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A little boy ponders the many possible jobs in his future, from paper-plane folder and puppy-dog holder to mixing-bowl licker and tin-can kicker.

A child is asked who delivers the mail, gives haircuts, flies an airplane, and performs other important tasks. Each question has several different answers from which to choose.

This compendium of creative careers is here to help you open up to all of the incredible career possibilities out there. While some of the featured careers may not be for you (taxidermy anyone?) others may be the perfect fit for your skill set, interests, talents and curiosities. Regardless of what you think of each of the careers featured in this book, as a whole they represent opportunity in all its forms. Beyond the obvious creative careers (painting,...

Little Critter's little sister is thinking about what she will be when she grows up.

"An urgent report from the front lines of "dirty work"-the work that society considers essential but morally compromised"--

Simple text and illustrations introduce the daily work of an auto mechanic.

Alongside a satisfying relationship, a career we love is one of the foremost requirements for a fulfilled life. Unfortunately, it is devilishly hard to understand oneself well enough to know quite where one's energies should be directed. It is to help us out of some of these impasses that we wrote A Job to Love, a guide to how we can better understand ourselves and locate a job that is right for us. With compassion and a deeply practical spirit, the...

When they first meet, Bailey and Charlie cannot stand one another, but when they met a year later as coworkers, Charlie secretly bets a colleague he can get Bailey to go out with him, and their relationship gets more complicated as they get closer and closer.

Huckle Cat, Lowly Worm and all the other delightful Richard Scarry characters in the Busytown playground take turns answering the question "What do you want to be when you grown up?"