You've got to think of your future, you're 7 years old!

[boxofslice]

Career advice for seven-year-olds

Good thing? Bad thing? New Labour thing?

What did you want to be when you were 7 and what do you do now? How do they compare?

When I was 7 apart from wanting to be a member of the A-Team and building spaceships in my back garden, I wanted to be a policeman. I now work in insurance.

[purlieu]

From a young age I wanted to be a magazine editor... hmm.
Or a train driver.

My actual job experience so far is retail management and office temping.  Doesn't seem to be going in quite the right direction...

[ThickAndCreamy]

Is there any point in future education if it's going to be like this? You won't actually learn anything other than rationality and how to benefit the economy the most in the future.

My secondary schooling experience made me realise just how little you actually learn even if you get all A*s. You can probably do it without even truly thinking in a few years time, just reiterating what teachers have told you over and over again.

Anyway, at 7 I didn't know what I wanted to be as I was 7. Maybe a footballer, although I did have quite the urge to become a lunatic.

[Danger Man]

7 - psychiatrist

now - equine nose-stroker

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

At 7 I definitely wanted to be a formula 1 driver. I think that hasn't happened because my parents thought 'hmm 7, bit late really, if he'd asked us two years ago he might have stood a chance'.