This is very important. As a kid, when I was first asked this question I had no clue what I wanted to do. I couldn't say "I don't know" so I just made stuff up. Then answers I gave them were used to mold my learning pathways in school. Pathways that I had absolutely no interest in. I still made the most out of it though :)
@papa-pepper, what career did you think you were going to pursue when you were younger?
I had no clue, so I opted for not going to college to invest in a ?
In a what?
?
A "?" - the unknown, a mystery, that kind of thing.