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

I'll be surprised if my younger son actually ends working in this field in the long run. He had to declare a major and that was one he was interested in and could finish in time to graduate. Eventually, he'll figure out what he wants to be when he grows up. <s>

Tamar