Using Criteria
The first case that comes to mind when I think about using criteria, is that of a career. About two years ago I was faced with the decision to stay at a job that I was making decent money or to change to a lesser paying job that worked around my school schedule. I went through a lot of criteria to make my decision. I started off by weighing the positives and negatives in both situations. The reason that it was such a tough decision is because I knew that I would be getting married soon an I would not be finished with school when I was at that point in my life. I looked at the benefits that both situations presented me. The current job definetely payed more and it helped me save money at the present time. On the other hand it was sort of a “dead end job” that I could not advance in. The other job did not pay as much, but it allowed me to be in a better position in the long run. College was definitely (and still is) the only way to get somewhere in this world anymore. When looking at the difference that a college education has on a person financially, it was much better to choose that route than the current one, so I ended up going to the lesser paying job just to get an education. Whether that was a good decision or not, is yet to be seen, but I felt like an education was the better route. The only thing that scares me is the cost of college. It is unfortunate that college is so expensive, yet we are almost forced to go into the institutions to get jobs. I still think that I judged the criteria correctly though.