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I have to admit that I talk to my kids about careers a lot. I didn't get a lot of that from my parents and when I graduated from highschool I had no clue what I wanted to be.
With my kids, I start the talking early - like around five years old. I get them to consider various points like:
- what they think they would like to do
- how much money they want to make (do you want to live like we live now, or do you want to be in an apartment, or in a big fancy house?) and what type of a wage they can expect from various jobs
- how likely it is to get that type of work
- whether they'd have to move away from our community for that type of work
That being said, my kids want to be:
dd1: a social worker or a carpenter
dd2: a social worker or a fashion designer
dd3: a giraffe or a dinosaur
BTW - I'm a social worker. I have not necessarily encouraged my kids to follow in my footsteps, other than having talked about work in front of them.
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