My mum told me that she was a brain surgeon and obviously I was adamant that she really was when asked by teachers and school friends (although in reality she was a house wife).
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- I believed that our teachers lived at school. They were teachers--they had no reason to leave :)(Anon
- when i first started school i thought the teachers lived in the school and slept on the tables.— emma
- i used to believe that if i wasn,t at school the teachers would expell me from that school!!— sciver
- I used to believe that my school teachers lived inside the school and my school bus driver lived on the bus. Anon
- i used to believe that all the teachers lived at schoolAnon
- i used to believe that teachers lived in school — alicia