The popularity of shows such as Bourne's, and of TV series like Strictly Come Dancing, have contributed to an unprecedented interest in dance among children; in a recent Mothercare survey, "dancer" ranked third (behind "doctor" and "footballer") in the list of professions aspired to by boys under 12.
Alicia Nash, who studied physics in the 1950s and worked in computer science at a time when few women entered the profession, once aspired to be the next Madame Curie.
Top students aspire to the profession.
Is it any wonder, then, that few college students aspire to the profession?
Adams did not consider illustration as a profession, however, as he aspired to be a paleontologist.
They want a better education and aspire to pursue professions that require a college education.
Behind those bars you watch others live the life you'd dreamt of living, reaching heights in professions you had always aspired to reach, and raising families the way you'd always intended.
New entrants to the profession can aspire no higher than their starting salary.
1.31pm: Gove says he wants teaching to rank alongside medicine or the law as a profession for aspiring graduates.
"I think people in this profession, they aspire someday to be a head coach," Bradley, 52, said in a telephone interview.
And yet as the wall dividing Broadway and Off Broadway becomes ever less porous, and the audience for theater becomes as atomized as the audience for other forms of culture has become, the risk grows that writing for the theater will cease entirely to be a viable profession for aspiring artists.
