My kids are at an age where I talk jobs and college with them. Today, as we were driving to their art class, we talked about the beanboozled challenge from Jelly Bellys. If you haven't tried it, be warned...it isn't good. You will get a bunch of jelly beans that are supposed to be two different flavors - one good, one bad - same color. For example, banana and pencil shavings or sour apple and minion farts. I did this with my middle girl as she was so excited about it. It did not go well. So today, as we talked about the game, I said can you imagine being the one who has to taste the jelly bean that is supposed to taste like dog food? Who has that job and how many employees do this job? Do they play rock, paper, scissors to find out who tastes the next one? Do they taste one called dog food and spit it out and say not yet...try again. How much do they pay this poor person who has to do the tasting? To my way of thinking, they need to be compensated very well for these services.
When I got home, I decided to look up the company (factories/warehouses in CA, WI and IL) and they are hiring someone for Research and Development. The job is in CA and only pays about $100,000 to 120,000. I don't think that is enough to willingly eat skunk spray over and over again.
So I remind the girls that there are some real interesting jobs in this world, they just need to decide what they want to do when they "grow up" and find out what you need to have to have that job.
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