Career Opportunities

In the episode, Norah answers the age-old question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?" Norah and dad talk jobs.

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Dad 0:00

Hey, Nora,

Norah 0:01

hi dad,

Dad 0:02

what do you want to talk about this week?

Norah 0:04

we're going to talk about careers.

Dad 0:19

welcome to the Nora. and dad show., I'm dad and I have with me. as always.

Norah 0:24

Nora. That's

Dad 0:26

before that is you, before we start this week, I just want to say a quick hello to all our new listeners and a quick, thank you for the outpouring of support and encouragement and kind words we received after. Last week's episode. I think anytime you go through any kind of trauma, which is what we, as a family went through, you feel very much alone in the experience and, everybody who reached out made us understand that we're not. And so I just wanted to say a quick, thank you. And while we don't want to. Rehash what we talked about last week. I just think people would just appreciate a very quick, how are you doing Nora?

Norah 1:12

not great.

Dad 1:13

not great.

Norah 1:14

Not great.

Dad 1:15

No, what's wrong

Norah 1:17

Well, I don't feel great. Just like,

Dad 1:19

Oh, physically. You don't feel great. How are you? How are you otherwise? Just, nah.

Norah 1:26

yeah.

Dad 1:26

All right. Well, we won't get into it. That's fine.

Norah 1:30

Recovery is not an uphill process. It's like a roller coaster.

Dad 1:36

I was going to say it is an appeal process, but no, it is, it is a rollercoaster there's days are up and down and we just kinda, we kinda muddle through and do the best we can. All right. So you want to talk about careers and. I guess the logical place to start would be the question that everybody asks everybody, like your age. What do you want to be when you grow up?

Norah 2:05

I don't know. I think, I think a teacher that sounds nice.

Dad 2:11

you've

Norah 2:11

had lots of ambitions. I wanted to be a vet for a really long time. And then I realized I'd have to like kill dogs and cats, so didn't want to do that.

Dad 2:25

vets don't kill the vets. Don't kill dogs and

Norah 2:27

okay. Well they put them down and that made me sad.

Dad 2:31

Oh, but they're sick and you're, you're

Norah 2:33

I know, but I don't want to put, I don't want to do that. So I couldn't

Dad 2:36

I've put, I've put two dogs down

Norah 2:38

I know, and I

Dad 2:40

and it's awful, but they were both the, it was the best thing for both.

Norah 2:44

I know, but it's sad. No. And then teacher for a really long time until like middle school. Cause then I was like, oh, I don't really make that much money. And I want to be able to support. Like a family and stuff. And then it was something to do with friends discs, but then I realized that I don't want to look at dead people and there's a lot of math and science involved with that. So math is not my strong suit. And then it was like psychologist. Which that is still a contender. All right. And then now it's teacher. So it's just like, I wanna work with kids and I want to do that. So,

Dad 3:37

And you came out of the hospital and you were like, I don't think I want to be a psychologist anymore.

Norah 3:41

no, that is not what I said.

Dad 3:43

It's exactly what you

Norah 3:44

That is not what I said. I don't have any

Dad 3:46

Oh, no. It's it's, it's exactly what you said. You said. I don't think I want to, I don't think I'm going to do this anymore. It's too hard.

Norah 3:53

Well, fair enough. Being a teacher, it's hard to.

Dad 3:58

What about, what about, what about lawyer? You just came out of mock trial. You don't want to follow in your dear father's footsteps and be in.

Norah 4:05

after, after I did mock trial in eighth grade, I wanted to be an attorney. Let me did her, uh, to kill a Mockingbird trial

Dad 4:13

Right, right, right, right, right.

Norah 4:14

opening attorney. It was really fun. And then I saw how stressful this to like, actually like do legal work in mock trial because that's a lot more. Yeah, teacher gives you stuff and you have to do it by yourself. So I was

Dad 4:30

Oh, good. Does you just find it? You just, you just finished the. mock trial, competition.

Norah 4:36

Yes. Yesterday. It was very fun.

Dad 4:39

So you're thinking lawyer might be too stressful.

Norah 4:43

I think so

Dad 4:45

So now, now you're, So now you're thinking teacher, what is it about teacher that sounds so attractive to you?

Norah 4:50

kids? And I don't, I don't

Dad 4:53

be a, you, you could be a mom and work with kids.

Norah 4:56

why I want to do that too. I don't know. I just sounds like I, cause I help out with the kids at Lakeridge and it's so much fun and I really like teaching them stuff. I think I'm an okay teacher. Like, um, I dunno. I feel like I'm able to help people decently.

Dad 5:13

So when you say you help out your what, like a, like an aid, is that a fair description?

Norah 5:17

upper school mentor is what they

Dad 5:19

Upper school mentor. And what grades, what grades do you.

Norah 5:23

second and third grade, and I love them. I go on at the beginning and end of the day though. So it's like once a cycle and then I go in for the third graders. It's the last period. And for the second graders, it's the first period. So I don't really get to do much. Lessons, I guess, but I get to like help them with homework and morning work and stuff like that. And it's really fun. And I hadn't been there for awhile because of COVID cases at school. And then, um, I was out, so I missed my days and then they saw me the other day, the second graders, they all ran up to me and said that they missed me and it made me so happy. It was about to cry. There was just so cute.

Dad 6:04

You gave a really honest answer before, and I said, what do you want to be when you grew up in your first answer was, I don't know, which I think is a fair response. Like I think I always knew I wanted to be a lawyer from probably when I was your age and then went to college and took courses that would sort of get me ready for that, but not really. And then went to law school and, and here I am, you know, 25 years after law school. But I think there's a lot of pressure on kids these days to like, know what they want to do. When they go up, you go to a college preparatory school where. I have to go to college. You can't graduate. You can't get a high school diploma unless you enroll in a four year college or university that's required. It's a requirement for graduation. I think there's a lot of pressure on, kids, particularly at your school, like to, to know what they want to be when they grow up. You have? kids, a lot of kids go to Ivy league schools and other. really impressive colleges, which is awesome. but I think it's also, unrealistic to know at 15, how you want to spend the rest of your life.

Norah 7:06

well, I mean, yes, I know that, like, I know I have like points in my life, like where I want to do certain things like, and I want to graduate high school and then want to graduate college, go to grad school and I want to have a family or get married, have a family. And. The rest of us, just step up in the air, whatever happens happens.

Dad 7:28

happens happens, and you might, you might go to college and you might take a course that you fall in love with it. It might change the entire direction of how you. Spend the rest of your life. I ended up a philosophy major in college because this was back in the day. When you didn't register. Now you registered for classes like online, but what I was in college, you actually had to go to the gym where each class, had a line, you had to wait in to register for a. And you pulled random numbers to determine what time you got to go register for classes. So if you pulled a really a really good number, you would get into the really like the high demand courses. And if you pulled a lousy number, you'd be stuck with what was left. When the course is filled up. And by sophomore year, I was stuck with a lousy number and the philosophy line was the shortest. And I ended up in registering for a philosophy course and loved it. And. Decided to go to grad school for philosophy instead of becoming a lawyer. But last I checked philosophers. Don't make a lot of money, if anything, at all. So I went the more practical route and went to law school and got a career instead of just writing and thinking about stuff, which is fun. But it.

Norah 8:46

my English teacher is talking about this Friday. Yeah. So two days ago, he went to college for. Biochemistry. And that was, he was going to be a professor in biochemistry and then hated it and changed to English.

Dad 9:02

that's a big, that's a huge change from biochemistry to English.

Norah 9:06

yeah,

Dad 9:08

Wow. yeah, so, there's no, I.

Norah 9:11

teacher.

Dad 9:13

And if you end up becoming a teacher. which I guess it sounds like, is your thought right now, that's awesome. It's a really noble profession and we need lots of good teachers that kids can connect with and can be inspirational for kids. So I think that's awesome. But you might go to college and take a biochemistry course and decide you want to become a bike. You're shaking your head

Norah 9:31

too much math,

Dad 9:32

and you might become a biochemist or.

Norah 9:34

much math.

Dad 9:36

Or you might take an art history course and decided you want to be an art historian or, who knows what I think the world is entirely open to you and I hope whatever you, whatever path you go down, I just hope it's something that makes you happy and brings you joy because there's nothing worse than spending your life doing something that makes you unhappy. And.

Norah 9:58

and now there's like three colleges I can go to. So I don't have to stress too much about that

Dad 10:03

Three CA oh, it's you don't want to go to

Norah 10:06

No, I can't. I will. I like my room. I like my dogs. I like laundry and dinner. So

Dad 10:14

We will. We will happily, we will happily have you here as long as you want, but at 21 you got to start paying rent.

Norah 10:21

Okay. Fair enough.

Dad 10:22

Yeah. You can stay here through college. And after that, uh, the red check start.

Norah 10:27

Well, I'd like to move out after college. That would be the goal.

Dad 10:32

like I said, you can stay as long as you want, but at some point you got to start paying rent.

Norah 10:37

Fair enough.

Dad 10:38

Fair enough. All right. That's all I got for this week, Nora, if people want to find you online to connect with you, where should they.

Norah 10:48

at Nora Murray music anywhere you can think of, even though I don't really use it besides Facebook and Instagram.

Dad 10:55

Perfect. You can find me at John Hyman all over the place. we are the Nora and dad show. thank you again to everybody for listening. please feel free to smash them stars on apple podcasts and Spotify. We love five star ratings and reviews. It makes us very, very happy and who doesn't like to be made happy and to feel loved.

Norah 11:24

Fair enough.

Dad 11:25

Fair enough, everybody have a good week. We'll see you next week. Love you kiddo.

Norah 11:29

Love you too.