hmm was thinking of something else when I read the threadsname, but will give my opinion anyhow

Think it would be a good idea to be able to say what your goal is at the moment of creating and give the player a little start in that. As mentioned before you can get PP mining but yu still need to fight first to be able to and think something like this would be a good thing to have true miners or crafters or whatever we are going to have.
As for a goal further ingame I feel thats more done by roleplaying.
Do feeel there should be a line in the quests though that do relate with what you are. Like quests they only ask you for if you have some fame in fighting or some fame in blacksmithing.