Have you ever imagined your perfect life, well if that seems too big a task, have you ever imagined your perfect day ?
I mean this, mainly in terms of work. How would a typical work day look like if you were on the career path of your dreams ? Have you given it serious thought ?
Have you ever wondered what exactly you want or do not want from your life.
I have a couple of questions I want to ask you today, especially to those of who have no clue what they want to do in life.
First begin with what you don't want. That might help weed out a lot of unwanted choices and will ensure that you don't get stuck doing a job you hate ! Yes, ouch that hurts bad. So get started on this list.
All done okay so let's eliminate those career choices based on the fact that they involve doing something so loathsome that you know for sure you don't want to do it. I hope you have based your decisions on proper information from authentic resources i.e. people working in that field. But most of the time you won't need to talk to people in that field to know something you absolutely hate. E.g. "I am terrified of blood and needles so it was a no-brainer that I didn't want to be a surgeon." - Shruti
List down 3 things YOU DO NOT WANT IN YOUR CAREER.
E.g. Shruti's List:
- Blood and Needles (No Surgeon/Hospital related work)
- A lot of Boring Paperwork (No Banking/Accounts/Tax related work)
- Too much Physical Activity (No Agriculture/No Sports/No Travelling Jobs)
Okay now you know for sure what you don't want, lets get onto what you do want.
So in order to help you figure out what you really want from life, I have devised a list of questions.
Answer them honestly, take no more than 10 minutes for the entire exercise.
At the end of it all, you will have at least 50% clarity about your career. If you do this exercise sincerely, it can help you chalk out a career plan for yourself. And let's be honest not many people know what they want to be or do in life when they are barely 15 years old but there are many who do manage figure it out very early in life. Let's give it a try:
Assume - Money is not a constraint and Failure is impossible.
1) Imagine you are living your perfect life. How is your office ? What exactly are you doing ? How are your colleagues ? What kind of a work space is it ? How many hours do you spend commuting to your workplace ? What kind of perks you enjoy in the job ?
2) Imagine you are dead but can still see things on Earth as a ghost. You see your grave and on the stone are written these words... "Here lies........................................................"
What does your tombstone say about you ?
You can also imagine your obituary in the newspaper but that is too predictable hence I prefer this exercise to be done with the hypothetical Tombstone.
3) You have all the money in the world (You are a billionaire or gazillionaire, whatever spells 'all the money' in your dictionary) and you still have to work 8 hours everyday in order to not die of boredom. What would you be doing ? (The money you have in this scenario is not to be used for framing this answer, this money is all saved up for future use, the point is you are working but not merely for sustaining your life.)
What do you see yourself doing ?
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When you are done with the exercise, share your answers with a friend or a mentor. This will help you narrow down your career choices and eliminate the bad options for you.
This list will be different for different individuals so if you are doing this with your friends please don't expect all the lists to look the same.
Read my previous post on 'How to Figure out Your Career Path' here -
http://konikasharma.blogspot.in/p/take-career-quiz.html
You can also share your answers with me at <konikasharma1003@gmail.com> if you have trouble interpreting the answers on your own.
- TCM.
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