| Never did know what I wanted to do as a kid. When I was about seven I remember saying to my best friend that I wanted to be very rich, and have a huge house with lots of naked ladies walking about in it.
I was always interested in technical stuff, but not practical enough to follow an engineering trade, or clever enough at Maths to be a chartered engineer or anything like that. In fact I was always told that I was too arty for technical stuf and too technical to be arty - work that one out.
I did start playing double bass at 14 and electric bass after that (I was always a bassist, never a frustrated guitar player), and got to be pretty damn good in my late teens, early twenties. I followed the 'rock and roll' dream and got right to the verge of a recording contract when the band split due to some people in it getting cold feet about signing. I guess my dreams of that big house with lots of naked ladies went up in the same puff of smoke as my rock star aspirations. Still play now, but nowhere near as well as I did then.
Ended up like a lot of people drifting into IT and been there ever since.
Thinking back, if I had my time again, I would really love to have been studious enough to be an architect. I'm fascinated with buildings and I think it would have been a good choice for someone caught between technical and artistic interests  |