The Unemployed Life

How to Map Out Your Dream Job

Ah, recession…a perfect time for career reassessment. Especially when you get tossed out of our job and need to figure out your next move — but also when the economic shakeup makes you realize you’re not all that satisfied with your work.

We’re loving this handy chart from the book How to Keep Your Cool if You Lose Your Job. (Full-sized version below.)  You probably haven’t seen it, since author Kathryn Jackson lives in New Zealand. But it’s a wonderful way to visualize and measure all the different aspects of your work. (Or, if you’re not working, what your last position had or was lacking.) How much are you learning? Do you have enough work/life balance? How’s the financial reward?

The next step is really crucial: Think about and write down what each piece would look like in your idea work situation. Then use the map to either make changes in your current work situation OR help guide your job-hunting decisions. We’re working on ours right now…

Tags: advice, job-hunting, jobs, The Unemployed Life, The Working World