New year brings with it new hope, new determination, new resolutions, new self promises, new commitment, and self introspection for designing goals for future.
History is witness, whether we are in job or still studying we hate Mondays and this is true in most of the cases.Have you ever introspected why is that so. Let me help you by providing insights into this question.
It can be due to many reasons listed below.
(1). You have selected a profession that you don't like.
(2). You are good in your professional duties but still you don't like them.
(3). Most important. for earning bread and butter you are doing your job and if you are given alternative source of income you will definitely quit your job.
There can be other reasons too, but I perceive above points as major reasons contributing to your inefficiencies at work.
Remember, in your school days when most of the students opted for careers that paid professionals very well you opted the same. So, you oriented your choices based on money that a career provided. By this mere act student makes himself comfortable for short term but makes his life confusing in long term.
For instance, back in Y2K, when IT industry was flourishing, there was huge demand of engineers, irrespective of their stream of study, there was a influx of engineering institutes, colleges, and universities. Hence, the competition for engineering entrance exams rose sharply. Most of the students made their minds to follow the common path of engineering and then getting placed since the colleges came up with beautiful placement figures. And there developed a supply chain of coaching institutes for exams, engineering colleges with hefty fees and poor course structure, and placement agencies guiding students on soft skills.However, students never realized what blunder they have committed by following this path. For instance, if a student is interested in becoming a chemical engineer due to his love for the subject and he doesn't get an admit in any of the IIT's, he would have become a software engineer.
Now those who are reading this article may point out that if a student did chemical engineering and landed up in a software job then it is not his fault but the fault of government for not creating enough jobs for chemical engineers. But if you heard of the word globalization, you might have never asked this doubt.
When you dream of something you try to achieve it irrespective of geography,money, and comfort it gives. So, in the above example if a chemical engineer doesn't have enough opportunity in India, he should have researched the opportunities worldwide and then followed the path to attain it.
Believe me. And if you don't then search some individual in any profession who led his career path based on his choices and not chances, he or she will let you know about how much they love Mondays.
Coming on the second point of weighing the money with the chosen career, I would like to highlight only one aspect of life and that is MENTAL SATISFACTION. As a student, you may say that money will provide mental satisfaction, but I would like to challenge you on this since in long run when you introspect about what you are doing even if you have sufficient money you will regret about your choices.
Mental satisfaction comes from the daily tasks you do. You spend most of the time in your jobs and organizations. Compensation day is only one day in a month. However, the daily tasks that you are doing makes or breaks your satisfaction.
So, if you want to evaluate whether you are in right career, then see whether you wait for your salary day or continue your daily tasks with true enthusiasm since you love what you do.
Further read on instances where people dropped jobs and continued to link their hobbies as their careers.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101879750#
You can reach me @ chotu86.saurabh@gmail.com
History is witness, whether we are in job or still studying we hate Mondays and this is true in most of the cases.Have you ever introspected why is that so. Let me help you by providing insights into this question.
It can be due to many reasons listed below.
(1). You have selected a profession that you don't like.
(2). You are good in your professional duties but still you don't like them.
(3). Most important. for earning bread and butter you are doing your job and if you are given alternative source of income you will definitely quit your job.
There can be other reasons too, but I perceive above points as major reasons contributing to your inefficiencies at work.
Remember, in your school days when most of the students opted for careers that paid professionals very well you opted the same. So, you oriented your choices based on money that a career provided. By this mere act student makes himself comfortable for short term but makes his life confusing in long term.
For instance, back in Y2K, when IT industry was flourishing, there was huge demand of engineers, irrespective of their stream of study, there was a influx of engineering institutes, colleges, and universities. Hence, the competition for engineering entrance exams rose sharply. Most of the students made their minds to follow the common path of engineering and then getting placed since the colleges came up with beautiful placement figures. And there developed a supply chain of coaching institutes for exams, engineering colleges with hefty fees and poor course structure, and placement agencies guiding students on soft skills.However, students never realized what blunder they have committed by following this path. For instance, if a student is interested in becoming a chemical engineer due to his love for the subject and he doesn't get an admit in any of the IIT's, he would have become a software engineer.
Now those who are reading this article may point out that if a student did chemical engineering and landed up in a software job then it is not his fault but the fault of government for not creating enough jobs for chemical engineers. But if you heard of the word globalization, you might have never asked this doubt.
When you dream of something you try to achieve it irrespective of geography,money, and comfort it gives. So, in the above example if a chemical engineer doesn't have enough opportunity in India, he should have researched the opportunities worldwide and then followed the path to attain it.
Believe me. And if you don't then search some individual in any profession who led his career path based on his choices and not chances, he or she will let you know about how much they love Mondays.
Coming on the second point of weighing the money with the chosen career, I would like to highlight only one aspect of life and that is MENTAL SATISFACTION. As a student, you may say that money will provide mental satisfaction, but I would like to challenge you on this since in long run when you introspect about what you are doing even if you have sufficient money you will regret about your choices.
Mental satisfaction comes from the daily tasks you do. You spend most of the time in your jobs and organizations. Compensation day is only one day in a month. However, the daily tasks that you are doing makes or breaks your satisfaction.
So, if you want to evaluate whether you are in right career, then see whether you wait for your salary day or continue your daily tasks with true enthusiasm since you love what you do.
Further read on instances where people dropped jobs and continued to link their hobbies as their careers.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101879750#
You can reach me @ chotu86.saurabh@gmail.com
