Career and Job
Ever ask yourself who you will may become and what you will do in the next 5, 10, 15 years or the rest of your life? Politician, public certified accountant, manager of a bank, professor, lawyer, doctor, soccer player, engineer, or hotel manager? Or you don’t want to care that much and just be a better-paid job hunter? Either way, it is a job-or-career decision and requires planning.
People want jobs because they want to make a living, maybe a good one. However, career is not defined by how much you earn (many people can make a lot of money from a particular job, yet they still look for a different one) but it is measured by your desire to spend some part or the rest of your life doing it. You want to be so specialized in something and proudly say as your expertise and claim as your profession.
You can also change your career path as well. Sometimes after working for a while, you realize you like something else or maybe it does not fit your personality, lifestyle, situation, financial condition, family factor, and you might consider changing it. I remember a guy who was a doctor for 20 years. One day he decided that he wanted a different profession, a lawyer. So he went to law school at his 50s. And you know what, he was my classmate. In the US, it took 3 years to finish law school and some more for bar exams, but he did not care. “I want to be a lawyer” gut allowed him to concentrate what he was going to do in another half of his life or so with a different career without looking back his past 20 years with those syringes and needles.
In life, it is better to have plans and doesn’t matter if you have to change them from time to time. What is really important is that you know what you doing and what direction you want to lead it.
After school, you think more about getting a job, but try for the one you love so that you can build your career on it! Don’t always find a new job in one or two years because you are not a backpacker!!
A lot of people have jobs, but do they have career? I got a job, but I am still in pursuit of my career.
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