HOW MANY people can honestly say that the job they have today is the one they dreamt about doing as a child?

Who can say they didn't gaze out of the classroom window and see themselves as Prime Minister, a Hollywood heart-throb or the scientist who cured cancer?

With just one leap of the imagination, you were king of the boardroom, with a business empire to rival Richard Branson's; you could send a stadium into a frenzy when you bent it like Beckham; or you were being hailed across the globe as the new Jimi Hendrix.

Reporter TAMASH LAL talked to children in Year Six at Swindon's Lawn Junior School in Windsor Road and found that they seem to have their feet much more firmly on the ground than most.

There were a few aspiring actors and actresses and even a budding ghostbuster. Most had obviously thought about their future careers carefully, and all had a clear idea of what they wanted to do with their lives after leaving school. Many of the 10 and 11-year-olds wanted to work with animals, and a lot said they wanted to help people in one way or another.

It was a surprise to find that given the emphasis placed on technology in schools, only one wanted to work with computers, and there wasn't a future England football captain among the group.

No doubt that many of the youngsters will look back at this article in years to come and say "Did I really want to do that?"

Others, will go on to achieve their childhood dreams and good luck to them.