Not a single aspiring astronaut: What teens want to be when they grow up
You may have wanted to be an astronaut or fireman when you grew up, but most children today have their sights set on business management and professional jobs.
Anna Patty is Workplace Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald. She is a former Education Editor, State Political Reporter and Health Reporter. Her reports on inequity in schools funding led to the Gonski reforms and won her national awards. Her coverage of health exposed unnecessary patient deaths at Campbelltown Hospital and led to judicial and parliamentary inquiries. At The Times of London, she exposed flaws in international medical trials.
You may have wanted to be an astronaut or fireman when you grew up, but most children today have their sights set on business management and professional jobs.
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