career-journal-mod2week2.md

1. Power of self-reflection

• What is challenging about self-reflection?

  • For me I think it is talking about myself. I am not usually a person who likes to talk about myself.

• How can you continue to build the habit of self-reflection at Turing?

  • I can continue to learn to reflect on myself and say that this is a process for growth and think that when I grow as a person, I can grow professionally as well.

2. Social identity mapping

First, create you own social identity map on a piece of paper (or print this out):

• Outer ring: write words that describe your given identity
• Middle ring: list aspects of your chosen identity
• Center: write your core attributes—traits, behaviors, beliefs, values, characteristics, and skills that you think make you unique as an individual. Select things that are enduring and key to who you are.

After you complete your map:

• Underline the items that are important to you
• Put a + beside the items that you believe clearly demonstrate that you fit into the tech industry
• Put a - beside the items that you believe do not demonstrate that you fit into the tech industry
• Put a ? beside the items that you’re unsure how they could show your ability to contribute to the tech industry

Reflect:

• What does your social identity tell you about what you already bring to the tech industry?
  • That I am Asian-American and that I am driven.
• What would it look like for some of your minuses or question marks to turn into pluses? In other words, how could some of these traits be assets for the tech industry?
  • I think that what I am bringing in is a new set of eyes with different values then the norm and that could push more boundries. I am also very detailed and a perfectionist in whatever work I do.

1. Values mapping Pull out 5 values for each bullet below from this list:

• Always valued: Accomplishment, Respect, Ethics, Hard Work, Optimism,
• Often valued: Accountability, Balance, Diversity, Fun, Loyalty
• Sometimes valued: Adventure, Harmony, Health & Fitness, Influence, Fun
• Seldom valued: Ambition, Confidence, Personal Power, Location, Making money

Reflect:

• What do these values tell you about yourself?
  • These values tells me that I value a postive outlook on life and that what we make of our life is up tp us. My values also show me that I have little faith in myself as a person and that I value relationships more than I would value myself. It shows me that my strengths are working with others and working as hard as I can in what I do, but it also shows my weakness of how I don't have enough value in myself. (I think I am repeating myself)

1. Workview & Lifeview

• Summarize what good, worthwhile work means to you (Tip: this is NOT about what work you want to do but about why work matters to you):

• Lifeview: summarize what you value in life; what matters to you?

  • What matters most to me in my life are my family and the people I am closest to. I also vaule the work that we put in our life is what we make of it.

• Where do your views on work and life complement each other?

  • My views on work and life complement each other by making what I want out from it, so if I want a certain experience then I need to put myself out there.

• Where do they clash?

  • They could clash if I priotize one over the other.

• Does one drive the other? How?

  • I think one does drive the other because if my family and close ones are the most important to me then I need to have a way where I can take care of them in this world.