The other day, I was preparing for one of my most important talks yet- an explanation to all kindergarten students on what I do for a living in hopes to inspire them to accomplish great things in their lives. Yep, the career day talk.
This was going to be interesting. For starters, I have three totally different resumes. One for my legal work, another for my social media/writing experience, and finally there’s my modeling resume. Some days I’m in front of the classroom, other days I may be on set getting fake eyelashes put on.
For my presentation, I had to decide what I was going to talk about. Would the kids enjoy a talk about being a lawyer/professor, or would they much rather hear about what I write about? I didn’t even think to describe the modeling. Seemed silly and superficial. I decided to focus only on the legal career since it’s the one that required additional years of schooling, good grades, good study habits, etc. All things that should inspire the little ones to study hard and do well from now until they have gray hairs.
*Crickets*
Before I know it, I’m asking the students how many of them like to go to Disney World, or Wild Adventures, and play pretend, and they are all jumping out of their seats. I describe to them the fun modeling jobs not only I’ve done, but their classmate, and it’s all a big crowd pleaser. They are jumping out of their seats, super excited, full of questions, and within seconds everything I said about being a lawyer and professor has gone out the window. Instead, they wanted to become models so that they could spend the entire day at Disney World eating ice cream just to get that perfect shot.
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