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07-27-2016, 11:00 PM
New study investigates: How many adults pursue their childhood dream job?
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Kids are pretty fearless when it comes to dreaming big about their futures. Ask a five year old about his or her career aspirations and chances are you'll be taken aback by the ambitious responses: astronaut, pro football star, bajillionaire, president.*
Some kids want to be all these things at once.
Ask adults, however, if their childhood dreams ever came to fruition and you're likely to get a more wistful response.*
SEE ALSO: San Francisco writing center for kids provides safe, creative space for pint-sized authors (http://mashable.com/2016/07/12/826-valencia/)
**t too many of us actually end up following through with the pie-in-the-sky dreams we envisioned as kids. (Yours truly wanted to be a paleontologist.) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/27/kid-dream-jobs/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Kids are pretty fearless when it comes to dreaming big about their futures. Ask a five year old about his or her career aspirations and chances are you'll be taken aback by the ambitious responses: astronaut, pro football star, bajillionaire, president.*
Some kids want to be all these things at once.
Ask adults, however, if their childhood dreams ever came to fruition and you're likely to get a more wistful response.*
SEE ALSO: San Francisco writing center for kids provides safe, creative space for pint-sized authors (http://mashable.com/2016/07/12/826-valencia/)
**t too many of us actually end up following through with the pie-in-the-sky dreams we envisioned as kids. (Yours truly wanted to be a paleontologist.) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/27/kid-dream-jobs/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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