career exploration

Feiler also discusses why we no longer live linear lives, letting go of the idea of having a career, and redefining success.  

Bruce Feiler is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers, including Life Is in the Transitions, The Secrets of Happy Families, and Council of Dads. His three TED Talks have been viewed more than four million times, and he teaches the TED Course How to Master Life Transitions. His latest book is called The Search. 

In this episode we talk about:

• How Feiler went from being a guy whose early work focused on spirituality to now focusing on work 
• How historically work was something that was supposed to make you unhappy. And how Millennials and Gen Z have helped change that
• What is a workquake?
• Why the majority of us actually have 5 jobs— what those are and why they matter
• What is a meaning audit? 
• The best single question you can ask yourself to write your own story of success 
• And the historical figures who helped define how we think about success

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Lately, I've been talking to my son Gus about considering a career in the trades. A lot of the white collar jobs out there don't seem very fulfilling, and A.I. is going to make more and more of them disappear. But skilled tradesmen are in demand, and that demand is only going to grow. One option I've floated to Gus is to still go to an affordable college, for the mind expansion and social opportunities, but then, instead of going on to get a graduate degree, as so many young people do, he could go to trade school instead.

That's one potential route should he be interested, but I sure wish he could be exposed to the trades while he's still in secondary education. All states have forms of what's called "Career and Technical Education," or CTE, but in most places, it's set up in a patchwork fashion; the programs are run by local schools that partner with other institutions that offer instruction in the trades.

The state of Connecticut does things differently. They have a one-of-a-kind CTE system, which, as one journalist recently put it, could serve as a national model for how to put the trades back in school. The Connecticut Technical Education and Career System, or CTECS, includes 17 high schools that are all headed by a single agency. Each school offers an education in both academics and the trades on the same campus. The students who choose to attend these special high schools spend half of their time on the former and half of their time on the latter, so by the time they graduate, they've earned both a high school diploma and certification in a trade. And the size and organization of CTECS allows it to partner with hundreds of employers in the area who furnish students with paid work on actual projects, so they can get plenty of hands-on, real world experience.

Today on the show, I talk to Brent McCartney, who oversees the architecture and construction trades at CTECS, about how the program works and how it benefits both the students and the community.

Resources Related to the Podcast

• AoM series on working in the trades
• AoM Podcast #642: Finding Money and Meaning in the Blue Collar Trades
• AoM Podcast #308: The Case for Blue Collar Work With Mike Rowe
• Recent New Yorker article that featured CTECS: "The Great Electrician Shortage"

Connect With Brent McCartney/Learn More About CTECS

• Connecticut Technical Education and Career System
• Brent on LinkedIn

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• The difference between Life Mission and Life Purpose
• Using our body to make choices
• ADHD elements we need to make our working life enjoyable
• Why career enjoyment is so crucial for ADHD
• Knowing what you want and need to make you successful in your career
• Creating ADHD-friendly conditions and cultures
• Owning what we need
• How your ADHD brain engages with work
• Why career dreams and purpose matter
• What it looks and feels like to be powerfully involved in your career

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