My dad told me when I was little that he was an accountant, that he did math and worked with numbers. Naturally, I thought he was a 'count' like the count on sesame street. I couldn't understand why he never wore a cape to work.
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- I thought that Count Dracula was the count from Sesame StreetAnon
- I used to believe there was a limit on the numbers you could count — Carmen
- When I was little i thought that seconds were so fast that you couldn't count them.— Baby
- I thought to count to one thousand you did 1-100, then 100-199, then came 1,000.— Anon!
- I used to believe that it would take forever to count to 100— Jeff
- when i was in kindergarten i used to think that 100 was the highest someone could count!— Jessica