WHat Careers other than steamboat pilot did the boys in the hannibal consider life on Mississippi

The other careers other than steamboat pilot that boys in the Hannibal consider life on the Mississippi are pirates. Being a steamboat man was one of the permanent ambition of boys in Hannibal which upon the arrival of the steamboat brought excitement and awakening among people of Hannibal which previously was a dead town. Apart from being steamboat pilots, boys considered other jobs such as printer apprentice which is shown by Mark Twain who took a job at Joseph Ament who published the Missouri Courier.