New study investigates: How many adults pursue their childhood dream job?
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.*
**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...