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I wouldn't get too excited... the list shows to me that the kids only know about professions they're directly exposed to or repeatedly hear a lot about.

Kinda dumb to ask kids what their ideal profession is when they really only understand about 10 jobs.



>they really only understand about 10 jobs.

This is a pretty poor assumption IMO. This crappy article didn't even bother to list the ages of these "children" (were they 6, or 16?).

Personally, I wanted to be a paleontologist when I was in 2nd grade, but by 6th grade I wanted to be an electrical engineer (which is what I ended up doing in college). I was never really exposed to either of those by anyone I knew, only from reading.


ya good point, it does show what they are hearing though :). But ya, doesn't seem like much to see here.




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