Book essay.

Finding and Heeding Your Calling Paper (optional—for extra credit only) --This assignment

may be especially useful for students who are “career confused” and/or are much clearer on what they do not want in a career than what they do want. While completing this assignment will not likely result in anyone achieving complete clarity on their career/life purpose, it may help you to move closer to that outcome. I certainly hope so.

Read the optional textbook (page 3 of this syllabus) and then write a paper of no more than 3 double-spaced pages using 12-point font. The paper needs to include the following elements:

1) Your key gifts. Describe the 3 to 5 gifts clearly and concisely, how you became aware of them, if and to what degree other trusted sources have affirmed they are in fact your gifts, and why you want to “Give them to the world.”

2) Your key passions. Describe the select few things that really energize you and then discuss possible ways you can honor these passions by incorporating them into your career.

3) Your key values. Discuss 3 to 5 values that you not only think you have but also the ones you consistently enact or wish to enact (walking your own talk) in your career. Provide brief scenarios you can envision where you are enacting these key values. If I was a fly on the wall in your scenarios, what would I see you doing that convey your underlying key values?

4) Which of the 52 callings in the book most closely captures what you think your calling is or may be at this point in time? Explain why you chose this one calling.

5) Which of the short stories in the book did you relate to the most? Why?

6) Which of the cab driver stories in the book captured your interest the most? Why?