Career—Phil Van Loon

IDEAL JOB (AND LIFE) DESCRIPTION

Where you live—part of world, urban/suburban/small town/country, climate?

Home—neighborhood, type of residence, who else there?

Where work        —mostly indoors or out?

                  —how get to workplace?

                  —home, office, studio, farm, school, shop, factory, store, other?

Work environment—alone or with others? what are co-workers like?

                  —how about noise level? temperature? smoke?

Employer       —self? large organization or small? public agency or private business?

                  —make decisions alone or participate in decisions or follow directions of others?

                  —security needs: insurance, pension, union, risk of layoffs/business failure?

What you do—work with other people, information (data), or things?

                  —variety of tasks or specialize in one area?

                  —supervise other people or responsible only for your own work?

                  —able to plan your activities or respond to needs of others (boss, customers, etc.)

                  —physically active or relatively inactive?

                  —skills required: use hands, body, senses? logic, intuition? words, numbers?                        originality, artistic abilities, helpfulness, leadership, follow-through?

                  —required to continually learn new skills or use existing abilities?

Work impact—how will it affect the world? how fit in with your other life goals?

Satisfactions—what makes it worth it to you?

Salary—minimum? desirable?

Other life goals—health, relationships, personal & spiritual growth, community & world concerns, etc?