Please read the Instructions below first.
Consider the following when you are trying to identify your interests.
If you are not ready to Make this site YOURS to do your LifeWork planning! consider the following offer I will make to you and a few others.
It is a long way off, but someday you will be looking for a job. Most of you won’t want just any job; you will want a job that you will enjoy doing and that pays a decent wage. I call that your LifeWork.
There are over 900 occupations that describe almost all 150 million jobs in the United States. How do you find the right occupation for you so you can begin to search for the right LifeWork for you? And what is your Plan B or C in case Plan A does not work out?
There is a process called career planning. I call it LifeWork planning. It starts with you listing your interests. It goes through several more steps until you find the occupation that appeals to you. Then you start looking for your LifeWork in that occupation field or you design your own LifeWork. I’ve defined those steps in this Google Sites (GS) Template that you can copy and edit to your needs called “My LifeWork Planning (e)Portfolio”. I will give you more details about it later.
My offer to you is to help you through this LifeWork planning process in return for you helping me to “perfect” portions of the Template (from your point of view) so it is easier for others in your age group to use.
Type this short URL goo.gl/8UunO into your browser and follow the instructions to use a Google Doc that will be a “communication center” between you, your teacher, perhaps your parents and school counselor, and me to make a list of your interests, then, later, begin to use this Google Site template.
If you completed the school project (above) with me and your teacher, congratulations! Please follow the instructions below to begin to use this Google Site template.
Children ages 6 thru 12 should be encouraged by their parents to create and maintain a very simple paper list of their interests without regard to relative importance or explanation. (More)
If you are a parent with a child younger than 13 years old, encourage them to list their interests on a piece of paper, then fold it and keep it on them for a week or two to add interests as they think about them. Ask them to give you the list so you can keep it safe and tell them you will give it back to them if they ask for it or in a few months so they can review and add any new interests they have acquired.
Click "Print page" at the bottom of this web page, and print just the first page and give it to your child and ask them to add their interests and give it back to you.
When your child is ready, consider clicking on Make this site YOURS to do your LifeWork planning! and set this site up for your child, adding their interests above and periodically printing it off for them?