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Should You Choose a Career Based on Your Values?
Values can help you understand what matters to you about work. But values do not answer every career question.
Values and career preferences
Someone who strongly values autonomy, stability, learning, service, excellence, creativity, or community may prefer different work environments.
Values still require other questions
Can I perform the work? Am I willing to develop the required skills? Do I find the actual work interesting enough? Are there realistic opportunities?
Values as alignment criteria
Values are best used as alignment criteria, not as the sole mechanism for choosing an occupation.
Better career decisions come from combining self-understanding with evidence about real opportunities.
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