Let’s Stop Asking Children What They Want to Be When They Grow Up

Steven Hopper
5 min readOct 20, 2019
Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash

Did you know exactly what you wanted to be when you grew up?

Chances are, probably not.

I know I didn’t.

Yet society puts a lot of pressure on the younger generations to have an answer to this question. I know this because I used to be a teacher and I saw how it dictated the focus of learning every day…

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Steven Hopper

Stories of a former high school teacher, now business consultant. Husband. Travel fanatic. Obsessed coffee drinker. And all-around nerd.