Career vs. Job Timeline

You can start your career right now. Or you can keep jumping from job to job. Learn how your choices affect how much you might get paid.

Where Can Career Planning Take You?

Two people go to work every day. They both change jobs in the next few years. One person has a career plan. The other person does not have a plan. Look at the charts below. Which person has a career?

	Two Years Ago	One Year Ago	Today
Person A	Taking English classes at ABE Center Working at a restaurant cleaning tables and helped the servers $6.15/hour Decides to find out how to get skills for better paying jobs in restaurants	Took the ServSafe Certification and passed Promoted to kitchen helper $8.50/hour	Finished English classes Promoted to assistant cook $10/hour
Person B	Taking English classes at ABE Center Working at a restaurant cleaning tables and helped the servers $6.15/hour Wants a job that pays more money	Quit the job at the restaurant Working in a manufacturing factory $9/hour	Laid off from the factory job Working as janitor $7/hour

Wages for two people. One has a career plan. The other does not.

Take this quiz to find out how much you learned from this career timeline.

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