Encouraging your students to consider careers as plumbers or electricians is a great idea. These trades offer strong job security, competitive pay, and opportunities for entrepreneurship. Plus, skilled tradespeople are always in demand, making it a stable career choice. It also allows them to gain hands-on experience and potentially avoid the high costs of a traditional college education. By promoting these careers, you're highlighting the value of essential skills that society relies on daily. How do your students generally respond to this suggestion?
Just to clarify, I'm not encouraging my students to consider careers specifically as plumbers or electricians. I'm just saying it's important to be open to other opportunities. For example, one thing that comes to mind are editors who have been recently promoted to the chair. They might be struggling to find work right now since so many experienced editors are available. Competition is fierce! So maybe those people will need to look at assistant editor jobs. That means that their goal of growing an editing career might have to take a backseat at the moment. Or maybe if they wanted to keep editing scripted TV well maybe now they go work in local news. Those are just some examples. Then there is the whole idea of just finding a completely different career. I do think it is important to have a plan B, or at least think about it. But I also do mention that we shouldn't just give up on our goals completely. It's a case by case basis honestly. We have to look at our specific situation. The main thing here is to just be open to change and trying other things, and to understand that maybe right now we will have to put certain goals on pause. This video was inspired by a recent group coaching call with my students so it's a topic that's clearly on a lot of peoples' minds. I think they respond well to this suggestion, but it might also be something that takes a while to digest. I say this from my own personal experience dealing with this topic. Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!
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Encouraging your students to consider careers as plumbers or electricians is a great idea. These trades offer strong job security, competitive pay, and opportunities for entrepreneurship. Plus, skilled tradespeople are always in demand, making it a stable career choice. It also allows them to gain hands-on experience and potentially avoid the high costs of a traditional college education.
By promoting these careers, you're highlighting the value of essential skills that society relies on daily. How do your students generally respond to this suggestion?
Just to clarify, I'm not encouraging my students to consider careers specifically as plumbers or electricians. I'm just saying it's important to be open to other opportunities. For example, one thing that comes to mind are editors who have been recently promoted to the chair. They might be struggling to find work right now since so many experienced editors are available. Competition is fierce! So maybe those people will need to look at assistant editor jobs. That means that their goal of growing an editing career might have to take a backseat at the moment. Or maybe if they wanted to keep editing scripted TV well maybe now they go work in local news. Those are just some examples. Then there is the whole idea of just finding a completely different career. I do think it is important to have a plan B, or at least think about it. But I also do mention that we shouldn't just give up on our goals completely. It's a case by case basis honestly. We have to look at our specific situation. The main thing here is to just be open to change and trying other things, and to understand that maybe right now we will have to put certain goals on pause. This video was inspired by a recent group coaching call with my students so it's a topic that's clearly on a lot of peoples' minds. I think they respond well to this suggestion, but it might also be something that takes a while to digest. I say this from my own personal experience dealing with this topic. Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!