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Good morning,
I hope you are all finding ways to enjoy your summer. I am trying to figure out when to sneak off for a little vacation.
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Skye Thomas
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Quote of the Week:
Ask yourself, "If all jobs paid $2 an hour, what job would I want to do?" When you
answer that question, start doing it, even if you have to do it for free at first.
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It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose
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The number one sign you have nothing to do at work: The 4th Division of Paperclips
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Feature Article of the Week:
How to Choose Your Ideal Career
They say that most people do complete and total career changes at least once, often twice in their lifetimes. Very few people chose the ideal perfect career for themselves when they are in high school and blissfully happily work those same jobs for the rest of their lives. With the way that technology and everything else changes so fast, I think it is ridiculous to expect to stay in one job from the time you leave school until you retire. Even staying in the same company can be a huge challenge. So how will you pick your first career? Your next major career change?
The first thing I want you to look at is what kinds of things do you enjoy doing
and what you are naturally good at. Imagine that you just won the lottery and you
will never have to work again for another day of your life. How would you spend
your time? After the shopping sprees and traveling and such grows old, you are going
to have to fill your days up doing something so that you are not bored out of your
mind. What would you do? What would consume your attention if you could freely
bury yourself in it? Is there a way to make a living at that now? Is there a way
to incorporate some of that into your current career? Could you begin doing it now
as a hobby and grow it into a second income and eventually quit your ‘real job’ to
play full-
You obviously have to look at practicality issues. Truth be known my very favorite thing to do is drive convertibles and suntan at the beach. That’s not likely going to ever become a career and it sure as heck isn’t going to pay my bills! You have to look at what you like to do and take a realistic look at whether the market is ever going to pay you an income for doing it. Just because you love doing something does not mean that the world is going to love giving you money for doing it. There are plenty of musicians and artists out there who cannot earn enough to support themselves. It takes more then just a love of your work. Pick a number of different things that you love and narrow the list down by deciding which ones would realistically finance you at the level that you require.
Another thing to consider, especially when you are choosing your first job is how much education or special training is required. How many kids think that because they love to play basketball that they will be the next Michael Jordan? How many put in the kind of work and practice that he did? If you want to be a doctor, then you had better seriously contemplate the years of college and the extremely high cost of going to medical school. Down the road, a lot of the experience you get in one career can be transferred to your next career. Customer service skills that you learn while waiting tables will still serve you later when you are an entrepreneur. If you have a lot of the skills from previous work experience, but not all of them, then you have to figure out how to finance going to night school or whatever else you need to do to change careers. Additional education and skills should not stop you from changing to a great job that you know you will love, but you do need to take it into serious consideration while making the choice.
Many of the community colleges have some cool placement tests that tell you what
kinds of work you would be happy doing. They ask you a bunch of multiple choice
questions like if you would rather work indoors or outside. Do you want to travel
as part of your career or stay home? How much weight are you willing to lift? How
introverted or extroverted are you? How much money do you want to make? After you
answer these questions and a bunch more, the computer system spits out a list of
careers that you would be suited to. Keep in mind that what interested you at twenty
is not likely to be the same as what interests you at forty. I would think that
you could do an online search and find some of those tests online. These will give
you some ideas you may have never considered. I remember taking one when I was in
my early twenties and I ranked extremely high at “Clergy.” I laughed and thought
that was the stupidest thing I had ever heard of. I wanted to be a motivational
speaker and it took me a couple of days before I realized that it is a very similar
job description. Whether I am telling you about God or I am telling you how to pull
yourself up by your bootstraps, it’s the same skills and many of the same daily tasks.
I am preaching a different topic, but I am still up on my soapbox telling you what
to do and telling you how to live, aren’t I? So, be open-
So, start out by brainstorming ideas of things that you would love to do if money was not an issue. Then add to it the results of one of those placement tests. Take the ideas from those two exercises and start looking at the practicalities of marketability and how much education and training are necessary. If you can find a way to do what you love and make a living at it, then you have got the key ingredients to creating a life of abundance and prosperity that the rest of the world only dreams of. You do not have to stay with something just because you used to love it and now you make a lot of money doing it. If you are bored and ready for something new, then start dreaming and planning your next adventure.
Copyright 2004, Skye Thomas, Tomorrow’s Edge
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of faith. She became a writer in 1999 after twenty years of studying personal growth,
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