FUN FACT: I didn’t always want to be a filmmaker. A sampling of the dreams I’ve abandoned since childhood include the standard little boy aspirations of fireman, race car driver, and RoboCop.
What you probably didn’t know (and my family is keen to remind me of as often as possible) is that one of my biggest career goals was to be manager of a Toys”R”Us. Clearly, I didn’t know what the job actually entailed – I thought I could bring home whatever toys I wanted for free – but this was something that stuck to me for a good part of elementary school.
What are some dream careers you’ve outgrown or left behind over the course of your life?
QUENTIN:
Here’s my story about dream careers. My sister wanted to work in a clothing shop all her life as she loved fashion. As a kid, she would buy toy cash registers and make me play customer-and-cashier with her. After graduating from college, she returned to Hong Kong and finally got a job as a salesgirl at the high end fashion department store Lane Crawford through family connections. She was so psyched. On her first day of job, she got so exhausted that she fainted. After that, she was sick for a week and never returned to that job again. That was that.
PHILIP:
When I was a kid wanted to be a Playboy photographer. Even wrote an essay about it on career day in 5th grade and got in trouble. Actually my job now isn’t too far off from this.
Last year, I had blogged about 
Perhaps his fashion has left the deepest impression with the uniformed work force, for as comedy writer Stefanie Novik comments, “He looks like a janitor.” But it is apparent that Kim’s fashion has also influenced the big screen. Just take a look at Dr. Evil.
