five questions about your career choices
4 Dec
First off, take a minute and seriously think about these five questions:
1. What job would make you wake up excited at 5:30 AM, anxious to get to work?
2. What is the one thing you would be doing right now if money were not an issue? Lounging is not an answer.
3. Why do you want to quit your current job? What’s holding you back?
4. If you could radically change your career right now, what would you choose?
5. Look back to the last 10 years of your life, are you happy and proud, or sad and depressed? Why?
Okay, so they’re not five questions, just indulge me.
Almost everyday, we are faced with many choices, each of which will have an impact, big or small, in our lives. We make many of these choices subconsciously, sometimes even offhandedly, without a moment’s thoughts for the repercussions.
But nowhere else are these choices more profound and far reaching than the choices we make in our careers and for our careers. These choices affect our daily lives, our family lives, our children’s lives, and our futures.
And yet many people make choices that trap them into a career they hate, a life they loathe and a future that looks bleak.
A statement I like repeating to myself is this: “All the choices you have made in your life have led you to this one singular moment, this one place.”
It puts into sharp focus the next choice you’re about to make, doesn it?
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Offtopic:
The worst days of those who enjoy what they do, are better than the best days of those who don’t.
- E. James Rohn“Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
- ConfuciusWork like you don’t need the money.
Love like you’ve never been hurt.
Dance like nobody’s watching.”
- Anon
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MINES!!!
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That Confucius (How is his name pronounced?) has a point.
I may sound juve and all with this but here goes. I believe in destiny and fate. I also believe that one can alter one’s destiny but one can’t alter one’s fate.
Sorry, but I know what I’ve said has no bearing on your post. I just wanted to sound smart!
Wait, it akshully makes sense.
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And 2rds just because I CAN!!!
Blame it on Obama!
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Before I comment…the other award was supposed to be for this site naye you two guys confuse me…Emrys, ate Weak Dudes, Rogue King…but there is definitely wisdom here.
What job would excite me that much? Prayer gym instructor!
If money was not a zib….kinda between me and Abba.
Actually, I could spend some more time on my actual job…there are lessons to learn. Relationships to work on.
Career change? I would get into media.
My life is depressing without Miss…
And I agree with Miss about Confucious’ remark. I would like to love my work and not have a job.
This is another one of those amazing posts.
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I like Anon: Dance like nobody’s watching
Will remember that the next time i see ridiculously embarrassed faces with fingers pointing my way..RK, here are the page’s answers:
1. A job that has a challenge in it
2. Go to QUT/Qantm,work at eyedea, then travel the world
3…..Jus a nagging feeling…Fear of the harsh cruel unknown
4. Wickedly Awesome Visual Effects
5. 50/50 of both instances
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prowling the patanal
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1. all my jobs, i love tv, radio and writing
2. if money were not an issue, i would be home writing best sellers
3.no i dont want to quit my jobs, i like them allllll on the contrary and would not want to be fdoing anything else!
4. the last 10 yrs of my life…have been so erratic, ive been sad and deprest alot… not becoz of work…just…issues but what you say about people doing the same thing over and not being completely happy is true, i failed to work at jobs i wasnt meant to doby destiny, i quit jobs only 2 days to a week into it
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stop it! stop it stop it stop it! stop making me think…
your work makes my work easy
@Min Ot, it’s pronounced con-foo-she-yas. Obaa… and I believe both fate and destiny are alterable.
@Nev, LOL. I am the Dark Knight of 2 Weak Dudes and the Rogue King. Pretty obvious, isn’t it? Prayer Gym instructor? lol, nice
@Page, QUT/Qantm? what on earth? You’re serious about those visual effects huh?
@Emrys, dude…
@Lulu, I’m glad you love your jobs, very rare, that. 2 days into a job you quit? wow, tough guts.
@Jasmine, lol. think! think! think!
@The Prophet, welcome, ominous one. Let me guess. Blogspirit makes finding Ugandan blogs easy, right? Since you want to try and critique them?
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Money rules all my [our] choices. Period
Darknight..i gave you guys an award…
1. A job where the boss hates me and the work place is so cold..no heating whats so ever.
2. Go home and party like crazy..then travel…like have breakfast in Hongkon, lunch in dubai and dinner in Paris, then finally retired home..Uganda
3. I hate my job, havent found another yet
4. Something to do with space…like Aeronatic Engineering
5. Happy- My parents paid for everything and i still complained
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This is so like one of my supervisor’s at the Intern place…He’s one of the sharpest chaps I’ve come across and hearing these words from you, I also give you props for being such a creative and thoughtful person.
Am not blowing my trumpet but somehow I thought about all these stuff and realised that you should be able to take responsibility for stand by your choices…however bad someone else might look at it.
You should start some kinda career building stuff…Am sure the government will have some funding for it…I’ve heard of Enterprise Uganda but I thinks they are more in for the money(from the people) than providing a much needed social service
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@Erique, not all of us, fortunately
@Ugandan Girl, thanks for the awards, will sketch some time to properly respond. Aeronautic Engineering is soo cool. Go for it, if you can. make sure your kabalo (maths) is flawless, lol.
@Emi’s, taking responsibility for choices and decisions, however bad they are is one of the biggest signs of maturity. Career building stuff? naaah, not now. I’m not yet savvy enough
Strange, when i finally read a full post from you it is about jobs!!!
1.I could stay up all night for my job and still be the first a work the next day.
2. What i am doing right now( May be spend a little more time doing interior design)
3. I haven’t gotten a better offer, most of the jobs are way to boring!
4. I wouldn’t change it for any thing
5.I would happily say i am happy and proud.
Is it possible to have choice in Uganda do what you love and earn enough? Why do Ugandans always think in the box that money is the reason we work?
1. Lucie’s job.
2. Writing a novel
3. I’ve lost the passion for it. I feel like I’m too old for it and it’s not challenging enough. It’s like no matter how hard I try to apply for other jobs, I don’t succeed. It’s like God still wants me to stay yet I feel my time is up.
4. Media
5. It’s 50-50. I’m glad for the experience I have gained thus far but at the same time I feel like I have stayed at my job for too long. I regret why I didn’t go back to school earlier.
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1. There is no living person that wakes up at 5.30am and is actually excited! That said, I’d love to wake up early (8am earliest) to do whatever it is that Lucie does that she loves. So, be on TV it is for me.
2. Travelling the world. Seeing all the sights I’d love to see and not worrying if I can afford the hotels there. Sigh.
3. Because it’s not making me that gazillion dollars I need to do what I really want to do. It pays the bills so I’m still here.
4. I’d choose party planning. Hey, that’s radical for me but it’s a shot I’d like to take.
5. I’m both happy and proud and sad and depressed. For some choices make me proud and others don’t. Life’s not completely full or empty, it’s measured in halves.
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Dawg
i been away hustling on a certain set of exams
i see you’ve been making the blogren re-assess themselves playa
i’m withchu…
will answer them personally dawg
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