Questions
Chapter 1
- Who gave you your first job?
What kind of job was it? How much money did you make?
- TJ Maxx gave me my first job. It was retail and I was a cashier. I think i made $8 an hour and i earned about $1-2 thousand.
- From looking at your work life
so far, what has been of the greatest value or worth?
- What has been of the greatest value to me has been the income and the ability to be independent from my parents, and the skills I’ve been able to apply to my own personal life. (banking helped my personal finances and ability to do my own taxes, legal system helped with getting more comfortable with calling and depending on police).What i have also valued is seeing how my other coworkers live and spend their money.
- If your job changes, does your
purpose change?
- if my job changes, my purpose does not change. I don’t have a purpose.
- Do you think your current job
will exist five years from now?
- no – not this one. I could be a secretary or assistant to someone else.
- What would be the key
characteristics of an ideal job or career?
- If it’s an office job, then flexibility.
- It it’s a time clock job, like a cashier or a nurse, then really high paying to make up for the lack of flexibility.
- coworkers who aren’t lazy.
- make enough money to save for retirement
- when you daydream, what do you
see yourself doing?
- being competent, and completing tasks efficiently – i honestly don’t see the hard work behind the scenes stuff, I basically see myself in a position as what is in reality probably only attainable by a 55 year old accomplished person who knows what to do and knows how to problem solve. I see myself not being nervous anymore.
- what have been the happiest,
most fulfilling moments in your life?
- when my siblings spend time with me
- getting work done for other people swiftly
- having my own apartment and cleaning it
- if nothing changed in your life
in the next 5 years, would that be ok?
- it would be ok, it wouldn’t be great though.
Chapter 2
- Respond to the statement,
“all progress requires change, but not all change is progress.”
- i believe it’s true and that I don’t do it. If i change anything, it’s not really anything that helps me. It’s something i am very aware of in my life. I joined all those sports teams and music because I wanted to change my life and be successful, and all i did was bounce around and spending energy learning the basics of new things instead of excelling at one thing. Same thing with city light and all the other shit at church.
- What statement describes your career path so
far?
- unfocused and not about career success. it has been about getting a short-term unsustainable lifestyle of independence from my parents.
- how has a company change affected you? How did it make you feel?
- when bosses, higher ups leave, i feel betrayed since I feel like i give them undue credit and allegiance and I do things for them, not for me. I do things to support their reputation, not mine. I made it personal, and I really shouldn’t have.
- Have you experienced any failure in your career? If so, what did
it lead to?
- I feel like i failed in not being able to thrive and be comfortable around others in banking, especially professionally. It lead to me quitting.
- i failed in not being bold enough to get other higher paying positions. It led to me feeling sad.
- what were your childhood goals and ambitions for life? Which ones
have you been able to fulfill?
- my childhood goals were to be a detective or an author. to be financially middle class and stable and debt free.
- Who are 2 or 3 people you know who seem to
have accomplished their dreams? What do you remember about their
accomplishments.
- I think the two bank executives accomplished their dreams. They just had the gumption to shoot high and made people have confidence in them.
- What do you imagine your retirement will be
like?
- I don’t imagine retirement. I don’t imagine I’ll be able to retire unless I’m forced to because of poor health or not being skilled enough to be worthy of employment.
Chapter 3
- In today’s rapidly changing work environment,
is it realistic to expect a job to provide more than just a paycheck?
- No
- Have you ever had a sense of calling in your
life? How did you hear that calling?
- I had a sense that I was to do all things in consideration of what God wanted.
- Does God only call a few people?
- no
- Is it reasonable to expect our work to be part
of the fulfillment of our calling?
- No. I think work is just a way to make money now. I have no hope it can fulfill anything else in me.
- Do you currently have a job, a career, or a
vocation?
- I have a job only. I thought I could have a career or a vocation.
- What does success mean for you this year?
- Success means I either get a new skill or I’m in an education program learning something new
- I get a higher paying job
- I’m out of reading
- I’m at new church
- Are you where you thought you’d be at this
stage of life?
- No, I didn’t think id
be
- in reading
- a secretary
- living paycheck to paycheck
- hating the poor people around me
- embarrassed by my job
- No, I didn’t think id
be
- Do you go home at night with a sense of
meaning, purpose, and accomplishment?
- I go home glad I didn’t do anything wrong at my job. I am not happy to be home and I usually go right to bed.
- If you want different results next year, what
will you change in what you are doing now?
- I’d change anything, but I usually don’t make the right decisions and I change the wrong stuff.
Chapter 4
- Are you a goal setter? Do you typically set
goals at the first of the year? If not, why not?
- I am not a goal setter. I get stressed out at having to work to achieve the weight loss goals. I have no other goals and anything I want I don’t think I can achieve or I don’t think I’m able to achieve.
- How would you describe your current focus on
work?
- I like my job and was for a long time really looking at ways to make it more efficient for everyone. I can’t see a way to make it better than it is for anyone.
- What hobbies do you have? What other skills
and interests do you have?
- I like singing and reading about God and watching shows based in the middle east.
- Skills? – organizing and hard work
- Interests? – I am interested in organizing and efficiency and bible reading
- How are you involved in your community?
- I help with deeper still
- I pray outside planned parenthood
- I’m part of the church choir
- I invite other friends to gateway
- What was your father’s or mother’s attitude
toward work and how has that affected you?
- My parents thought making a lot of money was important and that I should get lots of degrees in things they could see as useful. My wish for a degree in psychology was questioned. He only thought I should do law school or get an mba and do investment banking or do something that could make a lot of money.
- My mom had no input because she doesn’t work and married someone with a lot of money.
Chapter 5
- In what kind of settings are you most comfortable?
- I’m most comfortable in a setting where I can communicate with people by email or if I know what I’m going to say and what the other person will say
- How do you respond to management?
- How would you manage people?
- Are you better working with people, things, or ideas?
- Are you more analys
Blessed and Kept 