Interests & Careers

Explore your interests and dare to dream about your future.

What are you interested in?

List your skills and interests, and think about what you enjoy and what you are good at. Begin by answering these questions:

• What do I like to do?
• What are my strengths?
• What are my skills? What am I good at doing?
• What is important to me?
• Do I like to take the lead?
• Do I like to work alone or as a team with others?
• How would I like to contribute to my community?

Matching Interests and Careers

Dare to dream about your future. What will you do after you graduate from high school? Will you go to college? Will you have a good-paying career in a field that you are passionate about?

There are lots of jobs that don’t require a college education, but an education beyond high school can make the difference between living the life you want and just getting by. The things you like to do now may be a good indicator of the career you’d like to have as an adult.

Using your list of interests and skills, you can begin to explore jobs that might make a good fit. Look at the list below and show the jobs that are related to your interest areas. Click on a job to learn about it. The jobs shown are just a few of the paths you can follow; you can find similar occupations in each job you select.