Occupational Configuration Assignment

When I was in the process of completing the occupational configuration assignment, I learned a lot more about myself than I thought I knew. I decided to break my findings up in eight categories including: Sleep/Rest, ADL’s. IADL’s, Work, Play, Leisure, Education, and Social Participation. I learned that the balance in my life is not perfect. To my surprise I spend about 44.6% of my week sleeping. I honestly had no idea that I slept that much. My education took up 20% of my week which is good, but I can probably work to decrease sleep and add more education. My leisure and ADL’s seemed pretty normal to me because they were ar 13.4% and 15.8%. My social participation also shocked me in a way because it was only at 5% and I would have thought that it would have been a lot higher than that. Unfortunetly, my work came out to only be 1% because I have a summer job, so in the fall I volunteer coaching cheerleading only once a week. My play and IADL’s were so low, both at 0.06%, that I was not even able to include them on my chart. …show more content…
I may sleep a lot, but so far it has not had an effect on my grades. The 20% of time I spend on my education has been beneficial to me because I have been able to keep my grades up. I chose to only have 15 of my time dedicated to work because of my summer job. I have a very good paying job in the summer, so I like to take the off months to focus on school and volunteer if I am able to. When it comes to my time use, my parents have the biggest impact. Being that I still live at home, they are still very consistent with checking on my educational status. This gives me motivation to try to spend as much time as I can on my school work. My parents also work a lot so when I am home alone, I enjoy to