Finding your dream job may be the hardest thing you have ever done, whether you are working and feel stressed or you are a student who is about to choose their life career.
In a world where money means so much, and to a human who wishes to leave something behind when we are gone. This may be one of the most challenging decisions we have ever made.
To find a great job means we canât relax, enjoy, and succeed in the best environment. There is already so much we are dealing with, we donât want our job to drain us too.
So, this post is for you if you wish to find a job that is enjoyable and requires the least of your energy.
Reflect on your childhood
Find out what you enjoyed doing as a child. What activities were you gravitated towards?
Where did your creativity flow easily?
This may be something we overlook as adults, but our passions and creativity are hidden in the memories of our childhood.
Try to find out where you were the happiest and felt proud of yourself as a child. Your dream job should provide you with these emotions.
You should be able to thrive and be happy in that same environment. So let me ask you, what activities were you the most excited about as a child?
Sit with yourself, reflect, and try to find out what it was. Itâs okay, take your time diving deep into your childhood memories and find all the experiences where you were so lost in them that you forget that anything else exists.
Examples:
Letâs say that during your childhood, you used to be the one who used to create all the games you and your friends to play and enjoy and you were able to always satisfy them with your great ideas. (Me)
This tells you that you can entertain others by creating something new every time. Itâs a potent skill if you look at it as an adult.
It shows that you can create something (project letâs say) that people will love (exactly what you need) and they will give you money (the goal) while enjoying your time doing so (what we all wish for).
So, itâs a win-win situation. You get the money, the customer, and the project, and at the same time, you are not draining yourself but rather enjoying every second of it. Perfect right?
Your skills might be something different entirely, you may find that you were interested in sports like running or playing basketball or you may find that you were more an artist who enjoys sketching and painting, or you were more into dressing up and taking pictures. Anything.
What is important is that you are satisfied with it, you can make a job out of anything. Even if there is no one in that industry yet, donât be the first to start it.
Your career might be different than others, which is something that should excite you. Just because no one is there doesnât mean people wonât be interested in your service.
Even if there are people who are in that field who are not earning much, that doesnât mean that your product wonât be brought, it just means it may take some time before others will notice your work.
I took a course once where the teacher said something that inspired me and I wish to share it with you, she said something that goes like this, donât be afraid of going somewhere where there is not much success yet, you are not like those you find, you might be the one who pulls customers into that area just to buy your products or whatever you are serving.
This was something that made me do anything in whatever way I wanted because your customers will come and find you because the only person who can give them what they are looking for is you and no one else is like you. They can copy your work sure, but never would it be exactly as you would do it.
No one is you and that is power. Everyone is tired of finding all these products from clothes and food that are all the same, I believe that they have made this world pretty boring.
I am sure you have felt that from time to time, all people wearing the same makeup, the same clothes, have the same dĂŠcor for their homes, etc.âŚ
This world needs what you can only provide, we are all tired of all these sellers who provide us with the same products just because someone else has become a millionaire selling them.
We need new things, we crave change. So, it has come time for you to sit with yourself and find who you really are and what you can provide for us because we can all be your customers, not because we were looking for your product, but we didnât even know we needed it till you brought it to life.
Sorry for this long discussion, but I am very passionate about this topic :>
Try out new activities
I know not many of us have been given the choice to try out everything during our childhood, for whatever reasons. Itâs important to try out new things in fields I encourage you to be excited about something that makes your heart beat a little faster or your eyes pop and you feel like a child again.
Why am I mentioning children again and again? Because they are way more connected to themselves than we are.
They feel deeply and are unafraid to go for what they want. Your job should make you feel the same as you did when you were a child.
It should bring that part of you out, you should be more excited for your product than your customers.
I am not kidding, this is a part of you, so if you are not excited to bring it out to life then it is not working and you will get nowhere with it. Money should be a bonus, not the goal.
Your joy should be to create something you love. Your work should satisfy you, even if it sells and everyone thinks itâs the best thing ever and you are earning millions out of it, guess what! If you are not satisfied with it, you wonât be happy, or your happiness will be temporary.
I am sure you know the feeling, if you have bought a house or graduated from university or even if you got your driving license, every time you remember what you achieved it brings happiness and improves your self-esteem.
I am not saying that you should put your confidence in material stuff, but you just canât be confident without proof of what you are capable of.
So, unless it satisfies you. You havenât done your job right. Your opinion is the most important one.
So, try out new things, and allow yourself to be surrounded by different people. Be in environments that are not where you spend your time in. Allow yourself to grow and learn, you never know what you can find out.
I never thought that I could be a writer one day, or even give people advice this is so out of my comfort zone. I used to be a very shy person, hat to be seen or given any attention, but guess what, I was friends with people who were so different from my personality.
I allowed myself to learn from others, and listen to them. You never know what you will find out.
So, allow yourself to try out businesses or courses or even volunteer in events you normally wouldnât just to see how it will go.
There is nothing to lose, of course, you should be careful I donât need to tell you that it has to be something that wonât mess with your health or is too risky. But you should open up and allow change in your life.
The reason many people are depressed is because they are doing the same things every single day. Itâs exhausting and draining. We are human we are created to explore and learn new things each day.
So, it has come time for you to allow yourself to grow, explore, and learn outside of your normal life. Talk to different people, participate in different activities, and visit new places.
Let yourself grow without overthinking it.
Take care of your mental health
I know many of you are confused right now, but being in the best mental state is so crucial to making such decisions in your life. If you abandon your mental health you might catch yourself settling up for something less than you deserve just because you believe you are unworthy of something greater.
For you to live a life where you have minimum problems since having none is impossible. You need to make sure that the job pays you handsomely. And to do so, you need to believe that you are worthy of all the abundance that money can give.
If you are not careful, you might end up taking a stupid tiring job just because you are not connected to your inner self. Your creativity part has to be alive for you to thrive, which means seeing a therapist should be a priority even if you think you have no problems.
You never know what is stopping you from unlocking your successful side. So, book the appointment and let them tell you if there is something you should improve or if you have any issues to solve.
It is nothing to be embarrassed about. We are all humans, and we all suffer in different ways. It is part of life. So just make sure you see an expert in that field. Seeking help doesnât make you weak. It shows you are unafraid of letting people in, and you will never know how far this can take you.
I will know.