Childhood dream
 

My childhood dream was to fly on a unicorn.

What's your childhood dream? When you were younger, and your teacher asked you what you want to be when you grow up, what did you say? Are you following that path? (I'm guessing no, since I doubt any of you answered "I want to be a stoner" back then) What changed?

I remember I wanted to be a teacher, because my mom was one and I thought I'd enjoy "helping" students. Then time passed, I did tutoring for a bit, but soon I realized that I would have no patience doing this as a full time career, and it seems it might be pretty stressful if I want to be a "good" teacher.

Dream-wise, I don't really think I had much of a dream.. probably travel around the world before I'm too old? Other than that..

What about you?

Design video games. Play video games for the rest of my life.

Now I'd say my dream is to become awesome at playing the guitar.

I always wanted to be an astronaut, I was obsessed with NASA for about 5-6 years of my life starting around age 6 or so. That dream died, as well with my ambitions in life.

I wanted to be a Ghostbuster.

I've always wanted to become an author.

When I was little and people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I'd tell them, "Older". Years later, when I was doing GCSEs and A-Levels, people asked me which subjects I was doing, I'd tell them, then they'd ask what I wanted to be with those subjects (A-Level was History, Maths, Computing and Chemistry), and I'll tell them, "Fireman". These days it's a Programmer - maybe work on an OS, or a suite of programs. If possible, I'd love to be involved in the UI side.

Ive always wanted to either be an astronaut or an archaeologist.

When I was really little (like four) I said I wanted to go to MIT and build bridges. Well... I'm almost there.

I wanted to program in and understand machine code...

I've since realized that this is not practical, though I do deal in assembly and on rare occation have to encode or decode an instruction or two in machine code directly.

There are people who wanted to build bridges and later become politicians..

You wanted to go to MIT when you were four? Wow.. ambitious.


What caused you to have such a dream, and at what age?

Really young. I've programmed computers since elementry school, mostly in BASIC. I wanted the power to do more. I finally learned x86 assembly the summer after 9th grade. To date I've dealt with assembly for x86, some Atmel family, Microchip PIC16x, Infineon C166, and ARMv4.

My childhood dream was to be an architect since I loved to design and make structures. I guess I'm half achieving that, If I pursue my current dream. I want to become a civil engineer and get an MBA.

What is ARM?

I may become a politician on a small scale one day..

Be an actor.

What is it now? Be an actor.

It's the processor in some mobile phones, ain't it?

ARM stands for Advanced RISC Machines, and is the name of an IP company that designs processing cores called by the same name. Processors and microcontrollers built arround these cores have widely varrying capabilities and could appear in anything from a handheld computer to a freebie USB thumb drive.

ARMv4 is the name of a particular family of cores, all sharing a certain instruction set and other features.