Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for April 16, 2014

Anything to get out of a conversation that Holly does not want to be in the middle of… ;)

Even Tomoya Okazaki of anime “Clannad” wasn’t sure what he wanted to do after graduating from high school. He temporally was a baker at his girlfriend Nagisa Furukawa’s parents’ bakery, but then became an electrician after asking Yusuke Yoshino who was already an electrician who was once a rock musician.

@Val

Fashion consultant…

Oh, heck! I was fifty before I figured out what I wanted to be when I grew up. Don’t rush her.

My oldest has known exactly what she wants to be since 3rd grade (a robotics engineer), but my youngest has no idea. While I know she has plenty of time to figure it out, I would think it would be easier to know so she has something to work towards. Plus, they now test/assess kids in the 8th grade so they can direct their classes to concentrate in the area they’re interested in.@whmill – Now I’m curious…. what did you do in your profession?

It should be ‘home’ in. You home in on something, as with a homing beacon or a homing pigeon. ‘Hone’ means to sharpen, as a knife or a skill.

Look, squirrel!

Patience, Grasshopper!

She doesn’t want to TALK about it, Mom!

When I was Holly’s age, the vocation I wound up in (Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor) was inaccessible to women because we were considered too fragile to endure its rigors: Home visits, negotiating to get jobs for disabled people (“differently abled” now), etc.

What age is Holly..? thirteen? Naaah… unless she’s had some life-imprinting experience she won’t have a clue. Now her little sister… she’s got zoologist or explorer or vet written all over her.

ROFLMFAO!! Thanks for the laugh. Better than all the comics I’ve read today.

Are you going to leave us hanging? What was it??