When I was younger I really wanted to be the person who came up with the Wheel of Fortune puzzles. I would sit and think of them. I was really good at the Before&After category. It would have been my dream job, but like most kiddie "dream" jobs, I had absolutely no idea how to make that happen. To be perfectly honest, I still don't know how to get that job.
I was thinking about this the other day when I read an article on Yahoo saying that there are manufacturing jobs in the Midwest paying almost $100,000 and they can't get people interested in them. WHAT? Where was I at on career day when they reviewed this one. It must have been the same day they taught about Ice Cream Tester, Soda Maker, and Sleep Study Subject.
I think we need to revamp career day and make it about the jobs that we really dream about having once we grow up. Yes, some of us will still want to be fire fighting, rock star, superhero doctors (or something that you need a post-graduate degree for), but many of us would be quite happy with a high school diploma and $100,000 a year.
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