
Other people were there, wrapped up in waterproof coats, hats and boots. Instantly she was on a trawler: a huge fishing boat with an enormous crane at one end to haul in the fishing net. Trawler worker! Now that sounded exciting. She blinked her eyes to get rid of the movie.

‘The excitement? The race through the streets on a fire engine?’ The firefighter finished polishing the metal object, then picked up another one and began to polish that.

Then he took up a rag and a tin of polish, and began to clean the metal object.Įlli watched. The firefighter sat down and picked up something made of metal. The firefighter walked past the fire engine and went into a room. Of course! The camera was on top of his head. It was the firefighter who was walking forward. She turned her head - a fire engine! Right there! She started to walk forward - what?!! She wasn’t walking - she was still lying on her bed. It was quite dark, but Elli saw a big garage with equipment. She moved her eyes and chose ‘firefighter’. Wear a helmet and boots and thick, thick clothes. That sounded exciting! She would ride in a fast fire engine. Then she went to her bedroom and lay on the bed. It works like this.’Įlli learned how to choose and change jobs. ‘This will really help,’ said her father. ‘I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.’ It’s fun! And it will help people to choose jobs.’ It filmed everything they did, so you can see and hear it too. ‘A doctor wore a head camera for 24 hours. So you choose one - like doctor - then you can see what it is like to be a doctor for a day.’

The list shows different jobs, see? Doctor, teacher, builder. ‘Exactly,’ said her father, sounding pleased. Sometimes he brought them home so Elli could try them. He worked for a big company and was always making new gadgets.

‘I haven’t turned it on yet!’ laughed her father.
