The most common thing I wanted to be as a kid was a storm chaser/meteorologist. My fascination with weather (especially tornadoes) started at a very young age. I had these VHS tapes of tornado footage I would watch over-and-over and I would just marvel at them. Anytime we had a severe weather event locally I would be glued to my television. I even had a scanner I would listen to local weather spotters communicate with the national weather service with. I watched The Weather Channel more than I watched cartoons. It was a bit of an obsession!