Bloch Article

As far as class last Wednesday, I really enjoyed doing the pie charts that dealt with Super’s Life Span, Life Space Theory. I think that examining where our biggest amounts of time are spent now and where we want our biggest amounts of time to be spent ten years from now is very interesting to look at. I found that my two charts were significantly different in the fact that I spend most of my time now at school and at work and have little time to spend with my family. Seeing this on paper reiterated the fact that I need to do something different in order to make more time for my family because I enjoy how close we are and I don’t want that relationship to dwindle. In the future, my goal is to work while my kid/s are at school in order to be able to have a close-knit family of my own.

I also thought that Super’s Stages were pretty in line with how a typical human goes through career development stages (Notes). Looking back at my own growth, I pretty much followed Super’s Model. The only stage that I question would be his “Decline (pre-retirement) stage (Notes). Personally, I don’t think that I am the type of person who would go into a job and do minimal work at my job. Now this idea may change as I age, but I have grown up in a house where I was taught that if I were going to do something, I would do it right and to the best of my ability.

In Bloch’s article (Bloch, 2005), the characteristics of the entities stood out to me. I liked that careers intertwined with the individual and the surrounding networks in order to operate effectively and that each of the specific entities affected another (Bloch, 2005). I also liked the idea of phase transitions between order and chaos (Bloch, 2005). This characteristic reiterates the idea that a person must move out of their orderly ways, which may create some chaos in their life, but will also allow them to change, if they want to.

Bloch (2005) also expressed seven connectors between spirit and work. Personally, I thought that these connectors could be applied to life in general. The connectors allow a person to be honest and true to their beliefs and values. The connectors could lead the client to a career that they will succeed in based on the high satisfaction level the seven connectors suggest.

           

Reference:

Bloch, D.P. (2005). Complexity, Chaos, and Nonlinear Dynamics: A New Perspective on Career Development Theory. The Career Development Quarterly. 53. 194-205.