August 2013

Alexander doesn’t know what he wants to do for a living. Give him a break, he’s only 12. He’s a pragmatic 12 year old who recognizes that he would only change his mind a million times so he’ll just make a decision later on and skip the whole mind changing part of things.

Here are the things he absolutely does not want to do for a living:

• Be a doctor. Blood is just not interesting to him.
• Sit at a desk and look at papers
• Be an accountant
• Work in agriculture. Since the only ag workers we’ve ever seen are busy picking strawberries he’s pretty sure that you make about $3 a day in agriculture
• Train dogs, cats, bears or other animals
• Practice law
• Own a retail store
• Work with his father. He’s convinced that by the time he’s ready for a job television will cease to exist

Here are some jobs he might entertain when he’s older:

• Work in advertising, but not TV because it probably won’t exist when he’s ready for a job. Whatever it is that replaces the internet is where he’d like to work
• Writing, but he’s not sure what he’d write
• Teaching
• Sportscasting (does that even require an explanation?)
• He’d like to own a chain of stores or restaurants but not just one. We then discussed the need for an MBA (I like this career path… my old age home will be fancy)
• He’d work at a car company in some capacity but not Ferrari, someplace that sells real cars for real people
• Engineering or energy (none of us know enough about that to guide him at all)