My 13 year old neighbor joined me today as part of a job shadow project for school.
Nothing makes you realize the massive knowledge gap between what young people think work is and what work actually is like trying to create a non-boring and sensible experience for a teenage shadow.
Most of the day I’m on a laptop. Responding to emails, reading emails, on Slack threads, spreadsheets, slide decks, bank accounts, social media pages, and Trello boards. I can put that stuff up on a monitor so he can watch and I can try to explain what I’m doing, but it’s kinda hard to convey the purpose and meaning quickly without any shared back knowledge.
It’s hard to describe what I do, especially when it’s so different from day to day.