Career: Labor You Love

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CareerLabor You Love

• Personal Finance
• Mrs. Dayley

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You can consciously begin now to choose the
career you want.
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Questions to Answer

• How does the career you choose affect your
  income?
• What employee characteristics are important to an
  employer?
• How do education and training affect your salary?
• What is an entrepreneur?
• What are employee benefits?

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Career vs Job
On a separate sheet of paper, list the
characteristics of a career and the
characteristics of a job.

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See Figure 2.1
Personal Skills
Basic Skills
Thinking Skills
Resource Management

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Interpersonal
Information Management
Technology
Systems
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Employers want employees who

• Are dependable
• Work well with others
• Are good problem solvers
• Deliver high quality work
• Have high productivity
• Conduct increasingly complex and unique
  activities
• Have great attitudes

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Assignment 2.1
Go back to Figure 2.1 page 17 and rate your
skills from 1 to 5 (5 being the highest).

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You can always makemore money, but you cant
makemore time.Read section under Making Money
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MM EnergizerEach MM color represents a
category
Green Personal goals
Brown Careers you are interested in
Yellow Hobbies and Interests
Orange Money management experience
Red Fact about money
Blue A job you have held
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Education

• The level of formal
  knowledge and training you have
  attained.
• General rule the more education you have, the
  higher your income.

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Average College Costs
College Type Cost/Year
Private 24,946
State (non-resident) 16,848
State (resident) 11,338
Costs include tuition, dorm, cafeteria meal plan, fees, books, and spending money. Costs include tuition, dorm, cafeteria meal plan, fees, books, and spending money.
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Education Earnings
Annual Household Earnings
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Entrepreneurship

• Entrepreneur
• A person who creates a business from scratch.
• Self employed
• Strong sense of discipline
• Be your own boss
• Beat the competition

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Becoming An Entrepreneur

• See an opportunity
• Take the initiative
• Develop plans
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What Employees Want

• Employee benefits
• The additional benefits offered by employers
• Paid vacation
• Paid sick leave
• Health plan
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement

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Cost of Living

• Cost of Living
• Includes items like rent or home costs,
  transportation, insurance, utilities like natural
  gas and electricity and food.

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Action StepsIts Your Life

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