 Health & Nutrition
Thoughts on
Aging
What is your Work Orientation? - August 25, 2011
(1 minutes: 33 seconds)
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Audio/Video Script:
Dr. LaVona Traywick
Assistant Professor - Gerontology
[Announcer] Welcome to Thoughts on Aging with Dr. LaVona Traywick,
Assistant Professor of Gerontology with the University of Arkansas Division of
Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service.
[Dr. LaVona Traywick] In Martin Seligaman’s book, Authentic
Happiness, he says there are three kinds of “work orientation:” a job, a
career, and a calling. You do a job for the paycheck at the end of
the week. A career entails deeper personal investment in work. You mark
your achievement through money, but also through advancement. A calling
(sometimes called a vocation) is a passionate commitment to do work for its
own sake. Individuals with a calling see their work as contributing to the
greater good, to something larger than they are.
So as you near retirement, what is your work orientation? If you are
contemplating going out and finding more work in your retirement, do you want a
job to keep you busy, a second career to carry you through another 20 years, or
are you ready to find your calling? Someone once said to me, work is play with a
purpose. I guess it’s time to work on that thought for today.
[Announcer] Thank you for listening to Thoughts on Aging with Dr. LaVona
Traywick. To learn more about this and other topics, contact your local county
Cooperative
Extension Service office.
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