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

Self-Employment
Transportation, Warehousing, and Material Moving
Utilities
Now, the nice thing about O*Net Online is that once you have chosen
anything on the list above, the site has drop-down menus which allow you
to go deeper into each career cluster, industry, or job family that you have
checked off. It drills down to career pathways, and then drills down
further to individual occupations, and then drills down still further to
tasks, tools, technologies, knowledges, skills, abilities, work activities,
education, interests, work styles, work values, related occupations, and
salary.
The only limitation here, as you will see in our chapter 11, “The Five
Ways to Choose/Change Careers,” is that O*Net only does this for about
900 occupations. Its immediate predecessor, the D.O.T., had 12,741
occupations listed. So, O*Net does not offer a complete map of the jobmarket
by any means.
And even for those occupations that are listed in O*Net, remember:
jobs, industries, and careers are mortal; they are born, they grow, they
mature, they flourish, then decline and ultimately die. Sometimes it takes
centuries, sometimes merely decades, sometimes even sooner than that.
But, eventually, most jobs, industries, and careers are mortal. It doesn’t
matter if they were killed off by China or Mexico, or other supposed
villains. They would have died anyway. Eventually.
We are mortal. So are jobs. Understand that truth and you will avoid a
life of bitterness and blame. In today’s world, you must always have a plan
B up your sleeves.
Petal Five, Worksheet #3
PRIORITIZING YOUR KNOWLEDGES: FAVORITE SUBJECTS
MATRIX
YOUR FAVORITE SUBJECTS MATRIX