Do You Love Your Work and Like to Help Young People?

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - March 23, 2013 - PRLog -- We are conducting interviews with people who love their work to help young people choose a career or college major. If you love your work, we'd like to talk to you. You will receive a profile with a photo and logo and link to your website in exchange for your participation in this project.

The What should I Be Project along with its other resources, is dedicated to me, to you, your children, and everyone who has or will have ever asked the question “What Should I Be (when I grow up).” Those of us who miss the opportunity to
answer this question “early in our lives,” often miss the opportunity altogether and therefore may lose their one chance at living and experiencing life to its fullest.

So, when should we actually begin thinking about this question? I believe we should begin at least pondering this, and other related questions, as early as about 8 or 10 years of age.

At this age our minds are much freer to think and explore simple questions like “what would I like to do today.” Because, as adults,  every question we ask ourselves comes with “baggage” (concerns) that seem to constantly get in the way. For example, when an adult asks a question, even as simple as “what would I like to do today,” we often tend to follow up with additional “baggage” concerns like “how much is this going to cost” or “do I really have the time for this” or “is it too hot or cold outside” or “how long will this take since I have to get to bed early” or any others that we (as adults) can think of.

Therefore, it would be best to begin asking ourselves these types of questions when we’re still very young and our “baggage” is at a minimal level. At only 8 or 10 years old, the type of questions we can begin asking ourselves might include “what do we like to do more than anything else,” or “what things are we good at,” or “what type of things do we have a natural curiosity about,” and/or “what is it that makes us truly happy.”

Regardless of how immature the answers may seem (to an adult), we need to pay very close attention to them and find a way to hold onto them, keep them in our hearts and prepare to incorporate them into our lives as we get older. Then, during the years of about 10 to 14, it is important for us to begin the actual quest of identifying and understanding all of the things that are truly important to us, what things make us happy, what interests us, etc., leading us eventually to realize our desired purpose in life.

I realize that many of you may be saying that this is too early in someone’s life to worry or even think about such things and this period of life is simply a time to “be” young. You’re right, in many respects. But, while being young and virtually free of life’s preoccupations, it is also the perfect time to pay attention and nurture those “childish” thoughts, dreams and wishes as they are being formed and developed so they can eventually be incorporated into our life’s future. I’m simply recommending that during these early years, we should pay very close attention to all of our wishes, fantasies, thoughts and dreams..

If we pay attention and listen closely to what makes us happy during these early years, including things that we find fascinating, exciting, compelling, etc., we will have a better chance at identifying a path and purpose for our lives that will provide a tremendous sense of worth and joy.

If you are a person who has found that purpose in life and your work and you'd like to educate young people about your work, please sign up for an interview at: WhatShouldIBe.me and note that you were referred by Julia Widdop.