Best paying careers? WHO CARES!
Building your “dream career” is not all about having the best paying careers or the most prestigious job - it’s about having a career where your work is exciting for you. This leads to being highly enthused and motivated about doing daily work that doesn’t feel like a job – you become fulfilled and satisfied within the working world. And yes, that does in fact have a tremendous impact on your level of energy in every day life.
“The Confused, Undecided, Frustrated, Stressed-out Career and College Destroyer” – that’s what the fictional, yet powerful, “career virus” has rightfully been named. This make-believe virus affects the way the mind processes critical career decisions - sometimes it numbs the thinking so severely that it’s just not possible to make a confident career decision at all.
Yes, “the virus” is all made-up stuff, but this scenario plays itself out in the minds of thousands of people around the world on a daily basis. It affects everyone ranging from a high school or college student lost in the maze of career decisions, college majors, and university choices to working adults who have that “knot in the stomach” feeling on Sunday evenings.
This is a HUGE problem! Career confusion and indecision leads to frustration and stress that then leads to students dropping out of college and adults living in a world of work they dislike. This doesn’t paint a very inspiring picture, but this is a part of real life reality that needs to be highlighted and reversed.
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” is a question we hear all the time. We even hear fifty year old adults personally trying to answer the question.
“What are you passionate about?” is the real question that needs to be answered. The best paying careers are not automatically going to give meaning to your work life.
Three key mistakes made by college / college-bound students that contribute to going in the wrong direction and college dropout are:
Not discovering personal interests / not having a long-term career goal.
Choosing a mismatched college major.
Selecting the wrong university.
Three major errors made by adult workers that contribute to the lack of work inspiration and satisfaction:
Settling for what you get and not going after what you deserve.
Not discovering personal interests.
Not having a Motivational Action Plan (M.A.P.).
Can you see how these critical career miscues can nose-dive a person’s emotion, desire, and drive into an out-of-control spiral?! Do people want this? Of course not! When will this change? It needs to change sooner than later!
Wake up the sleeping passions within you, forget about the best paying careers, and take control of your career path! You’re doing yourself a disservice if you simply go through the motions on the surface.
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