Hello Students,
For
this week, choose any two topics below.
What is your most
important value in life and how are you acting on this value to achieve your
life goals?
Comment on a
successful decision you have made and how it matches your values.
Comment on an
unsuccessful decision you made and how it did not match your values.
What are your highest
interests as described by the Interest Profiler in this chapter? How do these interests match your career
choice or the major you are considering?
Interests include realistic, investigative, artistic, social,
enterprising and conventional.
Comment on another
student's post. Can you add to their comment or raise new questions?
As one of your options this week, read the following 2
scenarios and comment on one of them. Based on the individual’s values, give
your opinion about what would be the best decision.
Scenario 1: What should be my major?
Shawn is twenty years
old and has completed two years of college. He has been trying to decide
whether to major in engineering or music. He has completed all of his general
education requirements as well as several courses in music, math, and physics.
As a child, Shawn was interested in science and dreamed of making new
inventions. He always took things apart to see how they worked. Math was always
easy for Shawn, and he received awards for achievement in science. He also took
part in band throughout his school years and learned to play several
instruments. As a teenager, he had a garage band and became so interested in
playing the piano that he spent two hours a day practicing. Shawn’s dilemma was
that he was becoming stressed out trying to do both majors and
no longer had time to do well in both music and engineering. He also wanted to have time to get a part-time job in order to become more independent. Shawn’s top five values are being independent and living on his own, having a secure future, doing interesting work, achieving something important, and being able to relax. Based on his values, what major should Shawn choose?
no longer had time to do well in both music and engineering. He also wanted to have time to get a part-time job in order to become more independent. Shawn’s top five values are being independent and living on his own, having a secure future, doing interesting work, achieving something important, and being able to relax. Based on his values, what major should Shawn choose?
Scenario
2: Should Maria continue her education?
Maria is a married
mother of two young boys ages five and seven and a part-time college student.
Maria and her husband, Juan, are very proud of their Mexican heritage and value
their marriage and family. They both think that it is important for Maria to
spend time with the children. Maria learned to speak English as a second
language and has made sure that her children speak both English and Spanish.
While the children are in school, Maria has been attending college part-time
with the goal of becoming a teacher’s aide in a class for bilingual children.
She has some experience as a teacher’s aide and gets a great deal of
satisfaction from helping the children. Juan works in construction, and the
family has sacrificed to come up with the money to pay for Maria to attend
college. Maria has struggled to earn her associate’s degree and is proud of her
accomplishments. She values her education and wants her children to do well in
school. Now Maria is considering continuing her education to earn the
bachelor’s degree so that she can become a teacher. She would enjoy having her
own classroom, loves working with children, and would have a higher income as a
teacher than she would as a teacher’s aide. Maria’s husband is concerned that
she will spend too much time at college and will not be home for the children.
He is also relieved that Maria has finished college and plans to work part-time
to supplement the family income while the children are in school. Should Maria
continue her education and earn a bachelor’s degree?