What does it tell you
about the world, where most of the working population is overworked, exhausted,
frustrated, no time for family / friends, and literally no active
socialization. People are messed up emotionally, physically and socially. No
wonder organizations talk about failed productivity, the only things we are seemed to be concerned about is output, results,
targets and ultimately how much money we make.
We are living in a chaotic
world, where a potential Artist is stuck
in a banking job and a potential banker is stuck in a sports career. For
both, their respective choices can be equally daunting and frustrating. A person’s choice of career should be
fulfilling Professionally as well as Personally. With so much information
and advice available online, we can literally crawl through any job. But there
is a difference between crawling though and excelling at something. No matter
how much you work hard to crawl, there will be a time when you can no longer
sustain and you will eventually have a break down.
Every individual is
wired differently and everyone is uniquely gifted with the talent, intelligence
& skills, the need is to determine this unique quality in you and move
ahead along these lines. A fish has to
be evaluated by its ability to swim and not by its inability to fly, like
wise we need to be evaluated in our areas of strength and encouraged
accordingly.
In
a country where everyone is obsessed with only two professions, Engineering
& Medicine. And where people start thinking about what to do, only after
they become engineers, it is very
difficult to have satisfying careers unless few decisions are made at an
earlier point of time. Being an Engineer or Doctor are not the only two
professions, with industrialization and advent of technology and whole new
perspectives in Science and Management, there are newer careers and jobs
cropping up. A thorough analysis of self strengths and all the available job
alternatives will definitely help us in making a correct career choice. The idea is to have the most suitable match
of our strengths with the available opportunities, the moment this happens our
career will boom in leaps in bounds and our work will never bug us.
When we judge ourselves
or someone else based on the amount of money made, we must realize that there
is something wrong with the way we measure success. Although money can somehow
be called a basic necessity, but after crossing a threshold, it doesn’t matter.
There is much more to life than just money.
Health, Relations,
Family, Friends, Hobbies, Entertainment, Spirituality and many more are a part
of life. The choice of our career can affect many of these and there is no
doubt that we need to compromise on certain fronts. The things on which we
compromise and to what extent? This should be in our control. We should aim to
achieve Harmony & Balance in all
the spheres of life. The need is to have
an optimum balance of all these aspects with a career which focuses on our
strengths / passion. And if we are able to get all of these while
compromising a little on the money front, this shouldn’t be a bad deal in the
long run.
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