Over paella last night (turkey burgers for Nic) we were discussing career plans. Actually, they happened obliquely via Nic's favorite movie du jour, Ratatouille:
Nic: Anton Ego wanted to be a food critic when he grew up. I think I want to do that, too.
Me: (laughing) You need to LIKE to try food to do that job, Nic. Like Gabriel.
Gabriel: (brightening up). *I* can be a food critic!
Nic: Linguini was a garbage boy, then he was a cook...
Me: (correcting) Linguini was NEVER a cook--Remy was.
Gabriel: Yeah, Remy was Linguini's puppet master.....
Me: But Linguini had to figure out what was good at....
Nic: And he was good at waiting tables! And Anton Ego then became a small business investor....
Me: You have no idea what that means
Nic and Gabe laugh
Me: It means he owned the restaurant...
Nic: and Colette and Remy were good enough to be his cooks, and Linguini could work as his waiter...
Me: They all found out what they were good at....
Nic: And they all opened their own restaurant!
Now this is cool. We're not only having some pretty cool conversations about what they are seeing and observing, but how they can apply what they learn to what they are doing and where they are going. Nic is already thinking possible summer jobs (camp counselor at the camp where they swim, life guard certificate) for when he gets older, and he's seriously thinking about what he wants to do when he grows up.
Not saying he knows, but he's paying closer attention to what people do to earn money, to pay their ways, and thinking about how he wants to do these things.....
He's farther ahead in these things than some adults I know....
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