Let me make something clear here:
My third thing I've "always" wanted to be isn't exactly true, there are MANY other things I wold love to do, I just put down programmer for the sake of simplicity.
Among the top few things I would want to be (excluding musical things) Programming isn't exactly one of my top 5, (honestly my mind went blank when typing my first post so I just put down something I would consider doing)
One thing I would love to do is be a commercial pilot, e.g. UPS or FedEx.. the problem with this is you are gone all the time, my neighbor is a pilot for UPS and he is home about 30 days out of the year.
Another thing that has always fascinated me was foreign languages. Before I discovered the saxophone (I was already playing piano) and really got into music I wanted to learn every language in the world and e a linguist, until I found out that translators make TONS of money (about $1 per word) and that seemed like a lot of fun, and, pretty easy if you think about it (just repeating what someone says). But, once again if I am constantly on the go being a translator there's no time to compose.
Those are my top two things up until about two years ago when my life in music took off. Actually, now that I think about it, everything seemed to happen perfectly, had I gotten the saxophone I have (my dad's old one) just a few years earlier, I would have gotten bored of it, never joined the local city band, never would have gotten into middle school my eighth grade year and (if i was absent this one day) my high school band director wouldn't have asked me to play the instrument I've always loved: the bassoon.
Wow, funny how things just.. work out.
anyway, I think I should spend some time writing down all these options.. but if I want to make a living from composing, then by gum I will do it (wow never said by gum before XD ) just watch me!
