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> A subset of participants (N=473,260) answered the question "What kind of job do you expect to have when you are about 30 years old?", which we call "occupatio

• aerostable_slug 5y ago
  > Expectation is aspiration. Not unless you're aiming at something you're 100% certain you can achieve, or delusional. I knew a person in high school who aspired to go to Stanford for her undergraduate education. She didn't succeed, and to be quite honest her expectation of doing so was moored in fantasy, not reality. Any number of kids who want to play professional sports or succeed as entertainers are aspirational without necessarily expecting they'll make it. The ones who do expect that kind of success are often let down and become part of the 90-odd percent of SAG card holders who wait tables, paint houses, and do all kinds of things other than acting to pay the bills — or never even make it to Hollywood. Conversely, someone in a farming family might say that in 30 years they will be farming, which is likely aspiration = expectation.
  • aahortwwy 5y ago
    You made the point more eloquently than I did, thank you. The study is flawed.