Life Is Work - Ep 60 - Hiring: When I Grow Up
Co-hosts, Producers:
Danielle Stenger
Cameron Navarro, LMSW
Mel’s Mindful Minute: 35:09
Melanie Wilmoth Navarro, LMSW, RYT, TSTSY-F
Owner, Lead Facilitator - Whole Moon Wellness
wholemoonwellness@gmail.com
Contact Info:
Website
Email
Twitter
Instagram
Music:
Intro - King Must Die, by Picnic Lightning
MMM Transitions - Sur, by Picnic Lightning
Outro - Pa’lante, by Hurray for the Riff Raff
When I Grow Up
- RESULT: To begin our hiring series by exploring how we’re taught to pursue certain professions, and consider how to identify a variety of potential careers at any time in our lives.
- Danecdote
- a brief journey of trying different things
Protein - Main Event - Topic d’jour
- Hiring Series Overview
- Over the next 7 weeks, we’re going to walk through the hiring process to explore different ways of thinking about the hiring process
- Provide support and tips on how to navigate this system in a way that promotes our humanity
- Many folx are currently without jobs, and so while these suggestions are the “ideal”, we’re happy to partner and help You Do You
- When I Grow Up
- Current Culture
- When i grow up, i’m going to be a:
- Doctor, Teacher, Vet, etc
- Usually gendered
- Usually a “coveted” career, but not necessarily money focused until HS/college
- School “tracks”
- Electives
- HS Counselors
- Aptitude tests
- Go to college
- College
- Graduation
- Masters
- Career centers
- Just need a job!
- Where are we now
- How many of us out there are working in a job where our major was? Our interests?
- Job satisfaction & career satisfaction
- Second careers
- How to evaluate
- Skills inventory
- knowledge/expertise
- “Soft” skills
- Natural skills
- interests/passions
- Exploration “Networking” - talking to connection in other fields
- CEUs/workshops/free courses/youtubes
- Our You Do You individual consulting
- Taking a risk - being vulnerable
Mel’s Mindful Minute: 35:09
- Journaling exercise from Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way"
We Are Always Students
- The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron
- Nomadland: Surviving America in the 21st Century
- Your Art Will Save Your Life by Beth Pickens
Sharing is Self-Caring
- Self-care
- What’s your dream lifestyle? What does it look, sound, and feel like? What excites you about it?
- Community-care
- Do you know the dreams of those around you? Are there ways you can support them in achieving those dreams?
- Systems-care
- How would organizations benefit if more people were following their passions? Why don’t more organizations support more people doing so?
Reach Out!
- lifeisworkpod.com
- Find questions submission link
- Instagram @ lifeisworkpod
- Ko-Fi Coffee
- info@palanteconsulting.com
