Talk
with your conversation partners about your experience and/or plans for a
career. A career is a profession or job
that you train for and get experience in over several years.
1. Choice of Career - How did you
choose a career? Or have you made a
choice? What options did you
consider? What were important factors
in your choice of career? How important
was the expected salary? Did you ask
other people for advice before you made a decision?
2. Change in Career - Have you
ever changed careers or career training in your life? If you are an immigrant, talk about the change in career when you
moved from your native country to the U.S.
Is your career choice dependent on knowing a foreign language very well?
3. Career Traditions - Consider
how careers change from generation to generation. My mother had only two career choices in 1938 - nursing or
teaching. She chose nursing. Today, my son & daughter have many kinds
of career to choose from. How are your
choices different from your parent’s choices?
4. Work & Happiness - How
important is work? If you had plenty of
money and never had to work, would you be happy? Why or why not? My
grandfather worked until he was in his 80’s.
He didn’t want to retire. Is it
important to have work to do after you retire?
Why or why not?
5. Career Parenting - Do you
consider being a parent a kind of career?
Why or why not? How about being
a husband or wife? Sometimes homemakers
feel that their work is not respected.
Yet homemakers work very hard and do very important work – making a
home, and raising children. Do you
think homemakers should be respected and appreciated more? How could this happen?
This quote is from a letter from a church leader written in the 1st
century. What do you think of his
advice?
“You know how you should follow
our example. We worked when we were
with you. We didn’t eat anyone’s food
without paying for it. In fact, it was
just the opposite. We worked night and
day. We worked very hard so that we
wouldn’t cause any expense to you.
“We worked even though we have the
right to receive help from you. We did
it in order to be a model for you to follow.
Even when we were with you, we gave you a rule. We said, “Anyone who will not work will not
eat.”
“We hear that some people among
you don’t want to work. They aren’t
really busy. Instead, they are
bothering others. We belong to the Lord
Jesus Christ. So we strongly command
people like that to settle down. They
have to earn the food they eat.”
2 Thessalonians 3:7-12