Childhood Dream Job
Aug 25, 2011
Sports Statistician.
Yep. That was Mason’s first dream job. Paste Magazine recently highlighted 50 Musicians and Their Childhood Dream Jobs, including Mason, and here’s why he wanted that job:
I thought it’d be the sweetest thing imaginable to be a football or baseball statistician. To be at all the games. To make sense and order out of the beautiful games. I used to read the stats religiously. At night I would organize the football divisions in my head to relax. Then one day at school they asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up and I said: “statistician.” It got quieter and more pointy in the room than dead dust and I heard the sound of my coolness drowning in a familiar little teeny nerd pond. My dream was crushed. And from the muck another dream grew.
Age when he wanted to be that profession: Eight years old.
Check out the original article and read up about the childhood dream jobs of other great musicians HERE.