1. Chapter 10
At Work and Play

2. Chapter Overview At Work and Play Your Career Outlook
Forecasting Your Career’s Growth
Changing Jobs or Careers
Choosing Your Career
Taking Stock of Yourself
Identifying Compatible Careers
Arriving at Your Career Decision
Preparing for Your Career

3. Chapter Overview cont’d
At Work
and Play
Leisure Time
What Is Leisure Time?
Work and Leisure
Using Leisure Positively
Contemporary Issues
in the World of Work
Job Satisfaction
Technology and Work
Diversity in the Workplace

4. Careers CHAPTER SUMMARY Taking stock of yourself
Identifying compatible careers
Arriving at your career decision
Preparing for your career

5. CHAPTER SUMMARY cont’d
Your Career Outlook
Forecasting Your Career’s Growth
Changing Jobs or Careers
Mining is one occupation that is not expected to grow.

6. CHAPTER SUMMARY cont’d
Contemporary Issues in the World of Work
Job Satisfaction
Technology and Work
Diversity in the Workplace

7. CHAPTER SUMMARY cont’d
Leisure Time
What Is Leisure?
Work and Leisure
Using Leisure Positively

8. Definitions Workplace--place of paid employment outside the home.
Job--position of employment or set of work activities and responsibilities associated with a given position.
Underemployed--working in a job beneath ability or education.
Career--one’s purposeful life pattern of work, as seen in the sequence of jobs held throughout one’s life.
Leisure (unconditional)--activities freely chosen, excluding work and maintenance activities.
Workplace: place of paid employment outside the home.
Job: position of employment or set of work activities
and responsibilities associated with a given position.
Underemployed-working in a job beneath ability or education.
Career: one’s purposeful life pattern of work, as seen in the sequence of jobs held throughout one’s life.
Leisure (unconditional): activities freely chosen, excluding work and maintenance
activities.

9. Taking Stock of Yourself
Choosing Your Career
Taking Stock of Yourself
What are your interests?
What school subjects do you like the best?
What are your hobbies?

10. Choosing Your Career cont’d
Taking Stock of Yourself
What are you good at?
What have been your greatest achievements?
How would you describe your personality?
What do you think you would enjoy most about work (your values)?

11. Choosing Your Career cont’d
Identifying Compatible Careers
Occupation–the activities and responsibilities necessary to perform given work tasks in a particular line of work.
Books you can use:
The Occupational Outlook Handbook (go to the website of the Bureau for Labor Statistics)
The Guide to Job Opportunities (College Board, Princeton, NJ).
Interest inventories may be offered at your campus counseling or career center (e.g. Strong Interest Inventory).

12. Choosing Your Career cont’d
Arriving at Your Career Decision
Be sure you know about the decision-making process.
List the pluses and minuses related to each possible career.
Guard against making impulsive choices.

13. Choosing Your Career cont’d
Arriving at Your Career Decision
Don’t be attracted to a career after only one job in that particular field.
Don’t select a career based just on its prestige or financial status.
Try to be your own decision-maker; do not allow family or friends to unduly influence you.

14. Preparing for Your Career
Choosing Your Career cont’d
Preparing for Your Career
Get a good education.
Enroll in an internship, apprenticeship, or mentoring program in the career field that interests you.
Check out state licensing, certification, and other requirements.

15. Choosing Your Career cont’d
Preparing for Your Career
Practice for your job interview.
Use planned searches to find open positions (e.g., personal networks, job fairs, the Internet, career service centers, professional journals).

16. Forecasting Your Career’s Growth
Your Career Outlook
Forecasting Your Career’s Growth
The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects employment opportunities to grow in service sectors such as:
Finance
Health care
Law
Education
Data processing
The number of manufacturing jobs won’t grow as fast….

17. Your Career Outlook cont’d
Changing Jobs or Careers
The longer you delay changing, the more difficult it is.
People are changing jobs more today than before.
As people age, they are less likely to change jobs.

18. Your Career Outlook cont’d
Changing Jobs or Careers
Reasons for change:
Burnout
Low job satisfaction
Changes in one’s family

19. Contemporary Issues in the World of Work
Job Satisfaction--
how well one likes a given job.
Researchers report that most Americans have high job satisfaction.
How well you perform in a job is not directly correlated with your satisfaction (e.g. people who like a job still might not work hard).

20. Contemporary Issues in the World of Work cont’d
Job Satisfaction--
Satisfaction depends on:
work activity
contact with other employees
learning opportunities
autonomy
working conditions
pay
job security
working hours
supervisor’s style

21. Technology and Work Examples: computers cell phones palm pilots
Contemporary Issues in the World of Work cont’d
Technology and Work
Examples:
computers
cell phones
palm pilots
voice mail
teleconferencing

22. Contemporary Issues in the World of Work cont’d
Technology and Work
More Americans are telecommuting every year!
Virtual office workers have greater job satisfaction….
Cyberslacking--the overuse of the Internet in the workplace for purposes other than work--can be a problem!
E-recruiting is becoming common--job candidates are screened by phone, video, or computer. Be sure to practice!

23. Diversity in the Workplace
Contemporary Issues in the World of Work cont’d
Diversity in the Workplace
Some interesting statistics:
The percent of Whites in the labor force will soon decline from 73% to 58%.
Hispanic workers will soon outnumber Blacks….
Asians are the fastest growing group….
The number of women in the labor force will grow….
Sexual harassment is an issue….
Diversity in the Workplace
Some Interesting Statistics:
The percent of Whites in the labor force will soon decline from 73% to 58%.
Hispanic workers will soon outnumber Blacks in the labor force.
Asians are the fastest growing group of employees.
The number of women in the labor force will grow
faster than the number of men in the labor force.
A related issue is the presence of sexual harassment in the workplace when men and women work together.

24. Diversity in the Workplace
Contemporary Issues in the World of Work cont’d
Diversity in the Workplace
What this means for you:
Be prepared to work with diverse coworkers!
Learn as much as you can about other cultures and customs.
If you are from an individualistic culture, be patient; you will more easily differentiate work time from leisure time than someone from a collective society.
Try to understand role conflicts (i.e., those related to home/family versus work).
What this means for you:
Be prepared to work with a diverse group of
coworkers.
Try to learn as much as you can about
other cultures and cultural customs.
If you are from an individualistic culture, be patient;
you will more easily differentiate work time from
leisure time than someone from a collective society.
Try to understand role conflicts, especially
those related to home/family versus work.

25. Leisure Time
Leisure – time free from work or duty that may be spent in recreational activities of one’s choice.
Most American feel they are working more and playing less.
The average number of hours in the work week has increased:
Administrators hours/week
Small business owners hours/week
Working women have less leisure time than working men because women do more housework than men
Downsizing is partly to blame; remaining workers are assigned additional responsibilities.
Most American feel they are working more and playing less.
This is true; the average number of hours in the workweek is increasing:
Administrators typically work 61+ hours a week
Small business owners work 50+ hours a week
Working women have less leisure time than working men because women do more housework than men
Downsizing is partly to blame; remaining workers are usually assigned other job responsibilities.

26. Leisure Time cont’d
Another cause may be technology. Instead of reducing the amount of work, it has increased the amount of work!
Too much work time? Not enough time with spouses, partners, kids….

27. What Is Leisure? Leisure Time Cont’d
It is different from maintenance activities--activities necessary for life, which include housework, food preparation, doing homework with children.
Playing a musical instrument and being paid for an orchestra performance is work; playing an instrument for the sheer enjoyment is a leisure activity.
If you work too hard at a leisure-time activity, it becomes more like work!

28. Leisure Time cont’d Work and Leisure
There are individual differences in leisure activities depending on values, personal characteristics, needs.
There are gender and racial differences:
Men haven’t become more physically active as recommended….
Blacks have lower level of leisure time activities.
Involvement in leisure activities helps us cope better with negative life events (e.g. divorce).
Leisure activities also help with our overall personal adjustment.

29. Using Leisure Positively
Leisure Time cont’d
Using Leisure Positively
Americans’ favorite way to spend leisure time is watching TV.
…but there are many other leisure activities—we need to choose and plan!
Select activities that coincide with your interests, lifestyle.
Keep in mind that you may need to acquire the related skills; budget your time, money.
Leisure activities in early life can make retirement easier to adjust to.