Does the Money Buy the Week?

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How this works

The career you're leaning toward. Both careers and their money picture carry in from Run the Numbers. Pick one.
The week you want. Seven rows that have to add up to 168, copied from the ten years out column you built in My Definition of Success. Then the shape of a normal work week in that career, from your research sheet.
Where they fight. The tool lays your wanted week next to the week the career actually asks for, and the money you'd have left next to what you said you want it for. It names the tension lines. It doesn't decide anything.
Your reflection. Three written parts. Build, Copy, paste once into the Lifestyle Fit Reflection box in Canvas.

Do your work on the Canvas page itself. Chrome keeps a tool's saved work separate when it's opened in its own tab.

Part 1

The career you're leaning toward

Not a decision. A lean. You're testing one career against the life you described, and you can come back and run the other one.

Why that one, in a line? The number or the fact that's pulling you right now.

Part 2

The week you want, and the week the career asks for

Everybody gets 168 hours. Open your My Definition of Success submission and copy the ten years out column into these seven rows. If your rows were named differently, fold them into the closest one. The total has to hit 168, same rule as before.

Do this: fill the seven rows until the total reads 168. Then, below, describe a normal work week in the career you picked: hours, commute, and the shift pattern your research sheet or the postings showed.

The week you want, about ten years from now

A normal work week in this career

Paid hours a week Full time is 40. Nurses on three twelves are 36. Teachers at contract are 40 but work more. Use the schedule row from your research sheet or a posting.

Commute, minutes one way To the kind of place this job is actually done, from where you'd live. 0 if remote.

Unpaid hours it eats Grading, charting after shift, on call, studying for a license. Your honest estimate. 0 is fine.

Shift pattern

Where you got the work week from The schedule row on your research sheet, a posting, the OOH Work Environment section, a person.

Part 3

Where the week and the money fight

Two bars. The top one is the week you said you want. The bottom one is that same week with this career's real work hours, commute, and unpaid time dropped in. Whatever got squeezed is where the tension is. Then the money, read the same way.

Part 4

Your reflection

Three parts, a solid paragraph each, in your own words. Point at the bars and the numbers above. Yes, no, partly, and "it's complicated" all earn full credit when the reasoning is yours.

1. Does the money buy the week? Hold the "left after bills and the loan" figure up against what you said success looks like: where you live, how you spend your time, who's around you. Name what's covered and what isn't. 2. The loan and the first years. What does the payment do to the first three to five years in this career? If you'd borrow nothing, say what that frees up and what it cost you to avoid it. 3. The tradeoff you'd make, and the number that would change your mind. Name one tradeoff you'd actually accept (less money for a schedule, more debt for a ceiling, a longer commute for a shorter path). Then name a figure: a salary, a monthly left over, a loan payment, a commute, that would flip your answer.

Build it, copy it, turn it in

Build writes the career you picked, your wanted week and the career's week side by side, the money figures, the tension lines the tool named, and your three written parts as plain text.

Do this: press Build, read it once, press Copy, then paste into the box on the Lifestyle Fit Reflection assignment page in Canvas.

Moving my work another way (a code instead of a file)

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