Some kids want to be astronauts.
(Remember Hillary Clinton's claim that she wrote to NASA as a girl saying she dreamed of being an astronaut, and NASA -- preposterously -- is supposed to have written back saying they weren't taking girls?)
Others want to fight fires.
I wanted to be a high school math teacher.
I had it all figured out. I'd coach the school's math team, and I'd teach the most advanced classes.
Now there's nothing wrong with that profession at all. I love teaching and I love math. But I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to be doing what I'm doing now (which I happen to love even more).
I do tutor math from time to time, because the bug never left me, but I get to have a job I love that I can do when I want and on my own terms.
And which provides for my five children a lot better than that one would have.
Also, I've built something that can't be taken away from me. Even if one income stream gets shut down somehow, I have plenty more where that came from.
What I do goes way, way beyond my podcast, in other words. So if you don't want your own podcast, my story still applies to you.
I figured it all out through a long, hard slog.
Here's the quick version; go thou and do likewise:
Tom Woods