One more year, there are few novelties that we find when asking the smallest of the house what they want to be tomorrow. Boys and girls, with some marked differences between them, continue to want to pursue the same professions as the young people surveyed 15 years ago, around 2004.
The XVII Adecco Survey What do you want to be when you grow up? 2019. Other professions chosen by children are: teachers (12.1%), musicians (6.1%), CEOs and scientists (3% each); while the girls of the Community of Madrid want to be veterinarians (profession chosen by 11.5%), unlike in 2019 where 19.9% ??chose to be teachers. Other career choices this 2023 by the girls were: doctors, police officers, teachers (7.7% each) and architects (3.8%).
For them, the best possible boss would be their own mother (21.2%) or father (12.1%). Next, the children from Madrid choose to have their brother/sister or their teacher as their boss (6.1% each). They would also prefer to put themselves under the orders of the great scientist Albert Einstein, the actor Brad Pitt or the Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo (with 3% of the votes each).
They also prefer someone close to them as their first option to put themselves under their orders, in this case their teacher (15.4%). In second, third and fourth place, they want to work for the singer Aitana, the soccer player Alexia Putellas or their own mother (7.7% each). Also appearing as possible bosses with 3.8% of the votes each: a friend, and the international singers Ariana Grande and Beyoncé.
Although 13.6% do not know what to answer, for 11.9% of the survey participants the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the most important news of the year. At a great distance (all with 5.1%), the victory of Real Madrid in the Copa del Rey, the announcement of the end of the masks, and the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria that occurred in February also deserve a prominent section in the awareness of the little ones of Madrid.
The general trait that best defines a good worker according to children from Madrid is the attitude they have towards work (30.5%), followed by their personality (24.3%) and their abilities (12, 4%). Teamwork (8.5%) and having good training (7.3%) are also important.
Young people from Madrid have been asked what product they would sell if they opened their own company. Boys choose to sell food (9.1%), followed by soccer balls and a car sales business (6.1% each). The girls, on the other hand, would first set up a store to sell clothes (15.4%), medicines (11.5%), ice creams (7.7%), and firearms (3.8%).
Both sexes choose traveling as the best plan for their retirement years, as voted by 12.1% of men and 34.6% of women. But from here on, the order of your priorities changes slightly. They want to watch TV and be in the armchair (12.1% and 9.1% respectively) and they want to take care of the grandchildren and spend time with the family (7.7% each).
Three years after the rise of teleworking, 66.1% of Madrid boys and girls define it as the option of working from home. 11.9% believe that it is working outside the office and 10.2% say they do not know what it is. “Having a TV at work”, “working online”, “having more than one job”, “when you don’t finish your work and take it home”, “call with the computer and you can see yourself”, “work all the day…”, have been other explanations for this type of work.
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