I don't remember wanting to be a train driver when I grew up, although I certainly loved trains. I still would travel by train rather than many other ways given the choice. I don't think I ever wanted to work in engineering or live in America either, although my Dad would probably mention that I showed interest in the idea of management when he told me it was 'getting work done through other people' and that I also had a desire to share my technical knowledge about the art of programming computers fairly early in life. So maybe my future was all mapped out long ago.Of course some would say I never really did grow up. Some would be referring to my height, some to other things.
E5N1 regularly lines up the kid-sized garden chairs to make a train with the small table at the front and sits in the front chair to drive. Sometimes his sisters are willing passengers. On Monday, Exile #4 made this train for him. It's a sleeper as you may just be able to see. As for me, I'm hoping he'll grow out of wanting to be a train driver and get ambitions for a real job - like being a drummer in a band perhaps, but then again - since I never really grew up - what do I know?
At the time I thought your enthusiasm for the definition of Management (when you asked me about a course I had been on) was the idea of getting your (home)work done by someone else!
ReplyDeleteThe programming episode was when we were visiting your big Big Sis at university and I was about to go on a very basic computer course. You were 12 at the most. Having given me some information as walked round you then quizzed me thoroughly on Basic - and useful it was too.