We were very happy to hear today that Carrie's work permit for Papua New Guinea is likely to be approved this week. In order to legally work in the country in any capacity, we both need work permits. Mine has been approved for several months. We thought Carrie's approval was our last hurdle before applying for visas for all eight of our passports. It seems now that we need to apply for work permits for all the kids, too. Very frustrating, indeed, given the time that we have left before we are supposed to leave. This is something we never needed to do before for Isaac. On the other hand, we've never needed one for Carrie until now, either.
An interesting challenge to this situation is coming up with vocations/jobs to fill in on their work permit application. Young as they are, we want to choose something that is suitable to their character and their skill set. We don't want them to feel locked into these lines of work should their desires be different further down the road, so our choices must be careful and thoughtful. The pictures below represent each child's propensity (thus far observed) and thus, their chosen profession:
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| Isaac: Toy weapons engineer |
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| Will: Opera singer |
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| David: Automotive ergonomics engineer |
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| Marcie: Soil quality analyst |
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| Seth: Food taster/Cook |
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| Grace: Face painter/makeup artist |
In the land 'Down Under', it's been April first all day....though I do wonder how close your occupational predictions are.
ReplyDeleteI would say that their chosen occupations look pretty much "right on"!
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ReplyDeleteWill be praying for everything to go through smoothly! And I you totally nailed it with their jobs! Thanks for the laugh :D
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh .. you had me going for a minute.
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