Career choice
Barriers to becoming aware of your preferences
Choosing a profession can be a daunting task. One of the primary challenges is a lack of knowledge and experience. You may not be familiar with the range of options available. Did you develop, recognize, and test your preferences? Especially when young, you may face the problem of limited perspective. You lack the sense needed to identify a suitable professional path. A lack of references and thoughts make it difficult to check your options. You cannot make an informed decision.
Your perception of society may also influence your choice of profession. Do you want to pursue a professional occupation based on societal or familial expectations? Are you discarding your interests and aspirations?
What about your mindset? Is it positive? What limits your ability to grow your education and build a constructive vision? What is blocking you from gaining new skills or trying new things? Assume a perspective that allows you to overcome the obstacles you identify. Reject negative thoughts that paint every wish and aspiration you hold as unreachable. Cultivate this perspective. You can make yourself better and improve your ability to reach career success. You have ideas, and you can test them. Give energy to the thoughts that have the potential to advance your well-being. Blaming yourself and others is useless. You have a limited amount of energy per day. Wasting it is not a good strategy.
Yes, choosing a profession can be a challenging and complex decision. You might not control all the switches yet. But if you keep aiming at the things you can do now. If you choose to pursue them and keep a mindset that allows you to make efforts and use of your daily potential. Then each day, you’ll get a step closer to your aims. Once you put yourself on that route, it becomes a matter of time.
The time you will take to build your awareness and preferences and to decide. Time to become capable of pursuing the path you chose.
It’s not a short program neither is the road. You can pursue this path by growing, working, and redirecting yourself. There is nothing extraordinary about this process. It’s the growth of the body, mind, and ability. We all go through it.
Let your preferences and your growth guide your professional choice
Let your growth and preferences guide your career choice. It involves taking a thoughtful and deliberate approach. Let them into your decision-making process.
Steps to align possible career pathways with your personal growth and preferences:
Start by accessing your abilities. Consider the activities you enjoy doing and what comes naturally to you. These are pointers, not limitations. You can always learn to do new things and gain new abilities. Even extremely challenging ones! It is one essential element of a successful career path. You can build your capabilities with effort and time. View your abilities as clues that can reveal interests and skills to develop. Identify potential career pathways that make use of those aptitudes.
Identify what you value in life and want to further with your work effort. There are many worthy causes in life, but you don’t have a personal connection with everything in life. Neither do you hold the same thoughts and feeling about them. Focusing on what you value and care about helps you create a road map for your career development. It ensures that your career choice aligns with your long-term work accomplishment aspirations. You’ll hold certain values in your life. You’ll perceive meaning in your life according to them. Aiming and pursuing these values through work will gift you with a sense that you have a worthy pursuit in life. Your valued pursuit won’t necessarily be valued by others. Yet, if it serves your well-being and doesn’t harm other people, you’re on a good track.
Research, find, learn, ask, think, and build up your preferences sense. You need external information to process inwardly. There are answers in words, people, nature, objects, and actions. Gain that felt experience and insight. Pursue a growth path that allows you to experience abilities. Test your interests, and come into contact with values. Conceive an education journey on top of the abilities you want to grow, the interests you want to deepen, and the pursuits you value.
First, you build a fuller sense of your preferences. Recognizing potential career paths comes later.
Become aware of the things you care about
People develop care for people, activities, things, places, and ideas. An experience will result in a positive, negative, or indifferent impression. Experiences that leave a marked impression lead to sentiments. Care might not be an immediate result, but it can develop through interaction. Focus on the positive factors and the potential of the element you’re trying to develop care for. You’re widening your positive perspective about someone, something, or an idea.
People develop care through experiences of bonding and connection. The experience doesn’t have to be physical. Care can develop through the perspective you hold. The existence of a value or virtue affected your thoughts, feelings, or life, and you noticed it!
Strategies to build a professional path on top of the things you care for
Develop a professional path on top of the people, things, activities, or ideas you care for. It involves identifying how they can translate into career success.
For example, when you care for a certain element, you can look at career paths that produce, sustain, or promote it. Also, you can identify the elements that destroy what you care for. What professional activities diminish, remove, or improve the situation?
Consider how positive or negative values can align with a specific industry or sector. Explore different roles and opportunities within that field. Identify specific career pathways that align with your interests and values.
Look for information. Gain practical experience. Seek out mentors and networking opportunities. Most likely, someone is already working to sustain the things you value.
Discover how you’re best suited to contribute to what you care for
Discover your strengths. It includes your personal growth, education, and other possibilities you choose to pursue. This process is part of your education journey and is essential to identify potential career paths.
Here are some ways to discover your strengths:
Take time to reflect on your experiences. Did you note some aptitude for the activity you were performing? Take note of these activities. Did you care for and felt energized by any activity? An environment? An issue? A person? An object? An achievement? Can you repeat or recreate these activities and experiences? Can you deepen your involvement and your contribution to them?
Let me give you an example. I liked reading and didn’t mind writing, but I could read longer than I could write. I got tired while writing. I was so engaged that I became tense and spent lots of energy. I started to test less consuming energy approaches. I found that listening to movie soundtracks while writing did the trick. They relaxed me. I like reading and writing, and now I can do both for a productive amount of time.
Talk about it! Choosing your career is more important than most things you talk about in your daily life. Talk and think about it about it much more. Talk with your friends, family, colleagues, teachers, and others you can reach. Read books about it. Realize that there is a ton of information out there. Focus on people that can widen your knowledge and perspective. Stay clear of those that assume a: you can’t do this attitude toward life.
Consider taking a career assessment test to gain insight into your natural tendencies and preferences and identify the professional paths that match them.
Consider academic advising and working with a career coach or counselor.
Discovering and developing your strengths requires a willingness to explore. Learn and be open to new experiences. By investing time and effort into this process, you gain valuable insights. You gain new possibilities.
There are many ways of making a positive difference. For example, if you care about beautiful spaces, you can:
- clean and maintain them
- envision and embellish them
- design and plan them
- construct or provide the necessary materials for them
- finance them
- become politically involved with them.
The possibilities are immense. Take the time to think them through. You can be creative about this.
Which of these immense possibilities are you best suited for and willing to pursue and fight your way up to? Fighting your way up means the willingness to win the battle of effort. It’s within this fight that you become a capable person. A person able to do the things you value and care for.
Becoming capable of doing the things you care about
Develop knowledge, skills, and abilities to pursue a profession you care about. It requires a commitment to ongoing learning and skill development. One approach is to seek out formal education. Another is a training program that provides the necessary knowledge and skills.
For example, pursuing a degree in nursing can provide the foundation for a career in this field. Besides formal education, you can also seek internships or apprenticeships for hands-on experience.
Education and professional development opportunities help you to stay up-to-date with industry advancements. Keep an eye on industry certification.
Develop a growth mindset and be willing to learn from failures.
We can all be students and individual learners. Pursuing an ongoing education journey of foundational skills and new skills development.
Not all professional paths demand a degree, but they all need know-how or the willingness to gain it. Start by checking a university’s program. Check their Syllabus and recommended literature Online. Read these books and assume the position of continuing education. You’re letting what you want to learn and your growth lead you. This path reveals more topics, interests, and pathways to develop. Become aware of your preferences. Increase your chances of identifying a professional path that aligns with them.
Use Artificial Intelligence. An all-new world opened up for us. Ask it what you want to know! It includes asking about recommended literature from different universities. Focus on asking questions that lead you to the knowledge you’re seeking.
Later on, you’ll be adept at making your career choice. Stay open-minded and flexible as your goals and interests may evolve.
Finally, take risks to pursue opportunities that align with your aspirations.
Stick to your choice despite difficulty
Development, growth, and acquiring knowledge imply challenges. Sticking to your choice when faced with obstacles or criticism is a challenge. Pursuing a chosen path is the selection of your purpose and your challenges, too. It requires dedication, hard work, and perseverance.
Remember that setbacks and failures are a natural part of the learning process. They provide the lessons and insights you need to grow and overcome them. Sticking to your choice, even in the face of challenges, cultivates resilience. You gain confidence in your abilities.
Achieving career success and fulfillment means achieving your aims. It’s your life, your values, and your aspirations.
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I chose the wrong career
How I got into the wrong career.
It all started with a blinding lack of knowledge, experience, and ZERO wisdom.
Without other reasons, except I have to choose something, and architecture sounds good. I ended up choosing the wrong major and career.
Why was it the wrong major?
Simply put, it had little to do with my skills, and I didn’t care much for the results. Envisioning built spaces and designing big objects meant nothing to me. I didn’t care or feel anything for it.
Unfortunately, I had to come into contact with the field of architecture to realize that it had no connection with what I valued in life.
I realize that how my university approached teaching architecture and its price tag had a negative impact, too.
How did my university let me down?
After high school, I didn’t want to pursue higher education, but through a combination of false ideas, I became convinced it was the most likely way to succeed in life. And that I should do it right away otherwise, I’d be left behind, ideas marketed throughout the education and labor systems.
The truth is that higher education is over-marketed. Most professional paths do not require the amount of information, finances, and time that the education market tries to sell.
The primary goal of universities is not to facilitate our pursuit of the right career path nor to gain a proper education. The amount of people pursuing professional paths unrelated to their college degree is too high for it to be so. The amount of people holding a degree and feeling unprepared is too high.
Universities charge an absurd amount of resources. They hinder and cripple many people’s lives, not just mine.
The pursuit of the wrong career path
After my pursuit of a necessary certificate but an unnecessary education, I pressed on, convinced of the necessity and urgency of pursuing a straight line from an architecture degree to internships, and an architect’s license.
Why would I think otherwise? If it wasn’t so, why did everyone say I needed a degree?
It took me years to realize and finally decide I didn’t want to spend my days looking for solutions to problems I didn’t care for.
I won’t describe how a wrong career choice that didn’t match my strengths affected my ability to produce good work or made me feel inadequate and unhappy. I will only say that it did.
#Feeling stuck in life #Stuck in life #Get unstuck #Feel stuck #Stuck feeling
