(At the end of a long day)
Dad: You look worn out. Long day?
Mom: Yeah. Exhausted.
RJ: Poor Mum. She always works so hard.
Mom: I need a job where I’m not at a computer all day. It’s soul destroying.
RJ: (suddenly REALLY interested / concerned) Cell destroying!!? How does that work? Do they get exploded?
RJ: (sighing) I’m going to be so busy when I grow up.
Dad: Really? What are you going to be doing?
RJ: You know!!!
Dad: (uncertain) Yeah, but… which job? You’ve told me a few.
RJ: I’m going to be a warrior and fight monsters!
Dad: Oh yeah! So there will be a lot of demand for warriors and monster hunters in the future?
RJ: Definitely.
Dad: In that case, there should be good money in it for you. How much do monster hunters get paid?
RJ: Oh about a thousand dollars…
Dad: For each monster? Hmm… I thought it would be more than that.
RJ: No. But it is really great when you find a whole nest of them.
(while eating breakfast)
RJ: Do you know what the worst job in the world is?
A Kraken researcher.
You might think it’s good because there’s a lot of science and learning about stuff and you’re actually a scientist.
But actually it’s bad, because you have to sail out to the edge of the world in a big boat, and no one would want to help you… So you have to get into a small boat, and just when you start to do some research… you get eaten.
Terrible job.
RJ: Mummy, can I tell you something?
Mum: Sure, RJ. What is it?
RJ: (worried) When I grow up, promise that I can go and live at Grammy’s house, with Grammy.
Mum: No, RJ. When you grow up, you’ll probably have to live in your own house.
RJ: But I can’t build a house! I don’t know how!
Mum: You don’t have to build it yourself, you pay someone else to build it for you.
RJ: But I don’t have a wallet with any money in it!
Mum: You’ll have to get a job, so you can earn some money.
RJ: But I can’t do anything!!!
Mum: That’s why you go to school, to learn that stuff.
RJ: But they don’t teach us about jobs there!!!
