In this new era of global economy and information technology, balancing work-family activities and interactions is becoming very important in people’s reflections about which career or job path to follow. As people get older and involved in different roles at the same time they realized that it is harder to combine their jobs with their family obligations. People almost the time have to learn to give priority to things that matter the most for them. On the other hand, it is very common to find people that have studied a long career and after they engaged in a job related to his career, they realized that it does not match their personality traits and desires. Therefore, it is very common that between age 18 and 36, people change their jobs
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Every person is different, so they need to analyze each of them as separately. Maybe what works for a person does not work for others. As Savickas et al. mentioned in their paper, the life- designing models pretend to help people to endorse a career story that support adaptive and flexible responses to developmental tasks and occupational transitions. From my point of view, adaptability can be defined as the ability to use self -regulation strategies such as, primary and secondary strategies. Primary and secondary strategies can help individuals to adjust to the needs of different settings, to exert some influence and control of the context. These strategies are very helpful when people encounter themselves in a new environment. In my opinion, confidence levels also play an important role when people are choosing a career or a job. Every time we think that we are able to accomplish our objectives, we are more likely to have very outcomes. However, we always have to take into account our capabilities to acquire the knowledge to follow certain goals. For example, we can think that we can fly; however, if we do not have wings, or we are not able to learn how to fly, we cannot do …show more content…
Therefore, as they get engage in their careers, they realized that maybe they are not good at it. Or maybe the career they have choose do not match with their personality traits or desires. So, it is very important to choose a career that we ourselves desire to follow. Career selection should be a personal choice and must be respected by our family. Nowadays, retirement has been studied by many researchers. This is occurring because many people are retiring at the same time. This is also associated with the rapid aging of populations in most develop countries. Today birth rates and death rates are very low in most develop countries, and the life expectancy is also very high. In my opinion, not every person goes through the process of retirement in the same way. Some people that are very stress with their jobs psychological and physical demands tend to view retirement in a positive way. I think they see retirement as a way to escape from all the stressors that are related with their jobs. These people are more likely to go through the process of retirement in a more smooth way. They try to engage in volunteer activities to not feel isolation, and to avoid negative outcomes after retirement. These people prepare themselves for new and better ways to live their remaining time. As we mentioned in class, as people get older, they tend to focus on more positive and healthy things than on negative or
Every person is different, so they need to analyze each of them as separately. Maybe what works for a person does not work for others. As Savickas et al. mentioned in their paper, the life- designing models pretend to help people to endorse a career story that support adaptive and flexible responses to developmental tasks and occupational transitions. From my point of view, adaptability can be defined as the ability to use self -regulation strategies such as, primary and secondary strategies. Primary and secondary strategies can help individuals to adjust to the needs of different settings, to exert some influence and control of the context. These strategies are very helpful when people encounter themselves in a new environment. In my opinion, confidence levels also play an important role when people are choosing a career or a job. Every time we think that we are able to accomplish our objectives, we are more likely to have very outcomes. However, we always have to take into account our capabilities to acquire the knowledge to follow certain goals. For example, we can think that we can fly; however, if we do not have wings, or we are not able to learn how to fly, we cannot do …show more content…
Therefore, as they get engage in their careers, they realized that maybe they are not good at it. Or maybe the career they have choose do not match with their personality traits or desires. So, it is very important to choose a career that we ourselves desire to follow. Career selection should be a personal choice and must be respected by our family. Nowadays, retirement has been studied by many researchers. This is occurring because many people are retiring at the same time. This is also associated with the rapid aging of populations in most develop countries. Today birth rates and death rates are very low in most develop countries, and the life expectancy is also very high. In my opinion, not every person goes through the process of retirement in the same way. Some people that are very stress with their jobs psychological and physical demands tend to view retirement in a positive way. I think they see retirement as a way to escape from all the stressors that are related with their jobs. These people are more likely to go through the process of retirement in a more smooth way. They try to engage in volunteer activities to not feel isolation, and to avoid negative outcomes after retirement. These people prepare themselves for new and better ways to live their remaining time. As we mentioned in class, as people get older, they tend to focus on more positive and healthy things than on negative or