[MasterfulButch]

It made me smile to see this thread as we've currently got an advertising campaign running where a celebrity sits down with all manner of people and asks them what they want to be when they grow up. Most laugh at him initially, particularly the white-haired ones, but then they realise he is quite serious and you see their reaction change. It's left me pondering the question too as well as my assumption that it no longer applied to me.

I feel like like there's a sense of finality to that question, as though you're trying to reach one particular goal and then you're done. It puts a lot of pressure on making sure that goal is the right one and that you're taking a suitably direct route to get there. It also fails to take into account how you may change as you journey through life.

My current thinking is about changing the question rather than trying to answer it. What about if instead of 'what do you want to be when you grow up' we just said 'great, what next'?