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Cake shop worker remains dream job for many children starting school
- dentemple 3y agoAlso a dream job for many software engineers.
- candiddevmike 3y agoI've never seen a kanban board in a bakery
- perrick 3y agoBe very careful with what you'd wish for : kanbans in a bakery are actually a thing. And such a bakery can be very successfull ;-) https://www.lean.org/store/book/the-lean-bakery/ https://www.lean.org/store/book/the-lean-bakery/
- marcosdumay 3y agoJust to point out, but the manufacturing line kanbans are about the reverse of the software development kanbans, and the kinds of pressure they apply are also completely different. They share the same fundamental inspiration. It's just that the work is very different.
- klyrs 3y agoIt makes sense. When kids see cake, they get to eat cake. Except when they go to the cake shop. There, they see many cakes that they cannot eat. But the employees of the shop hold the apparent power over who does and does not receive cake.
- pnathan 3y agoYes. I wanted to be a UPS driver as a little boy. Because I loved getting packages. Being a cake shop worker seems entirely aligned with five year old me. I just had never been to a cake shop at that time. :)
- MisterBastahrd 3y agoWhen I was 8, I told my mom I wanted to be a garbage man because I figured they got off really early to play since they were up so early to throw away trash, and they were providing a societal benefit that didn't require schooling (My teacher, Mrs. Morgan, was a complete asshole). My 11 year old nephew wants to go to the Navy to cook because he loves cooking and once saw a show about the mess halls there. Kids have kid dreams.
- Keegs 3y agoYour younger self was right about sanitation workers. In my city it also pays well.
- l_j_w 3y agoI can't remember if it was a comedian or just some other person I'd seen a quote from; but they basically joked about how teacher's always said to pay attention and do well in school, or you would grow up to be a garbageman, but the teacher failed to tell you that garbagemen earned more than the teacher did.
- debacle 3y agoI knew a Navy cook. He told me a story about how he'd get sick when the food was good because he'd gorge himself on e.g. an entire tray of chocolate pudding that was about to go bad. Not a bad gig.
- IncreasePosts 3y agoDid anyone else not have a dream job when they grew up? I would give an answer when pressured, usually something with a fun name like anesthesiologist, but that was just to placate the adults.
- lapetitejort 3y agoI still have a dream job that is completely outside my current career. It's far less grand than the dream jobs that I had as a kid, and pays less.
- atomicnumber3 3y agoYeah, I wanted to be a "nuclear physicist" because I thought explosions were cool, and obviously nuclear explosions were the biggest kind. So obviously a nuclear physicist will be researching how to be able to make even bigger explosions! Obviously as I grew up, knowing that a) ostensibly the point of being able to make those explosions is to ensure they don't actually happen and b) knowing what we'd use that deterrence power for really took the wind out of my sails. Plus somehow it pays less than software, which I actually had more of a passion for than explosions (though I still respect a good explosion to this day). So yeah. Kids will give pretty arbitrary answers to this question even if they think they do have one.
- silverquiet 3y agoIf I'd have said the truth, it would be that I didn't dream of labor (I wasn't the happiest or most agreeable of children). I probably just said firefighter because that's a pretty basic "what to be when you grow up" type job, but also my father was one.
- washadjeffmad 3y agoNinja cop.
- koolba 3y agoIs that a crime fighting unit that polices the activity of ninjas? Or, a police officer targeting generic crime but leveraging the elite skills of a ninja?
- at1787 3y agoInteresting. I've read somewhere else for western/north american youth it was being an influencer?
- bhaney 3y agoHopefully that stat is for kids who are at least a bit older than these
- karaterobot 3y ago> However, the allure of being a "YouTuber," which had been steadily gaining traction in recent years, saw a decline, slipping from ninth place in last year’s survey to the 14th spot. That's very nice, I hope it stays so as they age.
- renewiltord 3y agoYouTuber is just “movie star” or fame adjusted for era. I bet interest in that has been roughly constant over time.
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- bena 3y agoA fair number of people I grew up with wanted to be some sort of celebrity. Either an athlete or some sort of performance art. "YouTuber" is just another specific type of celebrity to them.
- two_handfuls 3y agoAnd they’re not wrong. One thing that’s cool is there is more variety there, like celebrity playing video games, celebrity doing science, celebrity making cool stories using video game tools, etc.
- api 3y agoIt’s no different from kids in the 80s and 90s wanting to be rock stars or basketball players. Kids often have impractical career ideas based on what they see in pop culture until they are old enough to know themselves and the world more.
- andrewxdiamond 3y ago“YouTuber” is another way of saying “small business owner” and regardless of your perspective on the platforms in general, they have cause an explosion of independent businesses
- ametrau 3y agoThat’s very sweet.
- phatfish 3y agoA solid choice. Far more fulfilling than navigating the nonsense of an average tech job.
- hnthrowaway0328 3y agoIndeed. The pay is shitty though. Probably more suitable for kids from rich families who do not want to follow their parents.
- lee-rhapsody 3y agoWhen I was a kid, I wanted to be a writer. I am now a writer. Granted, I detoured into software development, but overall I'm surprised at how consistent my interests have been throughout my life.
- baron816 3y agoWho here became what they wanted to be when they were <18?
- throwup238 3y agoI wanted to grow up and become an adult. Be careful what you wish for.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoPlenty of people have grown up yet aren't really functional adults, or at least not independent. Wishing is still great, especially when you can try a lot of them without committing your entire life or career path.
- doubled112 3y agoCarpenter as a small child. Found programming around 10 or 12 but I realized I found it boring at about 15. Decided I wanted to run big servers and networks about then. Still administering systems at 32. I think I wanted to build things from birth.
- brailsafe 3y agoI picked up on web development and started doing it freelance by 17 or something, but ironically was getting more work then than I am now at 32, and someone looking at my spotty resume would think I'm a lunatic for not finding something else. Problem with obsessions is they tend to be hard to pivot from.
- spydum 3y agoI have a middle school career aspirations sheet from the mid 90s, where I said I wanted to be a software developer at a particular place (now out of business). I came really close, ended up doing software dev in the same industry by 22, but moved on long since.
- throwitaway222 3y agoWell, I am not a veterinarian or a ski instructor so I failed.
- abeppu 3y agoThis is in the Japan Times and Kuraray, the company doing the surveying is a Japanese company. The article doesn't mention whether the 4000 children surveyed were all entering schools in Japan -- but I wonder how much these results would vary by country.
- StefanBatory 3y agoI'm feeling extremely lucky I knew since I was a kid I wanted to be a programmer. One good thing games did for me.
- randysalami 3y agoSame here, ever since I was 12. Still not disillusioned by the field having graduated college two years despite all the doomsaying. I feel like a wizard!
- tomashubelbauer 3y agoFor me it was realizing what autorun.inf is for, from that realizing some programs load texts and images off the same CD they came with and I can change those and change the program that way, then I discovered a few programs built around displaying unbundled HTML files and that I could change those in Notepad leading to the discovery of HTML and later JavaScript and by that point I was too far gone. So not exactly games, but these CDs and programs I was messing with were shareware CDs and their launchers so still kind of a +1 for games.
- dpkirchner 3y agoHexediting games to bypass or neutralize copy protection helped me become a programmer (on top of copying code from magazines and books onto a Timex Sinclair and ZX81). I remember the first game: BattleTech Crescent Hawk Inception. IIRC the copy protection involved typing words from pages in the manual, and I "defeated" it by changing every word to the same string. I actually owned the game, I just didn't want to get out the paper every time I wanted to play.
- neilv 3y agoProbably not the same kind of cake shop, but I know a software engineer who used to run a successful upscale US cake-decorating shop. He's very no-nonsense, in a non-jerky way, and had a good intuition for noticing problems in company operations. After he left, I was discussing hiring plans with management, and I remarked that we probably aren't going to be able to hire someone as good. Maybe managing a bunch of artists who get to design&build exotic cakes for a living, to be a successful business, is a transferable skill.