CHAPTER 1 A BUTTERFLY FLAPS ITS WINGS AND YOU FIND A JOB: Chaos and Your Career Plans.

"Whatever your reason for pursing your major, you like many others, are probably struggling with THE QUESTIONS: What do I do with this degree? Where is my linear path?"

I think that this is a very good fragment of the Chapter 1 because it makes you to think about your major, skills you posses which fit into the workplace, and the relationship between them. Everyone before planing a career should answer yourself these two questions to make sure that the major and your future job reflect what you really would like to do in your life.


"For instance, if you use traditional deductive reasoning, where you start with one personal trait and expand it to a career factor, you might follow this logical train of thought:

- Pilots must have strong attention to detail.

-I have strong attention to detail.

-I should be a pilot."


According to the traditional linear thinking and reasoning, I think that this is very simple way to determine what type of skills you posses and if you can apply them to your future job. One of the challenges of this type of career planning is that if one statement is inaccurate, then the reasoning falls apart. So if your skills and interests have nothing in common with your major or a job that you would like to perform in a future, then you should really consider changing your major.



"Chaos theory helps us predict the outcome of complex situation by asking us to assess what we currently know, what we cannot know, and what we can learn. Then we can make reasonable choices based on that information. So instead of trying to predict a future you can't see, you can start your career planning by focusing on what know right now, what you don't know and what you can learn"


As far as chaos theory is considered, I think that this theory can give you a better understanding how to plan your career that will result in a future success. It also may help you to determine what you already know or what you should learn and find the connection between your interests and success. You can easily apply the information that you already know about yourself, apply to your future career and predict if your future career would make you satisfied.