what they seem: does that mean an hour less spent with your friends, partner, or family? Does it mean an hour less sleep? These can be difficult things to quantify and hard to look at when you do, but it’s important that you are honest and open-eyed.

Applying Your Framework
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Once you have identified your values, and created a list of questions that can help you analyze opportunities that come along, you’re ready to start applying this framework. Below, I discuss two brief examples of using the evaluation questions in the previous question to specific situations that arose for me (and may arise for the reader).

### What jobs should I apply for?

As I previously mentioned, my first few rounds of the job slog, I applied for literally everything under the sun. I spent a lot of my own time writing applications for places of dubious fit for me, and perhaps worse I also wasted the time of my letter writers, and of the people on the other end reading the applications. It wasn’t until my last time on the job market that I decided to approach my search with a different tactic. My last round of applications 