when i was a kid I wanted to be an astronomer so badly but i sucked rear end at math and so that dream was shattered  but i still love space and I get hella excited at new space discoveries so I can at least act like a kid again when I find out something new about the cosmos  Also post telescope recommendations itt I would love to get into stargazing again
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Feb 23, 2021 16:32
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I also wanted to be an astronomer but I also realized I kinda sucked at math and I didn't like the job prospects. I make maps now though and that still involves some space stuff. 
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Feb 23, 2021 16:36
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I wanted to be the third person on Mars. Cause some people still remember Pete Conrad.
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Feb 23, 2021 20:20
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Space Marine count?
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Feb 23, 2021 20:23
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Astronaut! But my eyes were hosed from an early age, so no Air Force for me. I still dream about working at NASA, though.
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Feb 23, 2021 23:50
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I wanted to be an astronomer or astronaut so bad when I was a wee child, like 2nd and 3rd grade. But by the time 6th grade rolled around I was a full-fledged delinquent, and never did any junior astronaut programs or pursued a STEM education. Years later it turned out that I was pretty athletic and good at math, so welp
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Feb 24, 2021 02:56
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I'm a grown up and I still want a career with space stuff.
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Feb 24, 2021 03:00
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Yes! I wanted to be like living in space colonies. That be cool.
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Feb 24, 2021 03:34
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48 Hour Boner posted:I'm a grown up and I still want a career with space stuff. Same but idk what that would be!
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Feb 24, 2021 03:44
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At some point I got lazy and demotivated. I somehow managed to obtain a STEM education and enter a STEM career path. I think it could still happen but I’d have to have friends help me change my priorities in life.
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Feb 24, 2021 04:16
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I'm gonna be a spess mahreen
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Feb 24, 2021 04:58
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Absolutely! I remember my dad getting me out of bed so I could watch Apollo 11 land on the moon. I had a book titled "You Will Go To The Moon" which explained how going to the moon would be a routine trip in the near future, even for kids. I was going to pilot that ship! Didn't make it, but I do teach science and am an avid amateur astronomer. But! One of my students from my very first year of teaching got really excited by my love of astronomy and space exploration and later decided to study Aerospace Engineering in college as a result. She later got a job at JPL and worked on both Curiosity and Perseverance. So I might not do the space thing professionally, but I inspired someone else to do that, and that makes me really, really proud.
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Feb 24, 2021 05:36
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Genesplicer posted:Absolutely! I remember my dad getting me out of bed so I could watch Apollo 11 land on the moon. I had a book titled "You Will Go To The Moon" which explained how going to the moon would be a routine trip in the near future, even for kids. I was going to pilot that ship! Didn't make it, but I do teach science and am an avid amateur astronomer. I'm melting right now  this is the most wholesome post and you get to say a little tiny bit of you is on another planet!
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Feb 24, 2021 14:59
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I did. Then I had one. Then I left it
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Feb 24, 2021 15:44
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Wanted to be an astrophysicist, but didn't do well with calculus
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Feb 24, 2021 16:58
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I did, and then I determined that that was doomed to fail and pursued other things. And then I ended up an astronomer anyway, somehow. 
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Feb 24, 2021 17:15
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No but I did it anyways
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Feb 24, 2021 17:40
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As a young child I wanted to be the first "astronaut-paleontologist" and go check for dinosaur fossils on the moon. It didn't work out.
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Feb 26, 2021 00:00
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My parents may still have the illustration I made in Kindergarten, when I wanted to be a lawyer for NASA. A rocket lawyer, if you will. Rocket docket
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Feb 26, 2021 03:40
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I dreamed about becoming an astronomer and astronaut throughout kindergarten and the 1st grade. I was really fascinated with the planets, especially Jupiter and Saturn since they were the giants. Then in the 2nd grade I moved on from space to dinosaurs, dreaming about becoming a paleontologist. The stegosaurus was my favorite dinosaur. After the 2nd grade, I never thought about what realistic career I wanted to pursue (outside of becoming a professional football or basketball player as kids are wont to do) until high school, when I decided to go into computer science so I could go into video game development. While I did major in computer science in college, my career took a completely different path from there.
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Feb 26, 2021 06:38
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no but oddly enough as an adult, yes. even applied to NASA’s astronaut program. lol. got reeeejected. but I also applied to SpaceX (software engineer) and got accepted. let’s just say Elon has no problems taking advantage of a young and passionate workforce and so I didn’t take the job. I now code for some hedge fund. sigh. elon save me.
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Feb 26, 2021 07:06
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I wanted to be an astronaut as a little kid but then checked the odds and found out 1) the chances were basically zero and 2) I'm too freakishly tall to fit inside spaceships anyways. Then I wanted to be an aerospace engineer and work on spaceships but that didn't work out after I went to a professional event and the kid next to me was just so excited about getting to help murder brown people at his defense contractor internship working on vibration control in missiles or whatever that I had to walk out in disgust and become a plant toucher instead (I was kinda mediocre at math anyways I would've failed out in all likelihood given another year or two so for the best). I'd totally work on exobiology if that ever became a thing though, Earth biology is cool and I like looking at plants but I'd like looking at weird Europan pond scum or whatever even more.
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Feb 26, 2021 16:52
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AskaniSystem posted:As a young child I wanted to be the first "astronaut-paleontologist" and go check for dinosaur fossils on the moon. It didn't work out. Good news! There's still a chance! https://www.esquiremag.ph/long-read...asteroid%20hit.
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Feb 26, 2021 18:34
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Same as a lot of people here. Yeah, wanted to be a cool top gun Maverick and then fly space fighter jets for NASA. The space budget getting slashed and forever wars put an end to that. Now I don’t even work tangentially to space. If I knew there’d be a real market I might have tried harder to work with satellites but it seemed like space was dead and buried a decade or two ago.
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Feb 27, 2021 15:17
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I absolutely wanted to be an astronaut, walking on the moon would be a dream come true for me. I met the minimum qualifications for my country's last national astronaut selection, so applied because obviously, but I was definitely not selected. After seeing the people they did select, they made the right call 
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Feb 27, 2021 18:43
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Feb 27, 2021 19:00
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Delicate Stranger posted:My parents may still have the illustration I made in Kindergarten, when I wanted to be a lawyer for NASA. A rocket lawyer, if you will. I still have the rocket drawing I did in Kindergarten. That was in 1967. It was part of the book we all drew in class. Looking back, it was a pretty amateurish attempt at a rocket.
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Mar 1, 2021 06:08
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I was obsessed with space as a kid and still love it. I even studied rocket science at uni as part of my engineering degree, but there's no space industry to speak of in Australia so I settled hard to doing trains instead. I drew this as a kid and it's still hung up at my parents' place and I don't loving care if you're going to tell me those two vehicles would never go together because Applo 14 can do whatever I want it to. 
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Mar 1, 2021 10:04
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I actually started in the astrophysics program in college, but then I got a job at the observatory. After three months of spending Friday and Saturday nights all by myself doing isodensity recordings, I said this sucks, I don’t want to do this for a living, and switched to computer science. I still enjoy astronomy as a hobby, and spend Friday and Saturday nights by myself stacking CCD exposures instead.
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