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Perspectives on Work: Passion, Opportunity, and Choice
In previous assignments you had the opportunity to look at some perspectives on the value of work, as well as reflect on your own preferences and skills.
In this assignment, you will start on the path of career exploration, exploring how our views and perspectives are diverse from those around us, and how we can use those perspectives to develop our own.
Essentially, we are just adding more tools to your tool belt that you can use on your path, wherever that path may lead you. One day soon you could jump on a plane and go to work in some tropical paradise, or maybe you are on your way to some frozen tundra. Either way, you will have the tools you need to navigate the journey!
This assignment explores how different perspectives on work, passion, and opportunity can shape career decisions.
In the next few years in your career-life education, you will be introduced to a number of career journeys. The key is to balance those career paths to the expectations and traditions in your family, and those that are needed in your community. Through research, exploration, and guidance from others you will develop your career-life path!
Sean Aiken questioned the common advice to “follow your passion” because he wasn’t sure what his passions were. Instead, he created the One Week Job Project, in which he tried 52 different jobs in 52 weeks to explore possibilities and develop direction.
As you watch, consider how Sean’s perspective both aligns with and challenges ideas about work and passion you have encountered in previous units.
Watch Sean's intro video:
Pretty amazing isn't it? The one thing that benefits Sean, as it will you in any work experience you take on, is his willingness to keep an open mind about the job he is in. Never go into an opportunity thinking it might not be right for you. Think about the different things that Sean learned about himself through these jobs, and what he learned about the job market.
Sean’s project is inspiring, but it relies on flexibility, finances, mobility, and social capital. Naming this explicitly helps students:
Avoid idealizing one pathway
See their own options as valid
Think critically
Assignment
A lot can be taken from Sean's perspective of passion and work; some of which goes against we have seen in prior units.
Use the following assignment sheet and answer the questions as you watch
Sean's TEDTalk: "What Makes You Come Alive".
SUBMIT
Submit your completed assignment in your Advisory block Google Classroom.
Due: Monday, January 12
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