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What Makes People Compatible or Incompatible?

1.  Comfort Compatibility: Comfort Compatibility occurs when people find comfort and mutual understanding with another person.  Despite popular opinion, opposites do not always attract.  Opposite characteristics initially attract about as often as similar qualities attract. 

Rule #1a: With most areas of EQ, when opposites attract, there is an initial heightened interest in the person who is so different.  Yet, conflicts soon develop.  For example, a quiet, reserved person may initially find a sociable person to be exciting.  However, as time goes on they may find that the sociable person wants to talk more and participate with new people much more than the quiet person is comfortable with.  These differences cause natural conflict but may be resolved as each person is seen as contributing something unique and special to the relationship (team).  The sociable person can come to be seen as the spokesperson while the quiet person can be valued as one who does more low-profile or hands-on types of work. 

Rule #1b: Usually, people who have similar qualities feel less excitement at first but find more long-term comfort with each other.  Two hard working people both believe in staying on task and in doing a lot of work per day.  Two leisurely people both believe in taking their time and spending more time resting or playing. 

The rule above holds true for the qualities of:   energy, optimism, self-esteem, commitment to work, attention to detail, desire for change, courage, consideration, and sociability. 

Career Help from the U.S. Department of Labor:

Tomorrow's Jobs

Making informed career decisions requires reliable information about opportunities in the future. Opportunities result from the relationships between the population, labor force, and the demand for goods and services.

Population ultimately limits the size of the labor force—individuals working or looking for work—which constrains how much can be produced. Demand for various goods and services determines employment in the industries providing them. Occupational employment opportunities, in turn, result from demand for skills needed within specific industries. Opportunities for medical assistants and other healthcare occupations, for example, have surged in response to rapid growth in demand for health services.

Examining the past and projecting changes in these relationships is the foundation of the Occupational Outlook Program. This chapter presents highlights of Bureau of Labor Statistics projections of the labor force and occupational and industry employment that can help guide your career plans.

The long-term shift from goods-producing to service-providing employment is expected to continue. Service-providing industries are expected to account for approximately 18.7 million of the 18.9 million new wage and salary jobs generated over the 2004-14 period

Education and health services. This industry supersector is projected to grow faster, 30.6 percent, and add more jobs than any other industry supersector. About 3 out of every 10 new jobs created in the U.S. economy will be in either the healthcare and social assistance or private educational services sectors.............................

To read the rest of this career help article, click on this link: http://www.bls.gov/oco/oco2003.htm 

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