How to find your Dream Job? When you feel Stuck in your Career.

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How to find your Dream Job? When you feel Stuck in your Career.

How to find out who you are?
How to figure out what your Dream Job is?
Things that will help you achieve your dream job.

Dream Jobs

1. How to find out who you are?

When we started our career only passion was to earn money because most of us are not born with a silver spoon. We first have to meet our financial responsibilities whether we like the job or not. But the advantage that we have is that meeting our responsibilities makes us a professional and that professionalism brings us closer to our dream job. Like it did for me and a lot of other friends I know. So it doesn’t matter if you are a student, a home-maker or a person stuck in a job that you don’t like. Today I’ll tell you a step by step procedure of how to find your dream job while you earn money. So in today’s we are going to discuss how to find out who you are? And how to figures out what your dream job is? So figuring out who you are, professionally or even personally is a 3- step procedure.

Step 01: Get a job. Any job that the reason why I am asking you this is because a job teaches you a lot of things, like teamwork, meeting deadlines, professionalism, drafting malls, presentations skills, etc. but most importantly it teaches you something that’s not taught in our colleges and that is how to talk to the opposite gender without shaking inside.

Step 02: List your strengths and weaknesses. What will happen after you get a job? You will work and what happens to your work? It gets reviewed by your colleagues, by your bosses and that is the best way to figure out your strengths and your weaknesses. For example, suppose you are good at following up and getting work done. That’s your strength. And maybe you are not so good at presenting your ideas. That’s your weaknesses. So your strengths give you direction and your weaknesses tell you what you need to work on. So take your appraisals seriously, talk to your colleagues because they know more about your style of work than you do, look at the work you have done in the past, and make a list of your strengths and your weaknesses because these realizations help you figure out who you are.

Step 03: Ask yourself the IKIGAI questions. IKIGAI is a Japanese concept. It means “A reason for being” “A reason to wake up every morning” (It’s Fancy Stuff) But It’s as real as it gets because to find the IKIGAI you need to answer these 4 questions.

What are you good at?
What do you love to do?
What does the world need?
What can you get paid for?

At the intersection of these quotes is your IKIGAI. Now, these look super simple but these questions are so difficult to answer. You might be wondering. I like to travel, watch movies, spend time with my family, but who will pay me for it? That’s what even I thought initially but the more you do point #3 of our next section the easier it gets to answer these questions. But note down these 4 questions. Because in your journey of finding your dream job these questions will help you think in the right direction. Now, while you are discovering or creating your personality. You can also figure out what your dream job is.

Dream Job

2. How to figure out your DREAM JOB?

Discovering your dream job is also a 3-step process.

Step 01: Make a list

Make a list of the job that you like CA, Engineer, Doctor, Lawyer, Teachers, and Civil Services. Most of us know only these jobs. So here are the things that will help you make a list.

Google. “Literally type out different Professions” and make a list of the professions that appeal to you.
Ask a question on quora. Most probably somebody would’ve asked it already. All you have to do is scroll through the answers.
Join different clubs. Now, what does that mean? When we were working, we were talking to only 15-20 teammates of mine who had the same background as us. So to meet more people we joined a club called Toastmasters which is a Public speaking club. So if you won't find out what your dream job is, you need to go out and interact with humans, join different clubs like TM, rotary, Check meetup.com, etc. Check the events section of your newspaper to find out what’s happening that weekend, because the more contacts you make, the clearer your career path becomes.
The most important thing to do to make a list of the professions that you like is thinking skills instead of jobs. For example, suppose you say, “I want to be a writer”, then it’s just one job but if you think of “writing” as a skill then you can be a columnist, a novelist, technical writer, content strategist, film critic, travel writer, youtube content creator so many exciting careers! So make a list of the skills that you have or the ones that you want to learn and then branch out different professions out of it.

Step 02: Learn those Skills

Now that you have a list of professions and skills that you are interested in go out there and learn them. Attend workshops, get certifications, attends classes. Do whatever you can to learn.

Step 03: To get into a relationship

To get into a relationship with multiple jobs. Don’t get too excited. Now suppose your list says, I want to be a Web developer, I want to be a photographer, I want to be a stand-up comedian. But you don’t have to marry right away. Just pick one and get into a committed relationship for a couple of months to see where it goes. See, all the jobs are tough but we need to figure out which process will we enjoy? Now you might be thinking, who will go out and do so much hard work? But see, you can sit home, watch all the TED talks you want, make all the excel sheets you can but all of this be useless unless you go out there and try it. So instead of quitting your job, look for mini learning opportunities, volunteer work that you can do in your spare time, and if you don’t like that job, cross it off your list. Until you reach the job that you’d like to marry at least for a few years. I think by now you would’ve figured out that finding your dream job is a journey and here are a few things that will help you in that journey.

3. Things that will help you achieve your dream job.

1) Financial Knowledge: You need to know how to save your money, how to invest your money so that when you finally decide to quit your job you at least have 4-5 months of your income as savings. So that you are comfortable in case your dream job pays slightly less in the beginning.

2) Exercise: Our body is capable of doing “X” amount of work and if all that energy is going in your existing job then how will you find your dream job? By increasing the efficiency of your body through exercise and eating right. I am not asking you to build biceps but walking, running, cycling, or playing any sport for 30 minutes every day will give you crazy energy that you can invest in getting closer to your dream job.

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