What do you want from your dream career? (page 3/3)
Extra homework!!
So you’ve done your work? I hope that you have a neatly set-out page, with a list of attributes that you want from your dream career, as well as a list of alternative careers which could also satisfy those attributes. Of course, although the page may be well set out, I hope that there are plenty of sheets of crumpled paper in your waste paper bin which are full of ideas you had on your way to creating the first step of your career blue-print.
And, I hope that you have a full and thorough realisation of what your dream career entails.
So, for extra credit, take your list of ‘alternative careers’ – you know, the ones which will be able to give you what you were hoping to gain from your ‘ideal career’ and go through Exercise Two with each of these careers. Are there aspects of these careers you hadn’t though about? Perhaps when considering these careers in the round, they are in fact MORE APPEALING that the career you had chosen as your dream career?
Wrap-up
Anyway, that’s it for this lesson.
Are you exhausted? Do you have a note pad full of ideas?
If so, then WELL DONE!
Remember, this is worth working hard on! You are trying to find a career for yourself which, as Confucius says, does not feel like work at all!!
Okay, I think I’ve worked you hard enough for now. So get another drink of whatever you like to relax with, slump down in your comfy chair and start thinking about all of those different careers.
And hopefully today has given you an appreciation of exactly what your new career entails, as well as what other careers might meet your needs.
Well done! I’m proud of you for taking the first step to finding your dream career!!
Jonathan Lewis, MA (Cantab)
Jonathan Lewis has extensive experience of selecting, recruiting and retaining exceptional personnel in a variety of professional roles. To learn from his experience, visit Careerfriend at http://www.careerfriend.com now.
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