graduated and am currently working as an application developer at a large bank.
If I could change one thing ... I would have dropped out in my sophomore year of college and gone to culinary school. LOL!!! Sounds a bit random right? Don't get me wrong, pretty happy where I'm at now. But I am curious to see what life would have been like if I had made that decision.
