When I was 14-years-old, a Careers Advisor visited our high school to offer students guidance in regard to their future employment prospects. We were asked to write down our preferred career choices. I penned 'artist' and 'singer' (which seemed perfectly fair to me since my father had studied art/philosophy back in Holland and my mother was a trained singer), only to be told that they were not plausible options - since they did not appear in the hefty government-supplied 'careers' manual which the advisor referred to as her own guide. I left class that day feeling despondent and unsupported.