Melissa spent 20 years in school to earn an advanced degree. She just started her first job and realized that what she was taught in school is not really the way that the career works. Melissa is experiencing

a. occupational expectations.
b. occupational reality.
c. reality shock.
d. career expectations.


ANSWER: c

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