It's all in a Day's Work

While you are in the kitchen getting snacks during the TV commercials, I am glued to my chair, checking out the nuances of the latest product sales pitch. I love the creativity that surrounds the marketing of items for our consumption. It would be my ‘dream job’ to sit around a conference table and join in the creative banter to craft the next jingle to be automatically sung while reaching for the morning’s coffee.

It would be so amazing to produce a layout featuring my dream job of advertising executive but not so exciting to document my actual boring work history. However, I do think that future generations and even my own children would be interested in how I felt about my various occupations and eventual choice to be a SAHomeschooling mom.

People often do not scrap about their professions because they don’t have any photos and their personal work history seems boring. These excuses are used by the insurance agent sitting at a desk, the accounting and software consultant, the foreclosure manager, the transportation technician and often by the SAHM. These jobs can be recorded for future generations with just a few creative twists.

A journal layout would be the perfect remedy for the no pictures/boring dilemma. A page describing the actual work, the colleagues, and/or the company logo would all help give a complete picture of the job experience. A resume type layout featuring jobs held over the years would enhance a layout without actual photos of those jobs. Checking those old tax records will give a complete job history in case your memory needs jogging. You might find information on your first job, worst job, and best job.

Journaling could also include feelings and emotions the job produced. Writing about the office romance, the eccentric boss or the coworker who excessively sharpened pencils would be wonderful antidotes to record. SAHM’s could write about their typical day or week and why their job IS a job. This may sound boring but it would be a wonderful keepsake to remember how it felt to have a newborn baby, do the laundry and play soccer mom. From there you could launch into what your children would like to be when they grow up or what you wanted to be when you grew up.

There is also the unique problem of having photos of ancestors in their professions but having no idea how they felt or the particulars of their jobs. My own great-grandfather was a clown in the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus. He had quite an interesting life with them but most of the details were sketchy. I created a layout with journaling information found on the Circus website and included photos of my own children showing a connection to the occupation of their great-great grandfather.

Many of us have had a plethora of work experiences just waiting for their debut on a well-executed layout. From the design of the ‘dream job’ layout to the no photo journaling to the unexplained ancestor’s sentiments, there is no limit to the creative journey the work experience can create for us.

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