Assignment task:
1. Collect evidence. Here is a list of assumptions about success in a career. Read the list and decide which are generally true and which are generally false?
True or False
- Most people are overworked because of the nature of their job.
- A recreation job is unique and not subject to repetitive time patterns.
- Managing time better is essentially a matter of reducing time spent on certain activities.
- Your job deals with people, and because people are important, you cannot establish task priorities.
- The busy and active people who work the hardest are the ones who get the best results.
- It is not necessary to write out your goals.
- Most of the results you achieve are produced by a few critical activities.
2. Reflect on the meaning and relevance of the evidence. Discuss your decisions to the questionnaire above with classmates and professionals working in the recreation fields. For example, you could hold a panel discussion in class. Based on your understanding of this chapter, be able to defend your opinions? Then compare your ideas with the generally considered correct responses: all are false except for the last one?
3. Organize the evidence in a meaningful way. Summarize your responses and your discussions by writing a position paper on managing for a successful career in the leisure field?