What is the new socially aspirational career?

Five years or so ago it was all so simple.

We had moved on from the doctor and lawyer aspirations that our parents had for us as children to lionize careers in banking and finance, but now bankers and financiers are lying gasping on the floor and the coroner is on the way.Photo by carveconsulting from Flickr licensed under Creative Commons

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This post was written by @Drivelry on June 4, 2009

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Preschooler amnesia and parental memory mismatch

Ongoing exposure to preschoolers is a bit like unexpected exposure to Alzheimers. The expectation for a lot of adults is that somehow the preschoolers will remember this period of their life.

But will they?

Probably not. Ask anyone you know whether they remember when they were 3 or 4.  

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This post was written by @Drivelry on September 2, 2008

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