The process

• Meet a person who performs the job of interest for a living.

  Find out what their work day is like.

• At anytime throughout the process, look up the jobs of interest and learn about them.

• Repeat steps 1-8 in the summertime when school is out.

• 8. Do an internet search with each circled word one by one with each of the synonyms for 'job'.

  look at the search results for names of interesting jobs and write them down.

• 7. Take the next circled word and repeat steps 5 and 6 to connect the meaningful term with careers.

• 6. Repeat step 5 but type in the word 'work' instead of 'job'.  Repeat this with other synonyms:

  Career, occupation, employment, profession, business, trade,

• 5. Type the first meaningful word followed by the word 'job' into a search engine like Google.

  Look through the search results for names of jobs that seem interesting, and write them down.

• 4. In the activities they liked, circle all the important and meaningful words they wrote down.

• 3. For each item written down, ask them to indicate whether they liked it or didn't like it.

• 2. Ask the young people to write down everything they do on a typical Saturday and Sunday.

• 1. Ask the young people to write down everything they do on a typical school day.