VOL. XV, NO. 10

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between drudgery and fulfillment. A "job" is performing a duty to earn money; a "career" is a lifestyle. Finding a job is relatively easy; choosing a career is difficult. When choosing a career, a person must consider, almost too closely, his or her future.

Project BIG, District 207's Career Night, will provide information in finding and planning a career for confused or just curious young people and their parents. Project BIG will take place on Wednesday, March 27, from 7 - 10 p.m., at Maine East High School.

There, professionals will represent approximately 150 careers, from plumbing to baking to doctoring to law. Professionals will be stationed at tables, where they will have tools of their specific trades, pamphlets, and most importantly, first hand occupational experiences to share with young people.

The professionals will discuss with young people what (if any) type of education or training is required for a specific career, how to break into a career, salaries, and other occupations related to that career.

Project BIG is not a college night: however, some trade and community colleges will be represented at the event. Project BIG is not constructed to recruit youths into new occupations; yet sometimes as a result of phone numbers and company names given to him or her at Project BIG, a youth will find immediate employment.

The distance to Maine East is short for a person to travel to encounter a piece of the future.