My Ideal Work Day



My Ideal Work Day

In this exercise, you’ll get a chance to visualize your ideal work day. In responding to the questions below, try to be as detailed as possible, really paying attention to the look and feel of your day. Review your assessment results to help you answer these questions, too. Visualizing your ideal day will give you a lot of valuable information to use in developing your career plan and will help you be more targeted about your career goals. It also provides you with a better sense of your priorities so that you can focus on meeting those priorities in your career and employment planning process.

So visualize your ideal work day and imagine the following:

|What hours do you work? | |

|How are you traveling to work? Or | |

|are you working from home? | |

|Describe your place of work. What | |

|do you see there? Do you sit at a | |

|desk? If so, what’s on the desk? | |

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|Who are the people with whom you | |

|come into contact? What kinds of | |

|people are they? How are they | |

|dressed? | |

|How do you begin your day? What are| |

|the first things that you do? | |

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|What skills and talents will you | |

|use today? | |

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|What is your work environment like?| |

|Are you inside or outside? An | |

|office or a factory? Is it quiet or| |

|noisy? Predictable and slower or is| |

|it action-packed and fast-paced? Do| |

|you work alone or as part of a team| |

|or a little of both? Do you sit | |

|most of the day or are you being | |

|more physical? | |

|What kinds of work activities are | |

|you doing? Do you use a computer? | |

|Machinery or tools? Do you stay in| |

|one place or are you traveling? | |

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|What passions, interests or values | |

|are part of your work? | |

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|Do you make a regular salary? Do | |

|you have an opportunity to earn | |

|commissions? What about benefits? | |

|What do you have? | |

|How do you feel at the end of your | |

|work day? How do you feel when it’s| |

|time to go to work the next day? | |

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