What do you want to be when you grow up? Has your dream job changed as you’ve gotten older? Have you already started investing time and effort to try to make it happen?
In “The New Dream Jobs,” Jenna Wortham writes:
When the National Society of High School Scholars asked 18,000 Americans, ages 15 to 29, to rank their ideal future employers, the results were curious. To nobody’s surprise, Google, Apple and Facebook appeared high on the list, but so did the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency. The Build-A-Bear Workshop was No. 50, just a few spots behind Lockheed Martin and JPMorgan Chase. (The New York Times came in at No. 16.)However scattershot, the survey offers a glimpse into the ambitions of the millennial generation, which already makes up more than a third of the work force. By 2020, it will make up half. Survey after survey shows that millennials want to work for companies that place a premium on employee welfare, offer flexible scheduling and, above all, bestow a sense of purpose. These priorities are well known and frequently mocked, providing grist for the oft-repeated claim that millennials are lazy, entitled job-hoppers.But it’s important to remember that this generation was shaped by a recession, an unprecedented crush of student debt and a broad decline in the credibility of all kinds of institutions. Stability is an abstract concept to these young workers, so they instead tend to focus on creating a rich, textured life now, rather than planning for a future obscured by uncertainty.
Students: Read the entire article, then answer the questions below:
— What’s your dream job? Why do you want that job? Do you think you’re well suited for it?
— What qualities are most important to you in your future career? Salary? A sense of purpose? Scheduling flexibility? Feeling challenged? Feeling appreciated? The ability to get ahead? Liking what you do or being good at your job? Anything else?
— What investments are you willing to make now to help you get your dream job eventually?
— What companies would you want to work for? Are you surprised by the National Society of High School Scholars survey rankings?
Your task is to write an essay answering the questions that you consider relevant from those listed in the prompt. It should be a well-developed essay, not just a set of answers to the questions enumerated above. You're also required to include a relevant example taken from an external resource, which should be properly referenced in the text of your essay and at the end of it (Check the blog's help pages to revise how it should be done if necessary)
Your task is to write an essay answering the questions that you consider relevant from those listed in the prompt. It should be a well-developed essay, not just a set of answers to the questions enumerated above. You're also required to include a relevant example taken from an external resource, which should be properly referenced in the text of your essay and at the end of it (Check the blog's help pages to revise how it should be done if necessary)
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