Our neighbourhood was across the street from a large university. The buildings that faced our neighbourhood contained the medical school and the teacher's college. (There were lots of other buildings, but I never saw them) Therefore, I thought that I had to be a doctor or a teacher when I grew up, because those were the only things you could learn how to be in that city. I never questioned how my father had managed to go to that same university and become a programmer...
A childhood belief about work
others believed things like this
- I once thought people would keep growing until they were as big as buildings if they didn't go to the doctor. — Tufty
- I used to believe in the night my dog transformed in a wolf and ate the animals of my neighbourhood.— Tessy French students in eighth grade
- I thought the "To Let" signs on buildings meant they were public toilets.— Scottish Laddie
- I always thought thunder was the sound of the crumbling buildings, after lightning had struck them.Anon
- i used to believe that scaffolding was used to support buildings when they were having work on them.Anon
- I used to think 'To Let' on disused office buildings meant they were big toilets.— Tracey