1. Work by design, not by default.
Many people choose a career with minimal knowledge of what skills are needed, what the day-to-day work involves, and whether it’ll make them happy.
Some start down one path, pulled toward one of the careers that recruit the hardest, where corporate profits are highest but employees are least satisfied.
Then inertia and circumstance dictate which direction their career goes. In effect, they let their career choose them, rather than the reverse. Instead, be proactive. Decide what direction you want to go, and then start moving in that direction, today.
2. Take responsibility for your career
The days of working at one company for a lifetime and relying on a pension and social security are long gone. Have an internal locus of control: you are in charge of your career and your life. Design your own career, because if you don’t, others will.
3. Have frames of mind that serve you.
Success is much easier with the right frames of mind, mental attitudes that color how you think about things.
Here are a few that will serve you well:
1. Be optimistic: Expect great things to happen, and be enthusiastic about the path you’re on.
2. Have an abundance mentality: The more you give, the more you’ll get back.
3. Act with confidence: Believe that you can achieve what you want.
4. Free yourself from limiting beliefs: Don’t accept negative frames of mind that constrain you.
5. Feel gratitude: Learn to see your experience of work as a privilege, a chance to utilize your unique talents in service of something bigger than yourself.
6. Make work fun: You’ll enjoy it more and you’ll be the type of employee that others want to work with.
4. Know yourself.
People are bad at predicting what will make them happy. Too many people devote years or even decades to climbing the career ladder and reach the top only to discover that it was leaning against the wrong wall. Decide what you want out of life, then do your research.
Which careers tend to bring people the most money, happiness, fulfillment, or whatever you’re looking for? Then examine yourself.
Do you have what it takes, based on your test scores, strengths and weaknesses, personality, and willingness to put in whatever effort is required? Also talk to some people who have achieved what you want to achieve, to see if it brought them the rewards you’re expecting.
5.Have a career aligned with who you are or want to become.
What are your values? What do you care about? The answers to these questions say a lot about who you are, and this should guide you in a career choice. If you value justice, honesty, fairness, or integrity, factor that in to your career choice.
If you want to make a positive impact on the world, do something that helps others. Whatever course you choose, be guided by authenticity, by who you are at your core.
6. Decide what a career is for.
There’s much talk about a work/life balance, as if work isn’t part of life, as if work is the stuff you have to do and life is the stuff you want to do. This is a false dichotomy.
Making a living is part of making a life. Your career should be aligned with you who are at a fundamental level no less than any other aspect of your life is.
My personal goal is to maximize happiness, pleasure and meaning, in both myself and others, and I try to do this when I’m at work no less than when I’m at play. Figure out what you want out of life and then figure out what role your career can play in making it happen.
7. Have a healthy attitude toward money.
Many people let money dictate the direction their career goes.
Either they take the highest paying job they can get now, or the one that will give them the skills they need to get the highest paying job they can get in the future.
Money should certainly be a consideration, but not the only one. In our culture of consumption, it’s easy to forget that money is a means, not an end, and that promotions and raises don’t always lead to lasting happiness.
The truly scarce resource is time, but too many people value money over time when they should be doing the reverse.
Having said all that, if you are currently in debt or living paycheck to paycheck, do whatever you can to become financially independent as soon as possible.
This opens up more choices in your career and your life, allowing you to focus on things other than money, think longer-term, and take more intelligent risks.
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