Mary Caroline Funk

Journal Entry 2

1. Discuss the first seven chapters of Krumboltz, Luck Is No Accident.

- The first seven chapters discuss how your career is not set from the beginning
and everything can change. It encourages its readers to keep their options open
and be alert to the things that you might see as a not so positive thing, because
they can ultimately become extremely positive in your career path. It encourages
the readers to be open minded about career choices and even if it is not exactly
what you want to do, it can ultimately help you in the future.
2. How do you understand the message of Chapter 1-3? How does this relate to your
current thinking?
- The first chapters focus a lot on being open to change, circumstances, and not doing
what you have your mind set on as your job. That relates to my current thinking because
I don’t really have that much of an open mind when thinking about a possible career
and my future as a whole. It’s saying that if you stay open to other things, then you can
end up having really cool opportunities with different forms of change.

3. Please discuss the “suggestions” given in Chapter 2. Which three are most relevant to
your current thinking about options in the world of work?
- The title of chapter 2 is “always keep your options open,” which in itself is a
great suggestion and something to continue to keep in mind. The first one that
stands out to me is to avoid tunnel vision, meaning to keep an open mind and
keep your options open because you never know what will happen in the future
and what opportunities you might have.
- Second is to remember that you don’t have to do what you said you would do. It
is easy to feel like your career is locked in with your major, but it isn’t, and it is
really easy to learn how to do many other jobs.
- Lastly, I like how it says you don’t need to commit to a future goal. It talks about
how if you have a goal and you do that, you don’t have to be locked into it for
the rest of your life. If you don’t like it, then don’t do it. That’s good to add on to
with the second goal of not having to do what you said you would do. It takes
the pressure off of deciding what you want to do at age 19.
4. What is most important to you in Chapters 6 and 7?
- The part that stood out to me is the concept that of what I can be doing now to
positively impact my future. It talks about taking advantage of opportunities
around me and continuing to realize that my hard work will pay off later. It’s a
good reminder to continue to realize that it will be a positive thing later in my
life. It also talked about being okay with rejection and failure. I needed to be
reminded of this so that I can keep trying new things as I am thinking what I am
going to minor in. Also encouraged me to continue to think about every
experience as a place to learn something new and improve.
5. Explain Happenstance Career theory as understood from reading to one of your adult
fans.
 - In order to not be in trouble when bad circumstances happen in your life, the
book encourages you to make the most of the unplanned events, to keep your
options open, and to try different things, even if the outcome isn’t what you
expect. It encourages you to just go for the job because sometimes it will
ultimately be really great.
6. Interview a significant adult (adult fan) about their career pattern, decision points,
actions taken and interplay of happenstance in career path if relevant.
- My mom said that although she is a physical therapist, she worked on Capital Hill
for one summer. This job helped her to learn all things politics and taught her
basically all that she knows about politics. Although she was not interested in
politics it really has helped her in the future.
7. Resources: share one of the career exploration or career information resources with this
same adult fan; record their response
- My mom said that she encourages me to continue to keep my options open and
explore what I might be good at. She said that I should continue talking to people
of all kinds of careers in different fields relating to what I am interested in and
things that I am not interested in.