{"id":192,"date":"2015-11-06T06:11:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T06:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/?p=192"},"modified":"2015-11-06T06:11:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T06:11:35","slug":"cool-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2015\/11\/06\/cool-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was thinking\u2026 \u00a0if we are going to be able to study further \u2013 then we have to know what to study. Right?\u00a0 In order to know what to study \u2013 we need to know what type of career or job we want to do. We only have one life and a lot of it is spent at work – so it\u2019s important that we like what we are doing.<\/p>\n

Some people figure this out early in life \u2013 they love animals and want to be a vet. Or they have a passion for planes and want to be a pilot. Some kids are hell-bent on becoming a world renown surfer or soccer player or rugby player.\u00a0 I know one kid who is only 6 and can tell you without a shadow of doubt he wants to be a palaeontologist. Most people can\u2019t even say the word \u2013 let alone know what it means.<\/p>\n

However, many of us don\u2019t have a cooking clue what we want to do when we are big. This isn\u2019t a bad thing. It\u2019s also okay to change your mind from time to time when you learn new exciting stuff and realise there are different opportunities attached that could form potential career choices.<\/p>\n

The main thing is to be careful that you make sure you have the right subjects at school.<\/p>\n

How? I hear you howl. How do we take the right subjects if we don\u2019t know what they are?<\/p>\n

True \u2013 it\u2019s tricky!<\/p>\n

A safe bet is to always take maths as one of your subjects. Maths is one of those things that one sometimes feels like dropping because it seems a bit hard or not really necessary. In fact \u2013 it\u2019s very necessary for lots of careers. If you don\u2019t have matric maths there are some doors that are so firmly shut there is no easy way to open them again.<\/p>\n

I found out the other day that science centres can help with career guidance. Sci-Bono<\/a> Discovery Centre in Jozi has a very awesome career <\/a>guidance centre and it\u2019s free. You can just walk-in and find out about jobs and careers that you never even dreamed of. However, for career assessments and career counselling they do prefer if you make an appointment. It\u2019s a professional service and they don\u2019t want to you to be disappointed if you arrive at the centre and all the staff are already busy. adminofficecareer@sci-bono.co.za<\/a>\u00a0 or call (011) 639 8450\/8476\/8479.<\/p>\n

Check it out.<\/p>\n

Sibo<\/p>\n

Career of the week: palaeontologist<\/a><\/p>\n

Meaning: a scientist who learns about the forms of life that existed in previous geologic periods, mainly by studying fossils.<\/p>\n

Example: My friend James wants to dig up dinosaur bones and find out more about them.<\/p>\n

\"James\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was thinking\u2026 \u00a0if we are going to be able to study further \u2013 then we have to know what to study. Right?\u00a0 In order to know what to study \u2013 we need to know what type of career or job we want to do. We only have one life and a lot of it … Continue reading “Cool Careers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,33],"tags":[46,47,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}