[ WP ] A world where kids dream of being accountants , cashiers , bank managers etc . In the adulthood their dreams are crushed when they have to become astronauts , cowboys , ninjas etc .

I remember a time when dreams were real. As a child hours of class could pass by in an instant. My head full of exciting business meetings, or miles of glorious spread sheets. 
 
 In my house business was a dirty word on par with index funds or investment strategies. I had to hide my copies of Forbes and only install excel after my parents had gone to bed. But nothing could keep me down. 
 
 For awhile there I really thought my dreams might just come true. Getting a loan for business school was almost impossible, but I did it. Dealing with the awkward conversations at family gatherings sure did n't help. Grandma would inevitably bring up how my cousins got into Yale to study ninjitsu. 
 
 Through it all I soldiered on. Even when my uncle offered me a job as a cowpoke on his ranch. Even when my friends all got high paying jobs as astronauts. Prestige meant nothing if I couldnt crunch some numbers. 
 
 Then it happened. I had finally landed an internship as some back water company called J.P. Morgan. My wife who had always stood with me came home with tears in her eyes. At first I thought our car had finally been repossessed. It was the only thing that could explain why she had been gone so long, but that was n't the case. She asked me to sit at our rickety old dinner table. So I pulled up a milk carton and waited for the worst. 
 
 The news was some of the most bittersweet Ive ever had. I was going to be a father. She had been trying to keep it from me hoping my new job might pan out but there were complications. At the time we barely had $ 20 let alone the $ 2000 she needed to start treatment. So I did what any sane person in my situation would have. I called my uncle up and accepted his offer to go be a cowboy. 
 
 Now we have a vacation home in Hawaii and another in Switzerland. But would I trade it all for a dingy little room filled with TPS reports? You betcha.
