If you don't want to be an accountant....

This is taken from a recent piece in the Times Diary: 

Stephen Fry tells a story about the careers master at his school who asked the boys what they wanted to be and then wrote that down as his recommendation for them.

If they didn't know what they wanted to be, apparently the careers master put down 'accountant'.

Back then Fry didn't know what he wanted to be but clearly didn't want to be advised to become an accountant. So, when it was his turn he said his ambition was to be a careers master.

The master instead put him down as 'comedian'.