Career Management >> Career - do not follow the mob!
It’s often seen and research has also shown that we tend to follow the mob while choosing a career. Usually youngsters or fresh graduates get inclined towards good salary package offering jobs without realizing it may not fulfill the desire of inner self. They prefer to go for a more popular career rather than opt for the one that is socially not so common. This often leads to development of just machine beings who works for money and material gains but in process leave their potential unexplored, way behind.
It’s important to note here that career do not and should not follow the mob. The basic reason behind this seems to be one’s inability to identify his/her abilities. Sometimes this is influenced by peer pressure, enforcement by elders to do what others are doing, responsibilities burden and personal envy from our counterparts that force us follow a stereotyped career. Another reason why we follow the mob on career path is fear of failure – failure at a new beginning; failure in treading on a new path; failure in doing what we want to do and failure in getting people’s/family’s support. These fears of disappointment stops one to go ahead and follow the career that would really make one happy.
Following the mob may not be too bad for your career but there’s no surety if it will do you good either. A career following the mob can do much harm to an individual’s potential and talents. Unfortunately, it’s no other but the individual herself who should know how to redeem her capabilities. This involves first, knowing about what you want to do in life; secondly, what innate skills you possess and what more you can learn best; thirdly, where does your interest lies and lastly, how strong you are to face the society if you’re really going to follow a career which only a few do.
These are also primitive pointers one should think of in the beginning of career. You can take help of career counselors too for guidance. But always beware of the mob as mob can be misleading. After all, what would you do being making software at an IT company when you enjoy writing more; what would a career in health care fetch you when you love being a designer and what’s there in the entertainment fame when you like to connect with people through air waves?
It’s time to ponder over your career. You should be clear in thoughts what success means to you. Is it about having a handsome take home salary every month that buys you the material world but no satisfaction at personal level or a career that satisfy the real “you” in you? And then, confidence is all that would take you across.
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