How to choose a career

Choosing a career is a very crucial decision on which our whole life depends. It determines what will you do for the 2/3rd part of our lives. Many factors are taken into consideration while choosing a career as our identity, goals, perspectives, success, fulfilment, and our long term happiness. Today, I will tell you how to choose a career.

Everyone has a different opinion and perspectives when it comes to choosing the right career. These perspectives depend upon their priorities in life. Some people say you should do what you love to do which means follow your passion. Many of them say to choose something that gives you a lot of money. A few of them say you should choose a career which gives you a balance of both money and fulfilment.

Money is of no use without contentment or peace of mind. What good an imported velvet fabric would be if you are unable to sleep or relax on it as your mind is constantly buzzing with restless thoughts.

My opinion of choosing a career would be to find something which gives you a stronger purpose in life, something which challenges you to get better every day and motivates you to wake up from the bed. This will allow you to stay motivated and work for longer hours. In this scenario, the money will automatically flow since you are good at it and constantly yearn to improve yourself every day.

Many career advisors guide you, assess you, in your quest in choosing a career. Below are steps to which career advisors guide us on how to choose a career.

The Steps to choose a career:

• Assess yourself
• Make a list of occupations to explore
• Conduct informational interviews
• Make your career choice
• Identify your goals
• Write a career action plan

Choosing the right career path

Many people choose the wrong career or fail to choose even after following all the steps in the right manner. This is because their interests and goals keep on changing. The list of occupations also changes so thereby changing the whole career plan.

The main reason this happens is due to a lack of awareness. People do not know much about themselves, their choices. What gives them freedom, which gives them real and long term happiness. We keep on chasing unimportant and materialistic things in life due to which many people get to know this in the later stage of life that what is something that they want, what gives them inner happiness?

Jack Ma’s Advice

In this article, I will tell you Jack Ma’s advice for young people. He tells how to choose a career in different stages of life.

Jack Ma says Youngsters are the answers for tomorrow. Youngsters are the answers to all the worries. If you stay with young people you will feel exuberant and dynamic. The advice I give to young people is the advice I give to myself that nothing is free.

You have to pay the cost if you want to be successful. I worked a lot harder in these 18 years to bring Alibaba to where it is now. Jack and his team never have a full night sleep. He voyaged 867 hours last year into the plane. You need to think uniquely and differently from what others think.

In the early days of my organization if someone comes to me saying “Jack this is an extraordinary idea ” and if everyone accepts that this is a great idea, I put that idea into the trash. If everybody says this idea is going to be extremely intense, I’m exceptionally intrigued by that extreme question and I get and state, “How might we do it alternately?” This is to be unique, to be different.

The third advice I say to myself is Today is extreme, tomorrow is tougher, the day after tomorrow is delightful. You have to work very hard, every tough day, every tough situation, problems you meet, that is the training of yourself.

When you get a PhD diploma, a bachelor’s degree, this is just a certificate for which your parents paid the fees. The real challenge appears when you leave college, the real-life starts, that is the real exam.

Advice for the young!

Advice for the people at different stages of life(age):

• 20–30 years: Find a good boss, not necessarily a good company, gain from the boss, figure how to do it.
• 30–40 years: Attempt to do something yourself, something you want to do.
• 40–50 years: Do something you are good at, after 20 years of learning you should do something you’re good at.
• 50–60 years: Spend your time supporting youngsters. Because youngsters have a massive amount of energy so they can do a lot of things. By providing them with the knowledge and experience you gained you can make them 10x better.
• Over 60 years: Spend time with your grandkids. Most of the people like that in this age.

So when you are an alumnus or when you are just in the college, don’t consider, “I need to leave the school and be another Bill Gates, since Bill Gates left Harvard.” There’s just one Bill Gates on the planet.

At the point when you graduate discover a company, most significant find a good boss, that can educate you, discipline you. Mention to you what is good and right. It’s a higher priority than a decent organization. A decent organization, a good boss even better. And then, continue your life. It’s all about a partner.

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