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Mayumi Oda
CEP121,2270
Professor Wright
September 23, 2008
GUIDED QUESTIONS CHP. 6
1. What kind of impact does your career direction have on your life?
The career direction will form an important part of your identity in society, nature
or starve my subsequent personal development, affect the rhythm of my life, and
influence the lifestyle that you can afford.
2. What factors complicate career decisions?
The factors that complicate a career decision making are my evolving identity, my
other life commitments, and the changing job market.
3. Why is it important to "listen to your heart" in making career decisions?
Listening to my heart increases the probability that I will like my own work. In
addition, it will be possible to contemplate whether the particular career would encourage
or stifle my personal development and ponder whether it would give my life the rhythm
that I desire and the space that I want for other life commitments by listening to my heart.
4. What is meant by "using your head" in making career decisions?
It means that take practical considerations that are the money I will earn, which is
both now and in the future, and a down-to-earth assessment of my chances of reaching
my goal.
5. What is meant by a "balanced decision"?
It is an ideal decision that involves both listening to my heart and using my head.
6. What are the problems with the following decision styles: sacrifice style,
daydreaming style, haphazard style.
Sacrifice style has a problem that neglects psychological needs, and it may lead to
work that you dislike, for it is a decision with a head only.
Daydreaming style has a problem that is unlikely to reach a goal because the
decision makes much of a direction that I like.
Haphazard style has a problem that to move toward what my value, or to discover
what is important to me and make progress toward it.
7. What is involved in making trade-offs? Based on the career path of someone you
know, give an example of a trade-off.
Trade-off is to give up some things to obtain others that are more important to us.
For example, my mother was accepted by a four year college in a pharmacy major when
she was young, but she had three younger sisters. She thought her parents would needed
to work harder to pay for her tuition and education for her sisters if she went to the
school. So, she went to a two years college to learn nutrition instead of the four year
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college, for it was a cheaper tuition and she was able to work for supporting her family
after two years. It is more important for her to help her family than to go to four year
college at that time.
8. What are some reasons why setting a career direction takes time?
First reason is that people have to test their skills. Second reason is that people
need to sort out their priorities and try out various goals in light of their other life
commitments.
9. What are the components of a plan to implement a career decision?
The components of a plan to implement a career decision are,
 The clear statement of a career decision.
 The date when people will begin implementing their plan, and the date when they
hope to complete it.
 A list of potential internal and external obstacles and the strategies people might
use to overcome them.
 A list of possible resources: people, publications, Internet resources.
 A list of actions people will need to take, along with targeted completion date for
each one.