Research from fish4jobs (www.fish4jobs.co.uk) can confirm that despite most Brits not working in their dream job (86%), we are actually quite content with our lot. Most of those interviewed said that they wouldn’t retrain to get their dream job (57%).
The survey asked people what their dream jobs were when they were growing up. 22% wanted to become famous (actor / singer / TV Presenter), 24% wanted to be professional sports people and intriguingly only 10% wanted to work in the police force, which must be bucking the trend from previous generations when it was considered one of the best professions. Some slightly wacky dream jobs included a fighter pilot (1%), scientist (6%) and astronaut (6%). None of our respondents wanted to work in an office when they were growing up and teaching did not seem to inspire us either.
Out of those surveyed, 25% studied further to improve their chances of landing their dream job, with 4% still in training and 3% having given up the dream despite training for it. Strangely 9% said they never had a dream job whilst growing up!
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