I was thinking about how until I was 18, my life dream was to become a reclusive shut-in and live in the woods and never talk to nobody.
Now I just want to manage a hedge fund... boring...
If you want to manage a hedge fund in 2040 you might as well start transitioning yourself into a computer. Poor hedge fund managers will be the first victims of automation and by the 2030s studying finance will be the equivalent of studying cultural antropology or so today (no offense). As an economics student who aspired to work in the financial sector I've become resigned to the fact that by 2040 I'll be either unemployed or an economics teacher in some place nobody has ever heard of in the Dutch Bible Belt or (pls no) Groningen (I hate children, especially when they're in puberty). Meanwhile my econometrics/financial engineering/theoretical physics friends will all be millionaires 
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As a kid I wanted to be a historian, as a teenager I wanted to be a politician and now I'm almost done with my bachelor's degree with the aim of going into international business.
Dude, that's literally me. When I was 6 I wanted to become an archaeologist, when I was 12 I wanted to become a historian, when I was 16 I wanted to become a politician and now I'm torn between economic consulting or doing something more management/strategy-related. Or maybe even investment banking (still have 2 more years to decide 
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For your reply to HillGoose, yeah unfortunately I think most people who aren't involved in the hard sciences or technology will be hit by automation sooner or later but there isn't much you can do about that, not everyone can become a scientist.
Oh and then for your comment about having to become a teacher, that's kind of the whole point of why I went into economics, in order to avoid having to teach
hopefully I'll get into the international business program of one of the schools in my area, then I can do something that would allow me to accomplish my life goals (to a large degree I picked that because I speak a couple of languages and it would allow me the freedom to move around and more or less live where I want, while being able to put food on the table. Hopefully I can do that and hopefully those types of jobs won't be automated as well.
Oh then for the geography part, Groningen is in the North (maybe Frisia (Friesland), or is that Heerenveen?) right? And where's the Dutch Bible Belt? The South of the Netherlands? Outside of the South I've only been once, to Amsterdam but I've been to Maastricht several times (last time about 3 months ago) and I actually quite like the city, is that the area you're trying to avoid?
Then for your reply to my comment, I guess we have quite a bit in common then haha. My original project was to go study law for a year to prepare the ''concours'' (an entrance exam but where you passing or failing depends on your overall ranking rather than your grade, I think there were about 1400 spots for 12000 candidates) for the IEP (Political Studies Institute) but I missed out by a few hundred spots so I went for my plan B, economics.
