Mitchell and Taylor have been very busy lately with this project of making a civilization (complete with village maps) and drawing the people who live there. They have special notebooks exclusively for these drawings, and each of the people is sort of a cross between a bobble-head and an elf. For example, Taylor's latest character is an artist, complete with a paint palette, a painting smock, and a tasselled beret (she's got painting on the brain since doing a week of Art Camp).
When the drawing is complete, they then give the character a name and draw a little symbol at the end of the name to indicate what kind of job they have. So far I think the catergories are "sports", "sleepy heads", and "computer" - which, by the way, doesn't necessarily mean that they have desk jobs and work on computers. No, the "computer" category means that they "like their job." Like Taylor's artist. Or Mike, who counts prison inmates on the computer, and admittedly does like his job. Or myself, who works on the computer mostly to prep for teaching; and I too like my job.
For seven-year-olds these are your occupational choices as an adult: do sports (Mitchell's preference), sleep in and stay up late (Taylor's preference), or play at your job, whatever that job may be.
Hmmm, what's your preference? Personally, "I'll take all three categories, for my dream job, please Alex."
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