Three times in the last three weeks, I have asked this question: “So, how did you decide to go into this line of work?” All three times, I got essentially the same answer. “I spent time with someone who was doing it and I realized right then that it was what I wanted to do with my life.” All three stuck to the plan for all the years it took to get there.
What better career planning and motivation could there be than giving a young person a short exposure to something that has attracted their attention? The drive of a student with an inner desire in unmatchable. I am suggesting that each of us dedicate an hour or two of summer into either taking a young person to a job shadow or planning a process that would involve all our future students in such an experience.
