#2 Uncovering Your Child’s Passions to Unlock Their Dream Job

How to lean what your child is passionate about and how that can translate into their future dream job.

Learn more about Chelsea at www.chelsea-whitaker.com and you can check out her online, on-demand course, The Parent’s Guide to Discovering Your Child’s Dream Job at: https://chelsea-whitaker.teachable.com/p/discovering-your-childs-dream-job/

Chelsea:

Hey guys, it's Chelsea with my sister, Nicole, a lawyer and successful business owner. Today we're talking about uncovering your child's passion to unlock their dream job.

Nicole:

Chelsea, why is this so important, uncovering your child's interests and passions to help narrow down some of their potential dream jobs?

Chelsea:

I love what I do personally every day, and I want that for your child. I remember her saying "if you love your job, you never have to work a day in your life" and that is so true with what I do.

Nicole:

You are the lead occupational therapist at the nonprofit, taking the lead at Timberbrook farm, where you do animal assisted occupational therapy with dogs and horses. it makes sense for you cause you love animals. I'm a lawyer and a business owner, and I love my job. My brother is a Marine engineer and that really fits within his interests and passions; and it's so important because we spend so much of our waking lives at work. The average American spends over 90,000 hours at work in their lifetime. So it's so critical that you help your child find what they love to do, or at least the industry they know that they want to be in so they can find the role that fits them within that industry. In fact, this is one of the first things (is the very first thing) that you go over and work through in your course, the parent's guide to discovering your child's dream job, which is an online on demand course that parents can work through on the platform, teachable.com. Let's talk about how parents can identify their child's interests and passions, and kind of take a look at the paths that me and you and TJ have taken to get to our dream jobs. So, what are some things that parents should be doing to help their kids start identifying their interests?

Chelsea:

So one key to knowing what you're interested in, it's something that you were so involved in and so focused on that time stands still. You don't even know what time it is or how much time has passed because you're enjoying your task so much. And one thing that our parents did was just expose us to a lot of different hobbies. And, I mean, for me, it's always been animals. I even remember like books that I read were all animal related,

Nicole:

Right? So, you know, you can take, look at what books your child is, reading, what movies or TV shows they're watching. So you were watching animal planet, right? That channel all the time.

Chelsea:

Yes.