A Change in Perspective Ignorance is bliss — but is it really? In the three years attending the University of California, Santa Barbara, what has plagued my mind the most is whether I am pursuing the right career. The more classes I took and was exposed to, the more knowledge I accumulated, the more I became confused. It was as if the more I learned, the more miserable I was. Perhaps this dilemma torments me more than others because of my natural tendency to want to learn everything. While this class not only added to the confusion, it helped me take a step back and tackle this problem using a more holistic perspective. That is, it helped solidify what values and goals I prize more, and really make a career decision using a multidimensional
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When choosing to pursue a career, the only factors I took into consideration were what was I good at, and what paid the most money. The first four weeks of the course where perhaps the most influential, in that it made me question whether I really wanted to be an accountant for the rest of my life. I found that I came to resonate a lot with Donald Super’s Theory (1980) which focuses on an individual's values and the development of self-concept. I had always thought I was too ambitious, that I wanted to learn and do everything, and that this natural inclination to always learn and improve made me constantly compare myself to others and only made me feel more inadequate. I wanted to be the best in my accounting classes, I wanted to be a great musician, I wanted to learn computer programming, I wanted to start a business and be an entrepreneur. As I learned more about the importance of values and that career development is a lifelong process that is subject to change because our values inherently change as we progress through different stages of life, I figured out why it was that I felt the need to learn everything. I did not have my values solidified. I valued being an accountant because of the high income. I valued being a musician because of the creativity it required. I valued computer programming because of how prevalent technology is in today’s day in age. I valued starting a business because of the challenge, the freedom, the flexibility, and the ability to be able to give back to the community through a great quality product or
When choosing to pursue a career, the only factors I took into consideration were what was I good at, and what paid the most money. The first four weeks of the course where perhaps the most influential, in that it made me question whether I really wanted to be an accountant for the rest of my life. I found that I came to resonate a lot with Donald Super’s Theory (1980) which focuses on an individual's values and the development of self-concept. I had always thought I was too ambitious, that I wanted to learn and do everything, and that this natural inclination to always learn and improve made me constantly compare myself to others and only made me feel more inadequate. I wanted to be the best in my accounting classes, I wanted to be a great musician, I wanted to learn computer programming, I wanted to start a business and be an entrepreneur. As I learned more about the importance of values and that career development is a lifelong process that is subject to change because our values inherently change as we progress through different stages of life, I figured out why it was that I felt the need to learn everything. I did not have my values solidified. I valued being an accountant because of the high income. I valued being a musician because of the creativity it required. I valued computer programming because of how prevalent technology is in today’s day in age. I valued starting a business because of the challenge, the freedom, the flexibility, and the ability to be able to give back to the community through a great quality product or