Have you ever picked a job based on the fact that you
were good at it but later found it made you feel very uncomfortable over time? When
you select your career, there's a whole lot more to it than assessing your
skills and matching them with a particular position. If you ignore your
personality, it will hurt you long-term regardless of your skills or the job's
pay. There are several areas of your personality that you need to consider to
help you find a good job. Here are a few of those main areas;
1) Do you prefer working
alone or with other people?
There are isolating（使孤立）jobs that
will drive an outgoing person crazy and also interactive jobs that will make a
shy person uneasy. Most people are not extremes in either direction but do have
a tendency that they prefer. There are also positions that are sometimes a
combination of the two, which may be best for someone in the middle who adapts
easily to either situation.
2) How do you handle change?
Most jobs these days have some elements of change to
them, but some are more than others. If you need stability in your life, you
may need a job where the changes don't happen so often. Other people would be
bored of the same daily routine.
3) Do you enjoy working with computers？
I do see this as a kind of personality characteristic.
There are people who are happy to spend more than 40 hours a week on a
computer, while there are others who need a lot of human interaction throughout
the day. Again, these are extremes and you'll likely find a lot of positions
somewhere in the middle as well.
4) What type of work environment do you enjoy？
This can range from being in a large building with a
lot of people you won't know immediately to a smaller setting where you'll get
to know almost all the people there fairly quickly.
5) How do you like to get paid?
Some people are motivated by the pay they get, while
others feel too stressed to be like that. The variety of payment designs in the
sales industry is a typical example for this.
Anyway, these are a great starting point for you. I've
seen it over and over again with people that they make more money over time
when they do something they love. It may take you a little longer, but making a
move to do what you have a passion for can change the course of your life for
the better.
1.Which of the following is TRUE according to the
passage?
A．Isolating
jobs usually drive people mad.
B．Interactive
jobs make people shy easily.
C．Extreme
people tend to work with others.
D．Almost
everyone has a tendency in jobs.
2.What does the underlined sentence in paragraph one
mean?
A. Before you select your job, you should assess your
skills and match them with your position
B. There are more important things than assessing
skills and match them with the position when you select job.
C. Nothing is important than assessing skills and
match them with the position when you select job.
D You should ignore your skills when you select
job.
3.What is the missing word about a job search in the
following chart?
A．Design. B．Changes. C．Cooperation. D．Hobbies.
4.What is the best title for this passage?
A．Lifestyles
and Job Pay B．Jobs and
Environment
C．Job Skills
and Abilities D．Personalities
and Jobs
