Self-Insight Questions
What’s your mission in life?
What is your goal in the job world?
What job do you want?
What company do you want to work for?
How greedy, selfish and evil are you? How immoral can you be?
Are you good in your soul or a selfish money-hungry egoist?
What is your ideal job description?
What are your best strengths?
What skills do you need to work on?
What are you naturally interested in?
What would you like to learn?
What are your greatest accomplishments?
What are you curious about?
If you were rich, what would you do day after day?
How do you do your best work, by yourself or in a team?
How can you improve your work style?
Decide on a Career 1
If you're currently a desperado, the following few paragraphs will help you refocus, identify the skills you have, narrow down the type of work you like to do and give you a number of outlets to gather information for prospects of landing that job that will carry you contentedly into the future but the bottom line is always in your soul, in your gut.
You know intuitively where you stand in life and what you're capable of. On the other hand, don't take it all so hard.
Many people float around for awhile then get a job in some field, end up liking it and stick with it. Unless you're a serious, passionate creative type, the bottom line is that a job is a job is a job.
Us human beings can adapt to anything so if you're uncertain about yourself, plunge in, get a job, see how it goes and either stick with it or move on.
Many of us don't have the luxury of choosing a career. We take what we can get so it ain't that much of a big deal unless you're an artist who has to live for his art no matter what and they're usually dirt poor anyway. They pay the price with rejection and often depression.
You pay the price for your choice with mundanity in exchange for a pay cheque. You can very easily go to a temporary employment agency and work different jobs for awhile until you find what you like.
The secret is knowing where to look, what to ask and how to narrow down the type of job you'd not only enjoy but be pretty good at.
Much of this is understanding what makes you tick.
Knowing your strengths and weaknesses will give you power. What are you good at? What do you like to do? Have you ever thought about it in a truly critical, analytical way?
Have you actually sat down and listed your skills and capabilities? This may seem basic but it's not. Go to your library to the #331, #371.42, #650-659 and the HF5381 sections, ask if there's a separate employment section in the reference section, then simply go through books and read about different job areas to get a feel for what you like.
Before you decide on a career and spend six years in college studying for it, go out and see it first hand before you commit yourself.
Onetime, I was brainwashed to become a medical doctor but one afternoon, I met an old doctor in a small clinic who sewed up my leg and told me that it's a tough, thankless, boring job that requires constant vigilance. That did it for me. I never would have made it through med school anyway.
I knew a bookworm girl, always at the top of her class who spent about two years in med school until they got into the actual blood and guts surgery part of it and that was it for her, two years down the drain. She went on to get a job taking x-rays of people - no blood involved.
If she had gotten a summer job at a hospital or did some volunteer work with the Red Cross beforehand, she would have found the truth out before she ended up wasting those two years.
Another friend of mine spent about three years messing around in college with a business major, then decided he didn't like it so he spent two years at a vocational school taking an electronic technician course all the while working the night shift as a cashier in the cafetaria at a hospital to support him
What’s your mission in life?
What is your goal in the job world?
What job do you want?
What company do you want to work for?
How greedy, selfish and evil are you? How immoral can you be?
Are you good in your soul or a selfish money-hungry egoist?
What is your ideal job description?
What are your best strengths?
What skills do you need to work on?
What are you naturally interested in?
What would you like to learn?
What are your greatest accomplishments?
What are you curious about?
If you were rich, what would you do day after day?
How do you do your best work, by yourself or in a team?
How can you improve your work style?
Decide on a Career 1
If you're currently a desperado, the following few paragraphs will help you refocus, identify the skills you have, narrow down the type of work you like to do and give you a number of outlets to gather information for prospects of landing that job that will carry you contentedly into the future but the bottom line is always in your soul, in your gut.
You know intuitively where you stand in life and what you're capable of. On the other hand, don't take it all so hard.
Many people float around for awhile then get a job in some field, end up liking it and stick with it. Unless you're a serious, passionate creative type, the bottom line is that a job is a job is a job.
Us human beings can adapt to anything so if you're uncertain about yourself, plunge in, get a job, see how it goes and either stick with it or move on.
Many of us don't have the luxury of choosing a career. We take what we can get so it ain't that much of a big deal unless you're an artist who has to live for his art no matter what and they're usually dirt poor anyway. They pay the price with rejection and often depression.
You pay the price for your choice with mundanity in exchange for a pay cheque. You can very easily go to a temporary employment agency and work different jobs for awhile until you find what you like.
The secret is knowing where to look, what to ask and how to narrow down the type of job you'd not only enjoy but be pretty good at.
Much of this is understanding what makes you tick.
Knowing your strengths and weaknesses will give you power. What are you good at? What do you like to do? Have you ever thought about it in a truly critical, analytical way?
Have you actually sat down and listed your skills and capabilities? This may seem basic but it's not. Go to your library to the #331, #371.42, #650-659 and the HF5381 sections, ask if there's a separate employment section in the reference section, then simply go through books and read about different job areas to get a feel for what you like.
Before you decide on a career and spend six years in college studying for it, go out and see it first hand before you commit yourself.
Onetime, I was brainwashed to become a medical doctor but one afternoon, I met an old doctor in a small clinic who sewed up my leg and told me that it's a tough, thankless, boring job that requires constant vigilance. That did it for me. I never would have made it through med school anyway.
I knew a bookworm girl, always at the top of her class who spent about two years in med school until they got into the actual blood and guts surgery part of it and that was it for her, two years down the drain. She went on to get a job taking x-rays of people - no blood involved.
If she had gotten a summer job at a hospital or did some volunteer work with the Red Cross beforehand, she would have found the truth out before she ended up wasting those two years.
Another friend of mine spent about three years messing around in college with a business major, then decided he didn't like it so he spent two years at a vocational school taking an electronic technician course all the while working the night shift as a cashier in the cafetaria at a hospital to support him
