Career development advice: aligning career with your values/worldview

This essay continues on from part 1, where we discussed developing your own values system/worldview, which is fundamental to today’s next step of exploring your career development options.

How our values systems and worldview motivate our career choices

Let’s say that the following are values and world views that have guided your career decisions thus far in life, instilled by high-achieving or immigrant parents, being socialized in a business school and then the business world, and through positive reinforcement for high marks in school and work:

Values

• Growth, ambition, achievement, status, comparison

Worldview:

• I need to become a millionaire to prove I made it in life
• If I can’t become a director or higher-ranking senior leader, my career will be a failure
• I have to work as many hours a week as I need to in order to advance my career
• I should never make less than what I currently do
• I can’t take time off from work, because future employers will look down on that