Factors that Affect Career Choices

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This paper discusses the diverse components that affect a person's experience with his/her respective job. It looks at the factors that affect choosing a particular career and how a person handles work stress. The paper also looks at the different factors that contribute to a person's decision-making ability and how he/she integrates different experiences in order to build his/her unique personality.

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"As those mentioned above, experience at work are affected by a person's age, gender, ethnicity, social class and by many others not mentioned. All of these affect one another. Life at work is characterized by diverse experiences, both negative and positive ones. And they all come together to build a well rounded person. Whether we let our age, gender or any other factor affect us negatively or positively will also depend on us. We could be flexible enough to accept the things we cannot change in ourselves, like our age, and work on those things we can still improve on, like our educational level."

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