The Big Book of Jobs

by Hana Mokrosova, Helena Haraštová, Elena Pokaleva (Illustrator)

This fully illustrated career guide helps kids find out what their future profession might be based on their hobbies. Let them find their dream job! After answering questions provided on the content page that offers a variety of different interests, kids can skip to pages with the most suitable jobs for them. For if a kid loves drawing and making things, they can become a painter, of course, but also a tattoo artist, a make-up artist, a restorer, or even a scenographer! Is the kid interested in animals? Then a veterinarian is not the only option. What about a wildlife photographer, a zookeeper, an animal trainer for people with disabilities, or a wildlife rehabilitator? Fourteen chapters provide over 150 possibilities on what to do from classic well-known jobs to the most recent and modern professions.

64 pages, Hardcover

Published May 2, 2023

Reviews

[Theediscerning · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of those civic lessons you get once or twice in your life in school, that just manages to pull back from employing the full flow-chart to tell you what you should do when you grow up. It checks if you like certain things – travel, computers, books, space, and so on – and then lists and describes the jobs, both new and old, connected to those things. So you could be a software engineer and developer or an influencer if computers are your thing, but this just defines, as opposed to the more prescriptive approach unqualified people in schools deal up. (I did it once and found some risible response, but forget what. It certainly was something that I never wanted or felt the urge to do, before or since.) An equal amount of space leant to all our potential hobbies and interests means nobody gets left out, and the colourful cartoonish illustrations make nothing more or less attractive than the rest, meaning the young audience can scour this with ease – and select a future wish they have zero aptitude whatsoever for. They may even end up a careers officer if they're good for little else, of course.