Somebody asks
A grown-up asks what you want to be when you grow up. You have no idea.
What can you say?
Life Skills · Discover · Pre-K to Grade 2
Chapter 7: Goals & Work
Jobs are things people do, not things people are.
Jobs are things people do, not things people are.
2 situations to decide. There is often more than one good answer: pick one and see what happens.
Somebody asks
What can you say?
A job you have not seen
What is a good thing to ask?
A job is a thing somebody does. Fixing, teaching, building, driving, growing, helping, making.
People need things. Somebody has to grow the food, drive the bus, fix the pipes, look after people who are sick.
Most jobs are ones you have not seen. You do not have to know yours now.
These ones do have right answers.
Tap a job, then tap what they do.
Match each job to the thing they do.
Tap a card on the left to start.
Question 1 of 1
Do you have to know what job you want now?
Something to do away from the screen. Nobody is checking.
Why: Every job has a boring part. Knowing that early is useful.
Describing what you actually do all day — the ordinary tasks, not the job title — is far more informative to a child than the title, and it is the version they can imagine themselves doing.
"What do you want to be" asks a small child to pick an identity. "What kind of things do you like doing?" gets a better answer and is a better question about work anyway.
Worth including jobs that are not visible to children — the people who maintain water, sort mail, write the software. Most work is invisible from a child’s vantage point.