What jobs do Taiwanese children want the most when they grow up? According to a survey released ahead of today, Children’s Day, they want to be singers and actors.
The survey, conducted by the Chinese-language Mandarin Daily News, found that doctors were the second-most popular profession among children, followed by computer engineers.
Meanwhile, the three most unpopular professions were morticians, explosion stuntmen and farmers. Also on the unpopular job list was president, which took fifth place. Many respondents said that becoming president would make them an easy target of public protests and that the job was too stressful and tiresome, even though it offered high pay.
The survey was conducted last month among 1,588 fifth and sixth-graders from 48 schools across the country. It had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.46 percent.
Feng Yen (馮燕), a professor at National Taiwan University’s Department of Social Work, said that the high attractiveness of show business to the younger generation demonstrated that children are affected more by media and social influences than by their families or schools.
“They see only the pompous appearances, but fail to see the hard work behind it,” Feng said.
She advised parents not to allow their children to spend too much time watching TV or using the Internet to keep the media from taking their place in raising their children.
Feng also expressed concern over results suggesting that children prefer jobs that offer high pay and little work.
She said that if high-tech professionals, entrepreneurs and business owners were among the options provided in the survey, many children probably would have chosen them.
The study found obvious gender differences in choice of profession.
Among boys, the top five professions were computer engineers, baseball players, athletes, policemen and doctors.
The top five among girls were singers or actresses, fashion designers, teachers, beauticians and pastry chefs.
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