What Color Is Your Parachute 2018 by Richard N. Bolles copy

It’s important to know this before you weigh whether to take a particular
job offer, or not. The most useful way to do this has proved to be starting
with working conditions that made you unhappy in the past, and then flip
them over into positives, just as we did in the previous exercise.
Plants that grow beautifully at sea level, often perish if they’re taken ten
thousand feet up the mountain. Likewise, we do our best work under
certain conditions, but not under others. Thus, the question: “What are
your favorite working conditions?” actually is a question about “Under
what circumstances do you do your most effective work?”
Petal Two, Worksheet #1
A CHART: PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS WHERE I WOULD
THRIVE
As I just mentioned, the best way to approach this is by trying to
remember all the things you disliked about any previous job, using this
chart to list these. (Copy this chart onto a larger piece of paper if you
wish, before you begin filling it out.) Column A may begin with such
factors as: “too noisy,” “too much supervision,” “no windows in my
workplace,” “having to be at work by 6 a.m.,” etc.
As before, when you get to Column B, use a new ten-item Prioritizing
Grid (on this page).
This time, when you compare each two items, the frame you should put
it in, is, “If I were offered two jobs, and in the first job offer I would be rid
of my distasteful working condition #1 but not #2; while in the second job
offer I would be rid of my distasteful working condition #2, but not #1,
which job offer would I take?”