Career Strengths and Weaknesses (read the definitions first)

[Sol_Itaire]

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Strength - an activity that makes you feel invigorated. It's not necessarily something you are good at or what people tell you you are good at. IKAW RA NAKABALO kay ikaw man ang mobati ani. You look forward to doing it, you are so focused when doing it, and you get satisfaction/fulfillment from doing it.

Complete the sentence "I feel invigorated when I (verb)...."

Weakness - an activity that weakens you. Even if you are good at it, you are drained by it. the exact opposite of strength.

Complete the sentence "I feel weakened when I (verb)...."


These are Marcus Buckingham's definitions. Take his free career intervention workshop at:
Marcus Buckingham's Career Intervention - Oprah.com


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My own examples are:

I feel invigorated when I work at my own pace. (di kaayu ko ganahan og fixed work sched.)
I feel weakened when I commute to work. (i just hate wasting time commuting to and from work. just hate it!)

[Weena]

I feel invigorated when I work alone. (i prefer working alone with no supervision)
I feel weakened when I work full 8 hrs. (mag migraine gyud ko)

[niccolai]

..invigorated when the work is challenging and happy.
..weakend when i cant seem to catch up.

[Sol_Itaire]

I feel invigorated when I read, read, read.
I feel weakened when I sell a product I don't really believe in.

[christa]

I feel invigorated when I work with something real time.. i like pressure..
I feel weakened.. when there is nothing productive to do.. i hate slacking around..

[vienzel]

I feel invigorated when i see different people around me at work.
I feel weakend when there is a lot of work area politics around.

[Sol_Itaire]

I feel invigorated when I give excellent customer service (going the extra mile).

Conversely, I feel weakened when I am unable to give that. It's either there are no resources provided or there's a lack of skills/knowledge on my part with which to solve the customer's problem.

An example would be working as customer rep for an internet service provider. ma stressed out jud ko kung ang rason nga ihatag nako sa caller kay "eh ma'am, sorry po kasi may network restoration po sa area ninyo..." GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrr I totally hate that! I hate getting that answer and I would hate the job so much if most of the time I'm giving that LOUSY answer. mo mundang jud ko sa wai oras. Grrrrrrrr

[bhason]

I feel invigorated when I am working in a friendly and positive environment.

I feel weakened when I feel stressed and not doing something positive.

[Sol_Itaire]

invigorated when i do some research and planning
weakened when i do something that i think is useless

[beyee]

I feel invigorated when I work with kids. (I feel fulfilled when I see progress in them.)

I feel weakened when I work on a time-frame. (I hate time pressure since medyo maypagka OC ko)