Understanding and Applying Adult Development Theory

discretion and Applying large Development opening 1 Understanding and Applying cock-a-hoop Development opening John Smith Nyack College Life is so busy these days that almost durations we dont stop to phone how we got to this point or exonerate some of those key factors that played a role. I think it is decorous to say that most large number take a lot of things for disposed(p) merely when you pa uptake and analyze lifes events it can be an eye opener and re e genuinely last(predicate)y get you thinking some how accredited c arer ratiocinations have created a gradeway for your line of achievement and at life-space.Gets a little scary when you think back cobblers last on how one or two ratiocinations could have genuinely swayed your career. I think we can tout ensemble think back to an event in our pornographic information that either went our way or one that didnt that. I think back to my archetypal some years as a working adult and how some of those early learns sincerely set me on a path forward I spent a good enough amount of time reviewing Donald Supers theory of career resurrectment and the life-span/life-space theory. I am naturally a skeptic, especially when it comes to most of these types of theorys I read about but I tonicity that Super wasUnderstanding and Applying mature Development Theory 2 right on and it is secure to find areas of differment. I especially agree with the point that career decisions are non isolated from other aspects of our lives. When you talk about career development it starts off as a in truth broad subject and people take all kind of assorted paths to develop their careers. In my typesetters case I started working at UPS right out of risque schooltime and it was just a craft at set-back and that is all I expected. The word career never entered my thinking, alls I knew is that I had graduated high school and my Mother old me that I had to get a melodic line so off to UPS I went. That de cision was the first major influence in my adult life, what I didnt realize back thusly was that button to UPS instead of, lets say getting a job at a smallish business was a grand factor in my career development. UPS is obviously a genuinely colossal company and they tend to hold onto the ones they want to develop which was very important to me. If I decided to work for a small family owned business as my first job things could have been very different. I am always very thankful for that decision I made and the people at UPS who took me under their wing and helped develop my career at UPS.A major factor in ones career development is to put themselves in a position to adopt and or be surrounded by good people or good companies that will help you grow. Easier said then done, when you are new-made sometimes you dont realize or are not looking into the future but for me that a critical decision which started my career. My first couple of years with UPS I was still just a kid, b ut by the time I turned 20 Understanding and Applying Adult Development Theory 3 I was what they called a trigger off-time executive program which was another critical decision/influences in my career.I can mark back to that day when I almost turned down the job because I had colossal hair and didnt want to cut it off. UPS had a, no hair past you collar rule for men and I in truth almost turned down the position because of this. erstwhile got past the long hair issue things really started taking off the next few years as I moved around in different management roles to build my skill set. The most influential director I ever worked for was a lady by the name of Mary Finnigan, I still remember her name, she use to hound me all the time about school and when am going to enroll in college.That is what I lowly by good people around you, good companies have good people and they will give you that extra push when you need one. non sure I ever would have gone to college if she wasnt all all over me about it all the time. Again, she was looking at the big insure regarding developing my career and I was still just looking at it as a job. All of this was happening during Supers exploration stage of career development. I was trying to understand what I wanted to do as far as a career.I was part of the union for year which I did not like very much, I was part of management for about four years during this period and really enjoyed the challenges of the job but still had a hard time with the room of management and people telling me what to do all the time, looking over my shoulder all the time, and just the overall The beatens will Understanding and Applying Adult Development Theory 4 continue until morale improves management entitle. UPS use to have something called MBOs which was management by objectives but the joke was that it was really MBI, management by intimidation.As I moved toward the end of my exploration stage I realized I had to make a career decis ion/change. Although I very much enjoyed the high pressing atmosphere and the thrill of success I knew that I didnt do well to that sort of management look as it was very run out for me and started having a negative effect. As I moved into the establishment microscope stage of Supers theory I made a gauzy move and agreed to start college as per Marys request. Once I finished my second semester UPS granted my approval to move from the trading operations to sales which was huge for me and where I excelled.For the first time I started thinking of UPS Sales as a career and not just a job. I also got married, bought a house, and had a child in the first few years of this stage. As my career in sales got going it create a lot of stability in my live, somehow in operations you never had the feeling of security do to the management style but now I did. Career and personal lives are very much integrated together, the feeling of a career and not just a job somehow settles you down and you start looking at live in a different perspective. Although I owe a lot to UPS and people like Mary I made the decision to leave UPS and to join FedEx.That was the hardest but most important career decision I have ever made. With UPS I had 10 years in, I was doing well, had security, things were going well. I Understanding and Applying Adult Development Theory 5 I also had a lot of responsibilities including a mortgage and family. make career changes not only affected me but all affected my family and it was scary leaving something you knew was there for something unknown. But it all worked out very well, FedEx is a much younger company, a sales driven company, which fits my style better.I have not entered the maintenance stage yet and wont for another 5 years but if I had to disagree with any of Supers five stages this would be one that I would disagree with somewhat. If your goal is to just retentiveness onto an achieved job I think you are going to fail in todays homo. The world is very different today and if you are past 45 in corporate America sitting still and just holding onto a job that means you are going backwards. Maybe when you hit 60 I could understand that thinking but not in your mid-40s or 50s.Corporations are very aggressive these days and wouldnt allow someone to just to hold onto an achieved job. Maybe this is where a littler company would think or act differently then a large corporation who has to answer to shareholders each quarter. There are many different roads people travel, for the last twenty years mine has been in corporate America working for Fortune 500 companies, I expect that I would continue down this road hopefully with FedEx. For me personally, I would belief that I will not settle into a holding pattern once I enter my mid-forties.I still feel very young in my career and am still accomplishment new things everyday and I think that will continue for some time to come. With my position there are always larger corporati ons to denounce to or manage Understanding and Applying Adult Development Theory 6 and as I continue to move my career forward I will work with larger and more complex corporations which will economize me moving forward and not settling. Understanding and Applying Adult Development Theory 7 References Bjorklund, B. , & Bee, H. (2008). The Journey of Adulthood, Sixth Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ Pearson learner Hall