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Testing the Waters

14. Intellectual challenge
15. Lots of leisure time with family, friends, hobbies, and travel
16. Low stress
17. Possibility for very high earnings and/or commissions and
bonuses
18. Power, influence, and authority
19. Routine
20. Spiritual satisfaction
21. Steady income

My top six satisfiers:

1. ___________________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________________
6. ___________________________________________________

The Transferable Skills and Satisfiers Grid
In the next step in this exercise, you’ll combine the information
you have gathered so far. It’s called the “transferable skills and sat-
isfiers grid.” I have adapted it from the work of Howard Figler in
the Complete Job Search Handbook.
This assignment is exciting because it synthesizes the qualita-
tive information we’ve gathered in this and the previous chapter
and provides a subjective but quantitative look at how the pieces of
your career puzzle fit together.
Finally, you’ll have information that can influence your choice
of one career over the other two, and a starting point to put every-
thing you’ve learned into action in the following chapters.

1. Make a chart that looks like the one that follows. List your
three job titles at the top of the chart. Number the jobs 1,
2, and 3 not in any particular order of preference.

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