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returning to your values

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Remember the exercise Your Values all the way from chapter 1? Now is the time to link your values with your expectations from a job. Try the exercise again. What is most important to you in your work? Rank the following from 1 being top to 20 being of little importance to you:

Making money

Having time for family and friends

Being creative

Prestige

Power

Having an orderly schedule

Working with people you like

Being able to advance

Having every day be different

Helping people

Working with your hands

Solving problems

Traveling

Security

A touch of "glamour"

Feeling needed

Organizing/managing others

Flexibility

Casual

Being yourself

Look at the attributes you chose for 1, 2, and 3. What careers have these characteristics?

Are you on the right track with your major?

 

Wahlstrom/Williams: Learning Success, Third Edition, Media Edition
Chapter 12. Majors & Careers
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