My top ten work and personal values are:
-Availability to my spouse. My family is the foundation of my life and my husband is the beginning of that family, so I will always make sure that I make time for “just us”.
-Availability to my children. My children come in at a very, very close second to my spouse. I believe that children are a privilege and that no one can replace a child’s mother.
-Religion. I am a Christian and believe that God is the person that makes life, so I should put time aside for him.
-Family relationships. I think that children are not only raised by their parents, but also by others around them. I want as much positive influence in their lives as I can give them.
-Ethics. I just finished the Ethics and Values course last semester and learned that many people’s business ethics can be far from their personal ethics. So, I would like a career where people have good moral values and won’t put them aside for a good profit.
-Respect. I am a person just the same as anyone else. If they wish my respect, then I must have respect in turn.
-Financial Comfort. All people require money in this life to live, so I would like enough to live by.
-Safety. A safe place to live and work means that I can be comfortable. Then I don’t have to live with a lot of unneeded stress and fear.
-Sense of accomplishment. I want a career that fulfills me. I have a hard time being motivated to do anything if I don’t feel like I’m being productive in accomplishing something.
-Time to myself. At the end of the day there is only so much a person can give. I take time to myself to rejuvenate me as a whole.
I believe that the career that I choose will have to be one that I am able to devote a lot of time to my family, one that is flexible. I want it to be my “Time to myself” so that I actually want to go to it; otherwise, there isn’t enough of a financial need in my life to get me to it.
In the future, though, there are a lot of things that can change. Kids grow up and as their need of me diminishes, that will make more time to focus on a more aggressive career.
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