Depending on the age of your child, when you ask them what they want to be when they grow up, you’ll be met with a wide variety of answers. Particularly young children might tell you that they want to be some sort of animal or magical creature. When a couple of years pass, they’re more likely to come out with career choices such as firefighter, police officer, footballer, ballerina, or astronaut. As more time passes, they’ll start to become a bit more realistic with their ideas. This is the time when you want to encourage them to take the right path. After all, a lot of decision making has to take place early on in order to ensure that they focus their efforts in the right areas. If they decide to pursue alternative opportunities like crop science or animal nutrition jobs, the most important thing is to maintain high levels of support. While we all want our little ones to eventually bag a career that they enjoy, we should also bear in mind that they need to be financially secure. After all, while money won’t make you happy alone, it can help to ease some of life’s difficulties. So, here are a few different roles that you might want to get your kid to start thinking about from an early age!
A Barrister
Becoming a barrister is one of the most well paid jobs out there. While starting salaries tend to come in at around £12,000 a year, the average lawyer will earn £45.8 k a year, and if your kid is particularly successful in the field, they could make a name for themselves and end up raking in around a million annually. Now, there are many jobs out there where you can walk straight into the position and can excel with a little in-house training from your employer. But specialist areas such as law are a little more difficult to enter. In order to land a position in almost any legal job, your child is going to have to spend at least three years in higher education. This will endow them with a thorough working knowledge of the law in order to assess incidents and put compelling cases together. So, you should ensure that they take their schooling seriously and place particular focus on maths, english and science, as most red brick universities require a pass in each of these for an application to be considered down the line.
An Architect
If your child spends a lot of time playing with Lego blocks, K’nex, or Mobilo toys, they’re showing an active interest in architecture. Sure, it may be at a basic level. But this interest could expand and grow, and architecture is a brilliant professional realm to get them involved with. Salaries tend to start at around £18,000 a year, then move on to an average of £38.8 k a year. The best in the field can take home over £87,000 annually. What’s more? It’s an extremely creative role that will allow your child to eventually take their work into their own hands rather than sitting behind a desk going through paperwork everyday!
These are just two different paths that you should consider directing your little one down. The earlier they start developing an interest in a field, the more dedicated they will be to the role in their later years!
A Nurse
People tend to think of Doctor or Surgeon when they think of medical jobs but a Nurse is a great route to go down. There’s less education involved which means you pretty much go straight into the job itself. You’ll have to revise for a few medical exams such as the UKCAT test but once that’s over you’ll be ready to start. A great part of nursing is the variety of work you do on a day to day basis. You’ll never be stuck doing the same task over and over again like an office job! If you want to learn more about nursing, check out this infographic by Day Webster.
