A career choice isn’t just for a salary. A career identity is means by which a person's motivations and interests affect their choice of career. Once a person chooses their career, it totally affects the way they act, think, and the way a person pursues challenges in not only their careers, but also in their personal lives. Even though everyone has their personal lives, their career choice can help shape their identity. Before we even may have an idea of our career choice, we already have a personal identity. Personal identity is the concept in which we develop about ourselves that changes throughout the course of our life. Many people believe another factor in the discovery of their personal identity is their ethnicity. Race is a major factor
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Of the people that said this, many of them are elders or practicing christians. The American people mostly weigh their personal identity on three things: Family, God, and Country. Depending on the person, the order in which these three are put can differ, but these three are the most common factors in Americans for personal identity. Obviously, different generations believe different things. For example, Elders are more likely to say that their family makes up a larger percentage of their personal identity than Millennials …show more content…
Both men and women can look for the same career, but yet when they are in that field, they can have two totally different ambitions. For example, men are more likely to a job for the money for providing for their families, whereas a women is more likely to choose a job that she will enjoy doing. It is usually like this because it is seen in American society that men are supposed to be the ones that make the money to provide and the women will then perform the tasks in order to provide for the family. In recent years, women have become more equal to men in terms of making equivalent or more money than their male spouses. The women, no matter if they make more or less money, usually choose a career in which they will enjoy
Of the people that said this, many of them are elders or practicing christians. The American people mostly weigh their personal identity on three things: Family, God, and Country. Depending on the person, the order in which these three are put can differ, but these three are the most common factors in Americans for personal identity. Obviously, different generations believe different things. For example, Elders are more likely to say that their family makes up a larger percentage of their personal identity than Millennials …show more content…
Both men and women can look for the same career, but yet when they are in that field, they can have two totally different ambitions. For example, men are more likely to a job for the money for providing for their families, whereas a women is more likely to choose a job that she will enjoy doing. It is usually like this because it is seen in American society that men are supposed to be the ones that make the money to provide and the women will then perform the tasks in order to provide for the family. In recent years, women have become more equal to men in terms of making equivalent or more money than their male spouses. The women, no matter if they make more or less money, usually choose a career in which they will enjoy