Elementary Schooler or architect:

While the average nine year old was playing Disney computer games or having a crack at the classic Minesweeper, I was designing and decorating floor plans and virtual homes on actual architecture and design software that my brother and I would convince our dad to  buy us because we treated them like video games.

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            “Look at this floor plan,” either one of us would tell the other. “I added a sectional to my living room.”

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            “Well my house has two fridges,” The other would respond.

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            These professional home design and architecture programs our dad would buy us influenced me as a child because for a rather long time the only thing I wanted to be when I grew up was an Architect, and a professional organizer (an interior designer for hoarders). The coolest thing about having our dad but us those software disks was actually going to Circuit City, Radio Shack, or Best Buy and spending hours reading each one and looking at the pictures with my brother, debating about whether or not this or that particular program could meet our needs. If only Radio Shack and Circuit City were still in business.