Matthew Guay

Age 3: Wanted to be a trash collector

Age 14: Wanted to be a Civil Engineer after winning a bridge design contest

Age 17: No, Aeronautical Engineer it will be.

Age 18: Perhaps let's just go for General Engineering and then choose the specality next year.

Age 19: Takes a business writing class. Starts a blog. Gets first paid job writing. Switches to an IT major.

Age 21: Hey, tech writing can be a full-time job.

Age 25: Tech writing can lead to more than just writing.

Now: I'm doing marketing for Zapier, from Thailand, helping people discover great apps and ways to put them to use.

Future: Perhaps a published writer with books in honest-to-goodness brick-and-mortar book stores? One can dream, at least.