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- Location/Life Style - What do you need in a location to thrive?
Examples:
- small town, big city
- affordable housing, fancy housing
- short commute, commute doesn't matter
- opera, museums, classical music venues, jazz clubs, major league sports
- close to family, far from family
- schools for kids, parks, bike trails, hiking trails, close to beach, skiing
- city experience with dense housing, suburban experience, rural environment
- cold weather, hot weather, don't mind if it rains or snows
- a college or university to continue studies
- cultural diversity and cultural associations, a welcoming religious community
- red state/blue state politics
- coffee houses, fine dining, fast food, great pizza, bookstores, shopping malls
Location/Life Style - What do you need in a
location to thrive?
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Things you must have
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Things you can't stand
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- People - What qualities do you need in the people you work with?
Examples:
- friendly and engaging people who help and support you with your work
- people who stick to themselves and leave you alone to do your own work
- people who are competent, smart, ambitious, lazy, intolerant, overbearing, uncooperative, neat, sloppy, fun, resentful, opinionated
- people who like to socialize and involve you in family and off-the-job activities, people who have their own lives away from work
- people you can go out with, people who can help you meet other people
- people with kids, people without kids
- people who like to dress up, people who are ok with casual dress
- people who like fine things, people with everyday tastes
- people with liberal politics, people with conservative views, people who have no views on politics, sports and religion
- people who go to lunch with others, people who bring their own lunch
- people who are talkative, people who are quiet
- people who are just like you or people who are refreshingly different.
People - What qualities do you need in the
people you work with?
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People you want to be with
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People you can't stand
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- Work Conditions - What do you need in your work environment to thrive?
Examples:
- corporate culture: clear mission, employee oriented, investor oriented, customer oriented, top down management, flat organizational structure with autonomy for employees
- set own goals, respond to the demands of managers
- stable operating conditions, constant crisis mode
- micro-managing supervisors, co-operative atmosphere, grateful customers, rude customers, no customer contact, frequent client contact
- flexible tasks and assignments, routine tasks, boring assignments, constant challenges, laid back atmosphere, tight deadlines, flexible goals
- frequent travel, constant communications
- working in teams, working alone, work with others, work in isolation
- training opportunities, no need for further training
- individual workspace, new equipment, cramped quarters, tiny cubicles, clean work space, cluttered space, windows, break rooms
- physical amenities, gymnasium, lunch room, catered lunches, ping-pong table
- bicycle lockers and showers, free parking
- in the city, out in the country
- indoors, outdoors
Work Conditions - What do you need in your
work environment to thrive?
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Things you must have or would really like
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Things you can't stand or don't need
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