Finding the right career or dream job is often a topic that many people are interested in and want to know because everyone would like to start working in the right career and the job that they like. But in reality, it is not like that. It may be because we ourselves do not know what the dream job or the job that we really want to do is?
So how do we get started in finding the right career or dream job?
The right career or dream job, if anyone really gets this kind of work, it is considered very lucky. They will be happy every day, want to wake up early to go to work, and want to develop themselves, increase their abilities to produce even better results.
But there are many people who still can’t choose. If there is a job, they have to start doing it first. Or some people may spend more than half their lives searching for the right career or dream job, but still haven’t found it yet.
Admin had the opportunity to read the article 7 lessons about finding the work you were meant to do written by Kate Torgovnick May , a writer from TED.com. Admin thinks that Kate’s article has useful perspectives, so would like to present it as another method and option for people who are looking for the right career or dream job.
In Kate’s article, she defines the right career or job as “a job that we intend to do so that on Monday mornings we don’t feel like we’re going to die, but rather we feel happy every second of waking up to face it again.”
In Kate’s article, she tells the story of finding her calling, based on a book by Dave Isay , founder of StoryCorps , a nonprofit organization that provides a platform for people to share their stories, beliefs, and life experiences.
“We must not only find the right career, but we must fight for it.”
Isay says that fighting for the right career is a worthwhile fight. Most of the time, when we find it, we have to make big decisions and sacrifices to get it.
Because the right career, we will feel that it is worth it when we have a bright Monday morning and are happy to go out and face it again. It looks like another perspective on work that looks very happy, doesn’t it? Because of these feelings and desires, we need to find the right career, a career that we can stay with for the rest of our lives.
Because we want to find the right job, Isay has presented 7 ways to overcome the (hard) obstacles to finding the right career.
1. The right career is a combination of what we do well, see value in it, and believe that the work we do will help improve people’s lives.
The combination of these three things (work that we are good at, work that makes people’s lives better, and work that we are happy and content to do) is the right career for us. At this point, we call it Calling, which is the job that is most suitable for us.
“Turn off the noise from friends, family and society telling us what to do. Go deep inside yourself and find the truth that we already know inside.”
But finding the right career isn’t as easy as walking down the street and finding it. But it’s not so difficult that you have to travel the world to find it. We can find it by using ourselves as a variable in finding it. We have to ignore the opinions of people around us first. We have to ignore criticism or being forced on us by them (well-wishers who don’t understand us). Because the more we listen, the worse it gets. It makes us not dare to go out and look for the job or career that we really want.
We need to find what we are really good at, what we value, and it would be even better if the work can also improve people’s lives.
2. The right career often comes with difficult experiences.
It is in the quietest moments that we can most clearly hear our own needs. Because in our lives, there are rarely times when we are quiet or still, where we can listen to our inner voice.
“Experience helps us see death more clearly, and often it helps us make a difference.”
Isay says that sometimes our clarity comes when we are going through the worst events in our lives. He cites the story of Ayodeji Ogunniyi as an example, and says that while Ayodeji was studying medicine, his father was killed. In that incident, he discovered that he wanted to be a teacher, and whenever he walked into the classroom to teach, he felt his father walking with him.
3. The right career will make us courageous.
“The right career is ignited by hope, love and challenge.”
The right career often comes in difficult situations, situations that are hard to accept, but we will have the courage to overcome things to reach it. Despite obstacles, failures, and disapproving voices from people around us, we will be able to get through it. We will have enough motivation to overcome the obstacles that come our way.
4. Sometimes we may be pushed into finding the right career.
Isay tells the story of Sharon Long. She attended college in the Arts department where there was a science section in her curriculum that she had to earn credits for. Her advisor recommended that she take a forensic anthropology class because it was the easiest class in the subject. The second Sharon sat down in class and the teacher started teaching, it was like a bomb went off in her head and she thought… this is what I want to do.
This situation is probably similar to many people, such as being forced to do a job that you don’t like (even though you’ve never done it before), but when you start doing it, you like it and want to do it a lot.
5. What happens after you find the right career is also important.
The right career is not the kind of job that ends when you reach your destination.
But it is a continuous work or activity, and its operation will never end. Pursuing it may make us think back to our studies, internships, or when we first started our business, but these operations never end. Once we start, they will continue to be developed. There are still results such as progress and success waiting for us.
6. Age is not a limitation when searching for or starting the right career.
Because finding yourself is not determined by how old you are or how old you have to be before you find yourself?
“Working in the right career is one of the most satisfying and memorable experiences a person can have, so don’t give up.”
Isay tells the story of how when he was 21, he interviewed a man who was part of the Stonewall riots. As he pressed the record button, he knew right away that he wanted to be a journalist, to interview people for the rest of his life. And he felt lucky that he was able to find it at a young age, because he had plenty of time to obsess over the right career for the rest of his 21 years.
Traces of the right job, the career we want, are hidden in every activity in our lives. We may have to learn to be a detective, observe, and trace what we have done and experienced in order to find the right career for us.
7. The right career doesn’t always come with high compensation at first.
Money or income is important, but don’t forget that the right career may not start with high compensation from the beginning. Most people tend to start working with jobs that offer high compensation first because, of course, nowadays, money is often the main factor that makes people survive. Until some people choose to give up their dreams for money. But some people choose to quit their high-paying jobs to find jobs with lower compensation but receive more satisfaction because this is the right job for them.
“Working as little as possible but earning as much as possible, that’s the dream.”
Isay’s book also tells the story of many people finding and finding their calling or the right job. He has collected many of these wonderful stories and put them in a book called Calling: The Purpose and Passion of Work.
At the end of the book, he says, “There are no millionaires, billionaires, or celebrities. No one has a huge Twitter following. There are only stories that teach us a lot about living life to the fullest.”
Conclusion
Everyone wants to work in the right career or dream job, and no one wants to be miserable in the wrong job for the rest of their life. Everyone has dreams and desires, which sometimes are changed by the environment around us that affects us, covering up our true desires completely.
Try to find some time alone, review past events and stories, ask yourself questions to bring out your true desires, find your calling, and try to fight for it. Always develop yourself, and you will succeed in the direction you choose.
“Fighting on the path we choose for ourselves will always be a worthwhile and memorable fight.”
