>And my younger son at 10 wanted to be "an affable waiter" (after we had one at a resort). But both kids knew that high school wasn't the end of their education. The older one is now a PhD student in Physics and the younger will be a junior in college in the fall. At least for now, he's majoring in Computer Science.

Same here (except the PhD part:)... the second one repeats the mistakes of the parent :).