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Did you want to be a web designer when you were a kid?
4:34 with TreehouseThis question comes from Ryan Allen in the Treehouse Facebook group, "What did you want to be when you grow up, when you were a kid? Did any of you start college or career paths that were totally different from web/technology or were you always computer geeks?"
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[treehouse, Teacher Q&A]
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[When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?]
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[answer by Nick Pettit]
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Growing up, I was always into computers
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in parallel with whatever else I was interested in at the time.
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When I first started college, I wanted to be a filmmaker,
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so I was in Cinema Studies
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for about a year, or maybe it was just a semester.
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After a while, I just kind of realized that
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I didn't want to do the whole LA thing,
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and I didn't want to risk struggling for a number of years.
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At the same time, I felt like the web was more well suited to my interests.
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I was really interested in the interactivity
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and just how young of a medium it was and still is
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and just how much exploration there is to be done.
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[answer by Jason Siefer]
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When I was a child, I wanted to be an astronaut.
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That did not really work out.
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But I never really pursued that
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after about 6 years old--never really pursued that.
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When I went to college,
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I actually did not go to college for programming
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or for computer science, as they call it in the official degree.
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I ended up going for psychology.
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Then after working in customer service for five years,
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I decided I no longer wanted to help people,
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so I took up development.
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But I had actually always been a closet geek.
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I was programming since I was really, really young.
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[answer by Amit Bijlani]
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Interesting question.
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I wanted to be a fighter pilot when I was a kid,
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and that, of course, didn't pan out.
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I mean, I'm here.
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What's the rest of the question?
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[off-camera speaker] Did you start with a different career path,
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or were you always a computer geek?
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I actually was--yeah--I started coding when I was 12,
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so, yeah, technically I was always a computer geek.
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Mid career I had
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I guess a career mid-life crisis
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where I wanted to change paths,
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but thankfully I stuck with it, and I'm still doing this,
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and I'm loving it even more.
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[answer by Mat Helme]
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I've been doing art basically my whole life--artistic stuff--
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fine arts, painting, drawing, air brushing,
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a lot of street art stuff--
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but I never pursued it initially
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when I went to school--to college--
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because everybody told me to do that,
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and I wasn't the type of person to do that.
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I actually went to school for athletic fitness for two years,
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and then I realized that I needed to be in the art industry
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and switched over to graphic design,
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which then led to web design.
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I actually didn't know how to use Microsoft Word
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until my second year in college, like proficiently.
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[answer by Jim Hoskins]
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When I was much younger, probably architecture or designing things.
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I was always a builder,
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really using whatever tools or materials
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were around me,
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including Lego and cardboard
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and tape and scissors.
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I was always building things and sort of thought
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designing and building houses seemed cool--when I was much, much younger.
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Then I discovered computers.
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It's a medium where the materials are all free,
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and I was like, all you really need is knowledge and that computer
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and you can make almost anything.
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So that was really appealing to me and when I got into computers.
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I went to school for computer science, which was interesting,
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but it's not teaching you web design or web development,
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but it's giving you some foundations that are helpful
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in the career of development and definitely intellectually interesting.
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[answer by Allison Grayce]
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I was always a computer geek, I think.
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Since my dad was a programmer and my mom was a graphic designer,
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I kind of just always had this software and technology
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readily available for me.
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I think it was when I was 15 years old,
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I would procrastinate all my homework
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to do web design.
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So I think when they were like, "What do you want to do for college?"
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and I was like--
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They suggested that I take web design as a career path.
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I was like, "You can get paid for that?"
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So I think that's really when the light bulb went off
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and I decided that that's what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.
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