Week 5: Career

Pre-class assignment

• Write about a job or a field that you're interested in. What makes you like it? Where did you get the information about this job / field?

• What is the most rewarding part of your job or of jobs you’ve had in the past? Share about that particular experience. What did you do? What have you learned?

• What would you like to look back on and say you were most proud of in your life?

In-class activities

• Open discussion using pre-class assignments as conversation starter

• Other discussion questions (suggestion)

  • What career goals have you considered?

  • Where do you see yourself in five years?

  • What obstacles have you identified that may impede your success (geography, work-life, skill sets, fears, too much accountability, etc.)? Which of them are you willing to change?

Supplemental resources

• Discussion: Planning your career

• Phrases to talk about job

• Vocabulary about job