Thinking way back on it, music was not really MY choice as a career. As a granddaughter of a concert pianist with a 50+ student piano school in upper-class Webster Groves in Missouri, I received free piano lessons from the age of six and layed the ground for a fine technical basis to enter college as a music major.

But what I really needed and what is now possible was the opportunity to really understand what occupations derived from what educations. Begin with the end.

What I want to build as part of CocoLoco is a "warehouse" of occupations with interviews with key people in multiple levels of jobs explaining how their degree in say Civil Engineering or Math or Environmental Science really played into their job. How were they able to use various courses...or not. Right now, career counseling goes not gather, refine and use the web to really give students an idea of both what's available and where it can lead.

For instance the following. Why not construct a series of videos showing for instance how civil engineering can lead to essential, absorbing, rewarding jobs. The following is an example of one candidate. What kind of careers lead to working on one-ton flywheels? Or electrical engineering leading to developing batteries that are better and better, or turbine generators. Hey, as the daughter of an airline mechanic, I would have loved to have been able to see where mechanics could lead beyond my father's chosen profession.

How's this for stimulating an interest in science, electronics, etc.:

Pushed Along by Wind, Power Storage Grows - NYTimes.com: "Electric companies are using other strategies for storage and frequency regulation. In Stephentown, N.Y., near Albany, a Massachusetts company, Beacon Power, is building a bank of 200 one-ton flywheels that will store energy from the grid on a moment-to-moment basis to keep the alternating current system at a strict 60 cycles.

Atop each flywheel is a device that can be a motor at one moment and a generator the next, either taking energy and storing it in the flywheel or vice versa. The Energy Department provided a $43 million loan guarantee to assist in the $69 million project.

The Energy Department is also supporting storage projects that rely on compressed air. Surplus electricity is used to pump air into an underground cavity; when the electricity is needed, the air is injected into a gas turbine generator. In effect, it acts as a turbocharger that runs on wind energy captured the previous night, instead of natural gas burned at a peak hour.