Aktywność zawodowa łódzkich trzydziestolatków w perspektywie kariery zawodowej w świetle analiz jakościowych
The Professional Activity of Lodz’s Thirty-Year-Old Persons with Regard to a Career in the Light of Qualitative Analyses

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the professional experience of young adults, which are analysed in the context of a professional career. The theoretical framework of the analysis consists of two theories of career, namely that of Edgar Schein and that of Donald Super, the latter of whom combines human professional development with role and situational factors. The studies were conducted in the qualitative paradigm with the use of individual case study method (quasi-biographical interview). The subject of analyses was the course of the professional experience of young adult residents of Łódź, who – demographically – were entering the stage of adulthood in the year of Poland’s accession to the EU, thus performing professional roles in the development of the market society in Poland at the turn of the century. The conducted analyses indicate that the professional careers of thirty-year-olds in Łódź are horizontal and in-depth, as well as are differentiated by gender and level of education, and the situation in families of origin at the stage of growing up. However, they also have shared characteristics. The professional paths of the respondents include a multitude of jobs and positions, which are usually unstable and insecure.

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