Tips for finding work you love is
must read for all, specifically, those who are dissatisfied with their
current work, job, profession or vocation. Read these tips and find new
direction.
Throughout our life
we come across not one but thousands of people who does not like what
they are doing. From their face expression, from their body languages,
from their way of work, from their way of interaction, from their every
single behavior no matter how small or big it is, we can easily found
that the person does not like what he/she is doing.
Why it happens?
There
are many reasons but some of the obvious reason may be, First, from
childhood choice of the career imposed by the parents and in adult life
it became quite difficult to switch on any other profile, so, except
lifting the burden of it no alternative or option remains available, so,
people continuously do it. Second, many a times despite of reaching up
to the mature age person may not be able to decide what actually he/she
likes to do, so they are in constant dilemma or in move from one job to
another job, or one business to another business. Third, person is quite
clear in mind but there are some constraints which stops them to take
the plunge, like fear of failure, nature of profession, resistance from
family, financial calculations, lack of opportunity in the desired field
are some of the reasons which compel the person to remain in non
favorite job or profession.
Why it is important to find out the work you like or job you like to do?
“Your
work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be
truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only
way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it
yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart,
you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just
gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you
find it. Don’t settle.”- Steve Jobs in his 2005 Stanford commencement address.
If you are one of the person who are in constant quest of finding your
true calling, here, we have brainstorm few ideas which may ignite your
passion, suggest you the way, show you the path towards your true
calling.
1. INITIALLY IT HAPPENS WITH MOST OF US
Many
a times we even don’t know from where our career began. During college
internship you associated with one organization, you did your project
and there you employed, your career began. During summer project, to
kill the time, to earn the pocket money, to earn the experience you
accepted some low paying job and later on you stuck with it, your career
began. After completing your education, your financial condition was
not up to the mark and your chosen field was no more able to provide you
bread and butter, so, for sustaining life, for maintaining your
livelihood, for fulfilling your basic necessity, you were suppose to
earn some money and you accepted that job and later, life never allowed
you to left the job and still after years and decades still you are
doing the same job with upset mind.
Yes,
we may be one of them, because, to do what you like to do is completely
theoretical terms and it happens in dream world or in movie or in book,
but in reality when you have to pay monthly bill on regular bases, to
change the steady source of income is daunting task.
So, confusion or lack of clarity is quite obvious.
2. START TO SEARCH WHAT YOU LIKE TO DO
Once
you are quite clear that your current profession or job is not giving
you the pleasure, start to search what else attracts you? If given a
choice to select your career which career you would choose? Suppose, if
you have million $ in bank account and you are at your liberty to do
whatever you like to do what would you do? So, at least, it will give
you some of the ideas towards your passion, towards your natural
inclination of mind, towards your real or true calling. Though, this
stage is not completely reliable but somehow your feeling, your natural
hunch will give you some direction or at least it will show you some
path.
3.GRADUALLY MOVE TOWARD THAT DIRECTION
After
your initial search you found some interesting ideas, which really
exited you, which created some thrill inside you and in extreme case you
became completely emotional about it, So, now, heart has completed its
work and let the head to do rest of the work. I mean, now, start to
check the viability or feasibility of the idea. Suppose currently you
are working in any organization as a investment banker but your
observation and analysis says writing is one area which attracts you,
which you are somewhat passionate about it. So, dig down that idea
furthermore.
Consciously start something in that
direction at your perfect leisure or spare time. At least for few days
spare some time for writing, and during that stage observe yourself
closely, whether you like to write, whether it gives you joy or
satisfaction, whether that time of the day when you are writing became
most enjoyable or most boring period . From all of these, you will have
some initial clue that the direction in which you are going is satisfied
you or not. And if idea excites you, good news and if not, leave it
there and come back to pavilion.
4.MOVE FORWARD
Now, you
have some vague picture in your mind about what you like to do. Suppose
writing is your passion or it is the activity which you would like to
do. Start to do something serious in this regard. First of all, start to
read as much as possible it will make you familiar with various writing
style like humor, serious, witty & sarcastic etc. Second- after
sometime start to write something about what you have read in your own
manner or your own word. After some writing you will come to know which
area is troublesome for you, like grammar, spelling, sentence fragments
etc. Start to improvise in that area and work on it.
5. GRADUALLY CHANGE THE PROFESSION
Once
found the passion or work you would like to do or job you would love to
do, next step should be, gradual movement in that direction.
Fortunately, we are living in one of the most wonderful era of human
race. Because, opportunities are available everywhere, learning
resources are freely available, platforms are available where you can
share your ideas, troubles with fellow human being and help will be
available to you at a single click of mouse. So, in whichever direction
you wants to proceed, gradually, move in that direction and find out the
way by which you earn money from it. Initially, the amount of money or
flow of the money will not be as per your expectation and it may not be
your major source of income but at least it will give you some rough
estimate or idea about your future income.
6. HONE THE SKILL
As
we all know, practice makes man perfect, so, constantly try to improve
your skill, learn new tricks about your profession, find out the tips
which enhance your skill, learn from other successful person of your
profession, mingle and meet with like minded person, find out mentor who
can help you in this direction, participate in various seminars,
lectures, open forum of your profession and constantly explore new ideas
by which you can be one step ahead with rest of the herd.
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