Blog 4

          

This week’s reading was very interesting to me.  I am glad I could connect to the different approaches that I read.  Being able to connect made reading a whole lot better.  I was able to understand better and gain additional knowledge that way.  Savickas (1995) mentioned “Indecision as a Unidimensional Continuum”.  I could find myself relating heavily on this.  I think it is important when career counseling an individual you can see where they fall on the continuum. Having a client respond, “Yes” or “No” to career choices could be hard to depict.  A client could “kind of” interested in a certain field but still could not be sure.  Having this continue of “Undecided” to “Decided” could give variety and lean way on careers.  If they are in the middle they could be a candidate for more exploratory careers. This continuum also helps identify any hardships a client could be feeling that prevents them from making that career decision.

            I also liked the section of the article that Savickas (1995) mentioned that “Indecision as a Subjective Experience.”  It was not until I responded to a few classmates about their post and there was one student who wrote a response that triggered and automatic relation.  The student had mentioned that she thought of the subjective experience to her own as her starting and beginning her new “big girl” job and how she was losing who she was after graduation.  It was like a letting go moment.  I could relate heavily to this experience.  I do not have a salary job but I do have a Graduate Assistantship at Academic Advisement and Student Development.  I consider it a “pre” school counseling job.  I do similar work but not as extensive.  After graduation I did not see graduating as loosing me until this student from my class did.  I did have to let go of who I was during my undergraduate years to become this professional character in these students life.  I see it carrying over to my daily living as well.  I am finding and create who I am all over again and that is part of the transformation process that the subjective experience that Savickas (1995) mentions.  I am forming this new identity and it does, at times, leave me indecisive on a few decisions.  It made it all real reading over this article and reading over what my peers experienced. 

Savickas, M. L. (1995). Constructivist Counseling for Career Indecision. The Career Development Quarterly, 43(4), 363-373. doi:10.1002/j.2161-0045.1995.tb00441.x