Kids Work

Length of Shower:  How young is too young to take your first shower?  --So today I was thinking about those people who do voice over for a living.  You know, the ones who you hear over the top of commercials or movie trailers or even the voices who perform the books-on-tape stuff.  How easy must that job be?  I mean, not to take away from the talent, but if you boil in all down all those people are doing is reading.  They are getting paid to read.  Most people learn to read in like kindergarten and first grade.  So, basically (and I mean very basically) those people are making a living doing what a child can do.  "Awesome," I thought to myself.  And then I starting thinking about all the jobs that are basically glorified careers doing what we all learned as kids.  "Like what?" I thought to myself.

Well, think about all the basic stuff you did as a kid; there is probably a job for it.  In kindergarten we were encouraged to "pretend" a lot.  Bam!  That's an actor or writer.  Also in grade school we were suppossed to go outside for recess and "play."  Bam!  That's a professional athlete.  What about cleaning up your messes?  Bam!  That's a garbage man.  Reading is (as mentioned above) voice over artists.  How about when we were all taught in those early years to "be nice to others," well isn't that what we now call a Social Worker or maybe someone who starts and works for a charity?  Or even anyone in the healthcare profession?  I think so.

This leads me to believe that while we think of children often times as little adults, it's probably more accurate the other way around;  adults are just large children with bigger toys.  Think about when you were taught to do just about anything...I bet you can find someone with that profession.  Remember learning to ride a bike?  Can you say, "Lance Armstrong?"  I can't think right now how learning to tie your shoes can turn into a job...but I'm sure it's out there.  What profession ties a lot of knots or ropes....a Sailor for fisherman maybe?  Anyway you get the point.

Of course there is the dark side to everything and this is no exception.  There were those kids, and you know who they were, who just refused to learn the skills the rest of us did and they chose to remain selfish and greedy and to not share.  Those people all went on to run banks or large corporations and they get rich and share very little until forced, just like they did as kids.  But for the most part, we all found something we were good at and stuck with it.

I grew up with pets and like so many parents, my mother and father made my siblings and I help in the feeding and walking and taking care of those pets.  Well, it shouldn't be a surprise that now one of my siblings run's a pet care company and it grosses over six figures every year!  My other sibling was obsessed with windmills and clouds as a young child and now is a Meteorologist.  See, we are just larger versions of our child like selves.

So, I guess those early years of development really are some of the most important!  Keep that in mind you parents out there when you are teaching your children how to....well, how to do anything!