Popular Career Choices for Todays Kids

Popular Career Choices for Todays Kids Who remembers playing this game  which  has been around since 1960? The Game of Life involved cars, careers, money and marriage. I can only remember  moving my car around the board and adding the little pink and blue pegs when children were awarded! Popular Career Choices In the Spring of 2014, Hasbro surveyed  400 8-12 year old kids (administered via parents) from  the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Mexico, South Korea, and Australia.  The children were asked what they want to be when they grow up, their favorite traditional job and favorite modern job, what it means to be a grown up, and preferred salary. Video game designer was the overall most popular dream job chosen by kids surveyed around the world Most popular “modern” jobs: Video game designer (14%), scientist (14%), and fashion designer (11%) Most popular “traditional” jobs: Teacher (14%), veterinarian (13%), and doctor or nurse (12%) Least popular job: Garbage collector Fun Facts  INFOGRAPHIC 85% percent of children said they want a different job than their parents Subject children would like to most use in their future job: Computers or Information Technology 77 percent of kids said they wanted to be the boss when they grow up! Hasbro converted the survey results into this infographic. Image credit  HasbroGames.com (You can click the image to see a larger version) Updated  Career Cards Available This is a great example of how to use data to improve a product- the most popular career answers are being incorporated  into the game. Here are the career cards that will be featured in the U.S.: Singer, Secret Agent, Veterinarian, Teacher, Doctor, Professional Athlete, Scientist, Fashion Designer, Lawyer, Inventor, Chef, Race Car Driver, Dancer, Police Officer, Firefighter and kids’ top pick, Video Game Designer. Salary Expectations It seems kids in the U.S. need a bit of a reality check. When surveyed, the United States’ kids say a good annual salary, would be $249, 319, on average. However, the average household income is $39,531 (Average annual salary data for each country comes from the Organization for the Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)). Kids in the United States expect to make the highest salaries out of all kids surveyed (when converted to U.S. Dollars). Overall Reality Check It is good to see some of the newer occupations young children are interested in, but I think weve got a long way to go to provide better career education and sooner. And while were at it, lets also help kids understand the concept of portfolio careers and the decline/death of life-time employment with one employer. I think we need to redefine stability. What do you think?