One of the most common questions that children are asked in their formative years in school is what do they want to become when they grow up. While job profiles like doctor, teacher, astronaut and scientist manage to make the cut almost every time, one would rarely expect a child to say 'journalist'. A New York Times reporter Liam Stack took to Twitter to post about his cousin's 11-year-old daughter, who is apparently a devout reader of The Washington Post ever since she downloaded its app two years ago. Which explains why she was the only one in her class to have the most specific answer to the question when she said she wanted to be a journalist with WP when she grows up. "Today I learned that my cousin’s 11 year old daughter somehow downloaded The Washington Post app — without my cousin’s knowledge — at the age of 9 and has been a loyal reader for the last two years," Stack had tweeted. "When people ask what she wants to be when she grows up, my cousin said her 11 year daughter tells them she wants to study journalism and work for The Washington Post. It is apparently the most specific answer in her class," he tweeted further. Today I learned that my cousin’s 11 year old daughter somehow downloaded The Washington Post app — without my cousin’s knowledge — at the age of 9 and has been a loyal reader for the last two years. — Liam Stack (@liamstack) January 11, 2018 When people ask what she wants to be when she grows up, my cousin said her 11 year daughter tells them she wants to study journalism and work for The Washington Post. It is apparently the most specific answer in her class. — Liam Stack (@liamstack) January 11, 2018 While his tweet went viral, it garnered even more attention when WP's Twitter team responded to his post, offering the kid to spend a day at the newspaper office, with a jar of peanut M&MS in Marty Baron's office as incentive. Please tell her that she has an open invite to spend a day with us. (And that @PostBaron keeps a jar of peanut M&MS in his office.) We're all very excited to work for her someday. — Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 11, 2018 The Twitter exchange about the little girl's drive and vision, inevitably, got many people talking. That kid is going places. — Gabriel Cruz (@bastiongray) January 11, 2018 Wonder what she reads most? I knew at 11 I wanted to be a newspaper reporter, too. But I was just reading Dear Abby and the comics. — Mara Lee (@MaraRhymesSarah) January 11, 2018 Now I need to tweet about my 11-year-old cousin whose one dream is for her cousin to have a Porsche — Farhad Manjoo: immigrant from shithole continent (@fmanjoo) January 11, 2018 As someone who visited the (old) WaPo newsroom as a kid, please tell her that some dreams do come true. — Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) January 11, 2018
