Don’t Let the Green Grass Fool You

Don’t Let the Green Grass Fool You

Job opportunities decision is often done in now-or-never manner with either money or seemingly inescapable boredom often being a major factor. 

Everyone has individual attitude towards money and its “gravity coefficient”. Although, sociologists claim that the latest generation of young people is not willing to work twice as much for twice as much money, this is an “average hospital temperature” and individual preference can be rock-solid. 

Speaking of boredom and its aliases - apathy, procrastination, disengagement - who guarantees you that this won’t happen at a new place and how long is the warranty?  

Or echoing Einstein’s words: if you know how to avoid insanity somewhere else, what halts you from doing it here? 

I have a self-discovery exercise in mind, which I learned during a course on self-management.

Fill in the table below according to the rules:

1. Personal values - there is a vast list to choose from and it is an exercise by itself.
2. Rank values by importance: the top one gets a 10, others - any number from 1 to 9 without repetitions
3. Fill in the jobs from where you are now to the one you would do if you don’t have to do anything at all.
4. Rate each job’s potential satisfaction: one of the four certainly gets a 10, others - any number from 1 to 9 without repetitions.
5. Divide and conquer… no, multiply and sum to get total numbers in blue cells below.

The largest number satisfies your personal values the most.

There is no better or worse, so interpretation is on you, but the four numbers can form a peculiar curve, which also evolves in time, so repeat the exercise once in a couple of years or after serious changes in life.

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