Your Future Career
Choose a Future Career you’re going to Love
Right now, you may be working at a part-time job at the mall or supermarket, and I can probably guess correctly that you don’t love it. In fact, you just might hate it, and I doubt you would ever want to be working there for the rest of your life. You see people working jobs they hate and they do it until they retire or die. That is not the life you want to live.
The career you choose to go after is most likely the career you’re going to have for the rest of you working life until retirement. You could go back to school later to change your job, but that takes time and can be a hassle and nobody starts a career expecting to do something else in the future.
This is why you should be careful and choose a job you know you’re going to love.
Don’t just look at the money. Just because a job pays a lot doesn’t mean you will be happy doing it. Still keep in mind that just because it pays well doesn’t mean you’re going to be unhappy. Money doesn’t equal happiness or unhappiness it all depends on whether you like the job and lifestyle or not. Don’t use money as a deciding factor unless you think you won’t be able to survive on what it pays.
You should also look into what the working conditions are of a typical job in your field choice as well as the stress level, benefits, vacation time, and overall commitment it will take.
Look for jobs in areas that you know you are good at and that you have a good feeling about. If it’s something you love, you should be doing it and making money for it.
If you’ve done the internships, gotten the four year degree, and finally got your dream job and hate it, take action. You might just need to give it some time. It was your dream job, right?
Don’t keep a job you hate because you feel you have to.
If you still hate it after giving it some time, don’t stay. Make sure you do what makes you happy. You might put four years into a degree and after just a year at a job, you find out you hate it. It happens. That’s life. Don’t stay at a job you hate. Try looking for a new job, and if you find out it’s not the job but the field you hate, go back to school for something else if you have to.
You only have one life to live and you will probably be working through most of it. Do what makes you happy. It’s a simple, yet effective point to live by. You will never be able to enjoy your life or your future career if you don’t make sure you are doing something you really love and something that you love every aspect of.