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CP Assignment 2


 * 1) At [|CollegeinColorado], click on **Choices® career Explorer**, then click on the WORK tab.
 * 2) Just for fun, click on Chance to trust your future to the Career-O-Matic. Read the directions, then click on the red lever to automatically generate your future career. Try the Career-O-Matic 10 times then record your favorite result on a Google Document entitled Career Planning and make a section called Career-O-Matic Favorite. Please share this Google Document with the teacher.
 * 3) Click on Back to Work at the bottom of the page.
 * 4) If the phony careers didn’t convince you chance can be risky, let’s find a real career based on chance. At the bottom of the WORK page Click on the Alphabetical List link. Click the letter that is the first letter of your name. Use the day of your birth to count down the list of career titles. (For example, if you were born on August 16, count down 16 career titles.) If there are not enough career titles, continue counting back up the list until you reach your number. Imagine being in the career you just discovered for the rest of your life!
 * 5) Enter the career title on the Google Document "Career Planning" and title it Alpha Birth Date space, then rate the potential this career would have to make you happy on a scale of 1 to 10.
 * 6) What if chance found you both a type of work and a recreational interest? Choices Explorer has a Search tool at the top right of the screen. You can use it to search for anything contained in Choices Explorer, including a career.
 * 7) However, this search tool doesn’t know anything about you. Type your whole name into the search box ─ first, middle and last names. Look at the first item in the resulting list with a Careers icon next to it; chance has selected that for you as your job for the rest of your life! Enter that career title on the Google Document "Career Planning" and title it Name Career, then rate the potential this career would have to make you happy on a scale of 1 to 10.
 * 8) Let’s find out what chance would choose as a recreational focus to balance your chance career. On your search results page, you’ll see a link to advanced search. Click on it. Then choose to search Recreation and Volunteering. Whatever comes up at the top of the search list, chance has selected that as your recreational interest for the rest of your life! Enter that type of recreation on the Google Document with the title Name Recreation, then rate the potential this would have to make you happy on a scale of 1 to 10.
 * 9) Reflection: Deciding to take charge of your future sounds easy at first. You could say that you will be an astronaut, the CEO of a big company or a famous movie director. But saying it and actually doing it are quite different. Briefly describe what you think it will take to achieve careers or activities in which you’re interested – both those in and out of school and work.