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

CHAPTER 9
You Get to Choose Where You
Work
Some of you will look at your completed Flower Exercise and have an
instant flash of recognition. Wow, I see what I want to do with my life! I’m
excited. Others of you will need a more carefully reasoned series of steps
to find that out.
Here are five steps that job-hunters or career-changers have found
tremendously helpful to take—and in this order:
#1 Find Out What Careers or Work Your Flower Points To.
#2 Try On Some of Those Jobs Before You Decide Which Ones to
Pursue.
#3 Find Out What Kinds of Organizations Have Such Jobs.
#4 Find Names of Particular Places That Interest You.
#5 Research That Place Thoroughly Before Formally Approaching
Them.
First, You Need to Find Out What Careers or Jobs
Your Flower Points To
1. Look at your completed Flower Diagram, and from the fifth petal of
the Flower choose the top three of your favorite Knowledges (or
fields of interest, favorite fields, or fields of fascination—whatever
you want to call them). All nouns. On one piece of blank paper, say
8½ x 11, or on your mobile device, copy these in the top half of that
page, in their order of importance to you (most important at the top).
Beneath them all, midway down the page, draw a line, straight across.
2. Then, look at the Skills petal on your completed Flower Diagram and