Probably an astronaut, then. At least, that's how the version I knew ended up being a thousand years old.

[There's a joke there about how Vance is always the old man in his friends groups, but probably not the right time for it.]

That's actually why he looked me up when he was on Earth at the right time. To stop me from following that same path. Instead of being an astronaut, I ended up a superhero.