Interests and Study Activities A narrowing of your work interests is implied in almost any transition from a study environment to managerial or professional work. In the humanities and social sciences you will at best reuse only a fraction of the material covered in three or four years' study. In most career paths academic knowledge only (51) a background to much more applied decision-making. Even with a 'training' form. of degree, (52) a few of the procedures or methods (53) in your studies are likely to be continuously relevant in your work. Partly this reflects the greater specialization of most work tasks compared (54) studying. Many graduates are not (55) with the variety involved in (56) from degree study in at least four or five subjects a year (57) very standardized job demands. Academic work values individual inventiveness, originality, and the cultivation of self-realization and self-development. Emphasis is placed (58) generating new ideas and knowledge, assembling (59) information to make a 'rational' decision, appreciating basic (60) and theories, and getting involved in fundamental controversies and debates. The humanistic values of higher (61) encourages the feeling of being engaged in a process with a self-developmental rhythm. (62) , even if your employers pursue enlightened personnel development (63) and invest heavily in 'human capital'—for example, by rotating graduate trainees to (64) their work experiences—you are still likely to notice and feel (65) about some major restrictions of your interests and activities compared with a study environment. (51)