So, today is Take Your Kid to Work Day, when all the grade nines go to work with their parents. Or in my case, with my mum and sister, Cleo, as they work at the same place, an environmental consulting company called Envirochem Services.

Envirochem is a company that other companies hire to make sure they’re not doing anything ridiculously harmful to the environment. They also do environmental investigations. However, the work that Cleo and my mum do mostly just seems to be bookkeeping.

While I was at Envirochem, my mum explained what invoices are, and Cleo explained how to file them. I also wrote some cheques, went to the post office to drop off a package (with Cleo), and met some of the most important members of the company…

(The dog’s name is Pip, and he belongs to a guy that works there. The platypus, as you may know, is named Perry, and he belongs to a different guy that works there.)

Getting back to the point, I’m not sure I would want to work at a company similar to Envirochem. While I was there I talked to some of the (alive, human) members of the company, and most of them asked me right off the bat whether I liked math and science. (Most of the people there are engineers or environmental scientists.)

And the thing is, while math and science are important, and I don’t mind doing them, they aren’t what I’m primarily interested in. I like fine arts– writing, drawing, music. If I could have any job I wanted I would want something arts-related because that’s what I enjoy and care about. However, I still don’t know what I want to do with my life. Maybe I will end up doing something similar to what my mum and sister do.

Toodles.