As anyone who reads this will know, youngsters have big ideas for their future. This isn’t to say that actualizing childhood fantasies is impossible, it’s just the roles we idealised have a lot more depth and nuance to them. In a way this is a list of the careers most romanticised by us all, the ones that seem the most impressive when said out loud and given that it’s National Careers Week 2019, we think this is a good time to chew the fat… Astronaut Devouring freeze dried ice cream and watching the sunrise over the Sea of Japan, the Idea of being an astronaut is a simultaneously novel and cinematic perfection. Exploring the unknown and earning close to a hundred grand a year doesn’t sound too bad either. This one is one of the hardest jobs to get on planet earth and you need both a degree and preferably a military background. The candidate success rate is often around 1000 to 1. Don’t let that stop you reaching for the stars, though, kids. Athlete What with kids being exposed to sports the minute they can walk it soon becomes very clear if a child has an aptitude for it. ...

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