This week’s topic was pretty interesting as it is synonymous with my life right now. Not that I don’t love my job or anything but I found myself having to take some of the text’s advice as certain aspects of my job were very much starting to upset me. Furthermore, those aspects were blending into my personal life and having an overall effect on my general affect whether at work or not. So that definitely was interesting and so I just followed the suggestion from the book and consciously separated the two aspects and tried to make some recreational time by going to the gym on a morning I normally would not go and it actually worked. I also had to, like the book said, separate my self-worth as a person from my success, or lack thereof, at work this previous week.
The chapter itself was also educational beyond that.
I mean, I didn’t really know the concepts of job, career and occupation. I got
the general gist but never had the direct understanding. I like how an
occupation encompasses several jobs. While that’s not possible at my current
place of employment it’s good to know that as I would have simply defined a job
as the same thing as an occupation. Furthermore, I always thought a career was
defined as something you wanted to always do instead of as your entire life’s
work including previous jobs and interviews.
Another thing that I liked about the chapter was the
concept that “Your attitudes and behavioral patterns as a student might show up
in your work.” I hope that this carries over to be true into my working
relationships as a counselor as I found the opposite of this to be true when I
was an undergrad. I didn’t work at anything in college but find myself to be
the complete opposite now.
I didn’t agree with everything from the chapter
though. While I agreed with the moratorium concept when it was first mentioned
I think that more applies to self-discovery. I think the best way to find your
career is through direct personal experiences not taking time out. Had I not
jumped directly into the workforce but went straight to grad school I'd have
been finishing the program right now but wouldn't have dual certified because I
"knew" I wanted to do secondary and didn't want to work with kids.
Now it us 100% opposite.
I also found the different types of personalities in choosing
a job interesting. I was the artistic, social and conventional types. It just
reminds me of a conversation I had with my mother over Easter how College was
always going to happen for me because it felt like she “pushed” it on me as
much as possible without forcing me. But then she joked that “manual labor” and
things like that aren’t really for me and we both laughed and said she was
right. So it was pretty funny to see that I was an artistic, social and
conventional type in this sense.
Corey, G. & Corey,
M.S. (2008). I never knew I had a choice: Exploration in personal growth (9th
Edition). Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole
Edition). Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole
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