Coming This Fall: ‘Super Plumber’?

Many children find role models while watching TV--but the availability of jobs as ghostbusters and vampire hunters may be limited.

A Florida State University study says most television programs give children a false impression of the working world.

The study found that TV portrays too few people working and even fewer being rewarded for it. It also found that the jobs depicted do not represent the occupational makeup of the real world.

Overall, 58% of the characters either were not portrayed in any occupations or had unrealistic occupations, such as vampire hunter and ghostbuster.

Even fewer television characters received reward for work--less than 13% of characters on prime-time network TV, for example.