Episode 347: The Career Clues You Forgot About: Decoding Your Childhood Dreams

Do you remember what you wanted to be when you grew up?

An actress? An astronaut? A teacher?

As kids, we don't understand the career landscape.

We build our first sense of "what I want to be when I grow up" out of a small handful of visible or memorable options, because that's all we've ever seen.

But we do subconsciously understand archetypes.

When a five-year-old says she wants to be an astronaut, it doesn't necessarily mean she wants to go to space. The real clue is underneath it: a love of adventure, discovery, being the one who goes first. The job title is a placeholder for a deeper desire we don't know how to express yet.

Once I understood that, I went back through my own list of what I REALLY WANTED to be when I grew up to see how it measured up to what I do today.

I was shocked.

Your childhood dreams are not naive. They're clues.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Why what we wanted to be as children is more revealing than we think, even when the career itself makes no sense anymore
• The four childhood dreams I had and what the deeper archetype underneath each one was pointing toward
• The four childhood dreams I had and what closed the door for each one at the time
• What my sister told me at 7 that made me give up on this love
• Why picking a career at 18 with almost no understanding of what's possible is one of the strangest things we ask young people to do
• How the career I have today didn't exist when I was a teenager trying to decide what to do with my life
• How to look at your own childhood dreams for the deeper archetypes underneath

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