Career Exploration
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butterflyBecause y'all might be interested:
1. Please describe your "needs". What do you have to have to survive? What does the book mention and do you agree?
I always think of my needs as being fairly simple and basic, but when I thought about it more deeply, I believe that my needs are more varied than I had acknowledged.
I need shelter, air, food, and water, of course, but I also need the company of people who trust and confide in me. I've only recently gotten this in my life and now that I have, I realize that I wasn't fully living without the trust and support of others.
I also need a certain amount of intellectual stimulation. If the environment around doesn't provide it, then I'm not happy or content at all. And I believe that perhaps I wouldn't feel free to use my imagination so freely if I didn't have a basic feeling of security in the world around me.
I didn't really think about my needs this way until I read the first chapter in 'Coming Alive from Nine to Five'.
2. Please describe your "wants" for the following four categories. What do you want for yourself in regards to each of these aspects of self? Physical? Emotional? Intellectual? Altruistic/ Spiritual?
Wants are, of course, even more complicated than needs. My wants mostly concern the need for both space and closeness. I want to have room to grow and learn and play, but I also want to have the instant communication and a sense of community. What would be ideal would be to live in a very natural setting with a state of the art computer.
In regards to physical wants, I would want to be as healthy as possible, without, say, a lump on the left side of my neck that I need to get taken out. Another kind of physical wants would include a place to live that would enable horse-back riding, which is my favorite form of exercise, as well as being comforting.
As for emotional wants, it's a great comfort to have someone love me no matter what. Also, pets are nice. Very unconditional with their love.
My intellectual wants can best be filled by a well-stocked library and a computer with an internet connection (the later would also fill some emotional wants).
I am a fairly spiritual person and I used to volunteer a great deal. Now that I'm thinking about it, I do miss doing that. It's nice to help people.
3. Please list 5 words that describe your values. Be sure to use the results from exercise 3 on page 31. You can list these as values you have and/or values you want to develop. How are these values congruent with your wants?
Five values that I have but want to develop further are create ideas, improve society, make things, explore ideas, and help people. I think that these all fit in with my wants as stated. I'm intensely curious and I have an inclination towards writing.
I have...
a very open and trusting relationship with God
a mother who tries to understand me and who supports me no matter what
a father who is starting to make sense to me
a brother that I can count on
friends that love me and support my creativity
a cat who can be very sweet when he wants to, things in my life that I am passionate about
a job that has some potential
a lot of scars
a good splash of common sense
I can...
write
be quite artistic if need be
mow lawns better than anyone else in our family
cook uncomplicated things
read an average-size book in less than two hours
tell whether or not a word is spelled wrong, even if I don't know the correct spelling
still do a little bit of Highland Dance
remember things that seem insignificant at the time
sing
I need...
attention
music
books
a computer
amusing t-shirts
to get over this writer's block
I hate...
Britney Spears, at the moment
crying
myself, some of the time
I am...
young
lost
trying
scared
I try...
too hard
to believe in myself
to do what I should
I want...
to feel free
to physically meet my online friends who live all over the world
to read something exciting and original
to write something exciting and original
I love...
God
my family
my friends
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
*nsync
the way the world looks when the sun is about half an hour from setting and it just stopped raining
the way roses smell
the neat glass bottles that Coke has recently taken to using
I am ending...
moment by moment
my life as a child
my fear of people
I am beginning...
my life, every morning when I get up
this class
to think that I can be a worthy person
to trust others
Please tell us how something unexpected has changed you. Please include the three stages of change: ending, confusion, and beginning.
The first thing that came to my mind when I read this was the death of my aunt.
She died in a car accident. It was horrible and surreal. My dad woke me up and told me about it, but then when I woke up the next morning, I thought that it had just been a bad dream.
When I realized that it had really happened, I was devastated, though I don't believe that I showed it. Of everyone that I knew, she was the most supportive of me as a person. I always felt like she understood me and didn't judge me.
This happened three years ago, the day after Christmas. I would say that I didn't truly start to leave the shock and confusion of her death behind until very recently.
I'm big on repression and I did my best to keep my feelings about her death buried as deeply as they could be. I've read about the various stages of grief and I'm still not sure that I've passed through them, still not sure that I've reached anywhere near acceptance.
But I'm starting to see that my potential didn't die with my aunt and that I can accomplish good things, even without her in my life. And my memory of the mistakes that she did make, as the car accident was her fault, have made me become a more careful and responsible driver.
1. Please describe your "needs". What do you have to have to survive? What does the book mention and do you agree?
I always think of my needs as being fairly simple and basic, but when I thought about it more deeply, I believe that my needs are more varied than I had acknowledged.
I need shelter, air, food, and water, of course, but I also need the company of people who trust and confide in me. I've only recently gotten this in my life and now that I have, I realize that I wasn't fully living without the trust and support of others.
I also need a certain amount of intellectual stimulation. If the environment around doesn't provide it, then I'm not happy or content at all. And I believe that perhaps I wouldn't feel free to use my imagination so freely if I didn't have a basic feeling of security in the world around me.
I didn't really think about my needs this way until I read the first chapter in 'Coming Alive from Nine to Five'.
2. Please describe your "wants" for the following four categories. What do you want for yourself in regards to each of these aspects of self? Physical? Emotional? Intellectual? Altruistic/ Spiritual?
Wants are, of course, even more complicated than needs. My wants mostly concern the need for both space and closeness. I want to have room to grow and learn and play, but I also want to have the instant communication and a sense of community. What would be ideal would be to live in a very natural setting with a state of the art computer.
In regards to physical wants, I would want to be as healthy as possible, without, say, a lump on the left side of my neck that I need to get taken out. Another kind of physical wants would include a place to live that would enable horse-back riding, which is my favorite form of exercise, as well as being comforting.
As for emotional wants, it's a great comfort to have someone love me no matter what. Also, pets are nice. Very unconditional with their love.
My intellectual wants can best be filled by a well-stocked library and a computer with an internet connection (the later would also fill some emotional wants).
I am a fairly spiritual person and I used to volunteer a great deal. Now that I'm thinking about it, I do miss doing that. It's nice to help people.
3. Please list 5 words that describe your values. Be sure to use the results from exercise 3 on page 31. You can list these as values you have and/or values you want to develop. How are these values congruent with your wants?
Five values that I have but want to develop further are create ideas, improve society, make things, explore ideas, and help people. I think that these all fit in with my wants as stated. I'm intensely curious and I have an inclination towards writing.
I have...
a very open and trusting relationship with God
a mother who tries to understand me and who supports me no matter what
a father who is starting to make sense to me
a brother that I can count on
friends that love me and support my creativity
a cat who can be very sweet when he wants to, things in my life that I am passionate about
a job that has some potential
a lot of scars
a good splash of common sense
I can...
write
be quite artistic if need be
mow lawns better than anyone else in our family
cook uncomplicated things
read an average-size book in less than two hours
tell whether or not a word is spelled wrong, even if I don't know the correct spelling
still do a little bit of Highland Dance
remember things that seem insignificant at the time
sing
I need...
attention
music
books
a computer
amusing t-shirts
to get over this writer's block
I hate...
Britney Spears, at the moment
crying
myself, some of the time
I am...
young
lost
trying
scared
I try...
too hard
to believe in myself
to do what I should
I want...
to feel free
to physically meet my online friends who live all over the world
to read something exciting and original
to write something exciting and original
I love...
God
my family
my friends
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
*nsync
the way the world looks when the sun is about half an hour from setting and it just stopped raining
the way roses smell
the neat glass bottles that Coke has recently taken to using
I am ending...
moment by moment
my life as a child
my fear of people
I am beginning...
my life, every morning when I get up
this class
to think that I can be a worthy person
to trust others
Please tell us how something unexpected has changed you. Please include the three stages of change: ending, confusion, and beginning.
The first thing that came to my mind when I read this was the death of my aunt.
She died in a car accident. It was horrible and surreal. My dad woke me up and told me about it, but then when I woke up the next morning, I thought that it had just been a bad dream.
When I realized that it had really happened, I was devastated, though I don't believe that I showed it. Of everyone that I knew, she was the most supportive of me as a person. I always felt like she understood me and didn't judge me.
This happened three years ago, the day after Christmas. I would say that I didn't truly start to leave the shock and confusion of her death behind until very recently.
I'm big on repression and I did my best to keep my feelings about her death buried as deeply as they could be. I've read about the various stages of grief and I'm still not sure that I've passed through them, still not sure that I've reached anywhere near acceptance.
But I'm starting to see that my potential didn't die with my aunt and that I can accomplish good things, even without her in my life. And my memory of the mistakes that she did make, as the car accident was her fault, have made me become a more careful and responsible driver.