In my case, in my self-loathing younger days, I answered the question “what do you want to be when you grow up?” with “I want to be a garbage collector.”
Now, I’m collecting garbage, but because I want to apply the boy scout principle: leave the place cleaner than when you arrived.
I wanted to make games as a job.
The wish would be “I want to make videogames.”
I now make games as a hobby/casual side thing alongside a regular job
(looks at state of gamedev industry)
… and it seems I dodged an entire drone strike with that one.