Name: ______Date: ______
Directions: The following chart describes typical career areas for the rewards listed. Study the chart. Are the careers listed here consistent with those you cited on the “What I Want from a Career” activity sheet?
/ High income / Some professions, large businesses and farms, high-level sales work, professional athletes, some jobs in entertainment
Middle income / Most professions, skilled trades, some sales and technical work, some in entertainment
Modest or low income / Clerical, some sales, farming
Job security / Government work, jobs with large companies having employee benefit plans, jobs in the unionized industries
Risk or adventure / Some sales, jobs in advertising, entertainment, jobs abroad, starting a business, or working for a new company
Chance to take initiative / Most professions, most management positions, some outside sales
Short hours / Most factory and routine office jobs
Vacations / Teaching, government work of all kinds
Prestige / Doctors, lawyers, politicians, business leaders
Early retirement / Police officers and firefighters, armed forces, dangerous jobs such as mining
Light, easy work / Routine assembly jobs, light sales jobs, many clerical jobs
Outdoor work / Surveying, construction work, some home maintenance work, forestry, wildlife management, greenhouse, nursery, and landscaping work, tree surgery, orchard, and farm work
Pleasant working conditions / Jobs in modern factories, offices, supermarkets, air-conditioned stores (This is an issue of personal preference.)
Variety of duties / Repair work, sales, installatin of machinery or applicances, some office jobs (especially in smaller companies), public relations work
Same duties every day / Routine typing and filing jobs, assembly jobs, cashier jobs
Chance to be creative / Tailoring and dressmaking, carpentry, jobs in commercial art, advertising, writing, interior decorating, entertainment
Chance t o work with people / Sales, social service work, receptionist work, legal, medical, and dental work, restaurant work, public relations
Chance to work alone / Forestry, truck driving, some laboratory jobs, jobs as night watchman, nursery jobs, greenhouse jobs, some computer jobs, some research and library work
Income based on performance / Sales some upper-level management professional athletes
Source: UW Systems Board of Regents, 2001
How to… 7-9 (4th Edition) Activity 82: The Rewards of Work, Student Note 1, Page 1
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