Jamie Beck, M.S.
Career Vision by Jamie
However you found me, here you are. My story is simple. I aim to redefine the role of work in the lives of everyone I meet and I am obsessed with the notion of career exposure because we can never become what we don’t know exists. My background is in Macrolevel Sociology and I use it to offer a systems approach to the role work plays in our lives.
What if……
We taught our children 5 jobs a day instead of 5 facts they can google?
We invested $5 a day into our children’s career exposure instead of saving $5 a day for their college fund?
Instead of doing math problems about paperclips we integrated career education into every subject in school?
We spent as much time choosing a job as we take choosing a car or a house?
We hung college majors in classrooms instead of ivy league banners?
We focused less on ranking and more on courses we want to build our resumes.
You had looked in the newspaper or online one week earlier or one week later, would you still be doing the same thing you are doing 40+ hours a week?
Why I do This Work
80% of students change their majors and 70% of American’s report being dissatisfied with how they spend 24% of their week working. We will spend over 50 years of our lives working and sleeping. The majority of high school students can only name a handful of jobs, most of which they are not interested in. Most jobs they can name also wear uniforms because that is what they have visually seen since they were in preschool; community helpers. Shouldn’t how we spend our time earning money be one of the most important decisions we ever make? How can we make these decisions if we don’t know our options? Even a minimum wage worker has a choice between working as a cashier at a pet food store, an auto supply store, or at a museum, but we focus more of what we want to be or what we are qualified to do rather than where we want to work. Likewise,
6 figure earners like engineers have the same choice; to engineer sprinkler control panels, running shoes, or rollercoasters. But…..we can never become what we don’t know exists. Career Vision restores choice to how we spend our time working and earning money.