Indeed, I remember saying "astronaut" at about age 10 to shut my grandmother up. I didn't want to be an astronaut. In fact I resented the question, because it s

Indeed, I remember saying "astronaut" at about age 10 to shut my grandmother up. I didn't want to be an astronaut. In fact I resented the question, because it seemed to have a subtext of "get your ass in gear and think about work". Hence I chose something implausible. I kind of wanted to try to make games, though. And now here I am, many years later, kind of trying to make games! Mission accomplished.