Last week I spoke at Service Design Bristol. It was lovely to spend the afternoon and evening in another city. The meetup is relatively new and what I loved about it was how the talks were both quite personal - no corporate case studies of service redesigns. This gave the evening a different quality which I enjoyed.
“What you’re good at” can also only usually be defined by what you can see in front of you as well. I had no idea my job role, or something like it, existed when I was at school. I could only consider getting jobs that I see and know about (hence I think a lot of kids want to be bin men, nurses, vets, teachers, carers). There’s something to be said for pulling back the curtain on lots of jobs that exist but people don’t know about. I’ve been thinking about this for a while and keep wanting to create something that helps do this!
“What you’re good at” can also only usually be defined by what you can see in front of you as well. I had no idea my job role, or something like it, existed when I was at school. I could only consider getting jobs that I see and know about (hence I think a lot of kids want to be bin men, nurses, vets, teachers, carers). There’s something to be said for pulling back the curtain on lots of jobs that exist but people don’t know about. I’ve been thinking about this for a while and keep wanting to create something that helps do this!
Yeah that's super interesting! We spoke about this after my talk and how we, as an industry, need to be better at this. Going into schools etc.