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What did you want to be when you grew up? Did you always know? Can you actually remember?

If you can, did you follow your dream or did things change along the way? Maybe you had no idea what path you wanted to follow when you finished at school or college.

Here, BBC Radio Stoke’s Mick Tucker takes a look at how a high number of young people in Stoke-on-Trent are dropping out of education early and not going on to do anything else. They're not working and not going into any other form of education or training.

Some of these young people say this is because they feel they've taken the wrong courses when they're over sixteen, or even completely the wrong option by carrying on in education…