back to article It's official: Brit parents want their kids to be just like Steve Bong

Steve Bong is a role model for British parents, who – according to a back-of-the-beermat poll – think a career as a tech entrepreneur would be much more beneficial to their offspring than becoming a vet or a banker, or joining the police. A survey of 2,000 mums and dads with kids under the age of 18, which was commissioned by …

  1. Amorous Cowherder
    WTF?

    Who the heck is Steve Bong? I never heard of him before!

    I assume this is someone famous from TV? I've no time for broadcast TV these days, especially if the stars are called Bong!

    1. Yet Another Anonymous coward Silver badge

      Re: Who the heck is Steve Bong? I never heard of him before!

      Steve Bong (official title: Lord Bong of #businessmodel) is the founder of Bong Ventures, an early stage investor and incubator focussing on innovative new technology start-ups based in Shoreditch, London. When he's not helping rear the next generation of business models, Steve enjoys parties, foreign travel, extreme cuisine, Open Data and draws his inspiration from Ayn Rand and His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.

    2. dotdavid

      Re: Who the heck is Steve Bong? I never heard of him before!

      He's some hipster; you probably won't have heard of him.

    3. Anonymous Blowhard

      Re: Who the heck is Steve Bong? I never heard of him before!

      If only there were an easy way to find out information like this; perhaps some kind of machine that could find things on the Internet? Eureka; I've invented the Find Machine! Call Steve Bong!

      1. Yet Another Anonymous coward Silver badge

        Re: Who the heck is Steve Bong? I never heard of him before!

        Quick - to the community catalyst catapult

    4. Doctor Syntax Silver badge

      Re: Who the heck is Steve Bong? I never heard of him before!

      Why the down-votes? This has got to be comment of the week.

  2. John Styles

    The parents just hope that by having their children being tech entrepreneurs will mean their children will be able to save them from the brutal yoke of our coming robot overlords. No dice - it will be down the Uranium mines for you just like everyone else.

  3. Pete 2 Silver badge

    Too early to say

    > jobs as doctors, engineers and lawyers all scored higher than tech entrepreneur

    The key is to build options into your career path. Although the listed jobs sound very aspirational (except lawyer: obv. We know a joke about having a lawyer in the family, don't we?), it's equally true that life is what happens while you're busy making plans.

    As it turned out, my first job after university didn't even exist when I started. But because I had a good grounding in tech, computing & electronics I was a natural choice. So ISTM the secret to starting life with an exciting, interesting if not well-paid (this is the technology sector) job isn't to aim for one specific job description, but to have flexibility (and a driving licence) and not get bogged down aiming at one solitary specialism.

  4. Oninoshiko

    incoherent and annoying?

    Aren't most kids that already?

    1. Captain DaFt

      Re: incoherent and annoying?

      Most adults as well.

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