The world is your lobster (Part 2)

If you look online for advice on finding a career, you will find a lot of articles and even the odd quiz that tell you how to find the RIGHT career, the job that you were meant to do.

As a side note, I decided to do one of these quizzes.

Amongst the list of my ideal careers were a mobile

heavy equipment mechanic,

a heating and air conditioning installer

and a transportation equipment painter.

Um, what?!?

Is there a right career for each of us? Something that we are meant to do for the rest of our lives? What, then, if we miss our calling or go down the wrong path? What if we end up doing something we hate? What if we could be amazing at one thing, but miss the boat or choose the other thing, at which we are only mediocre?

What if?

It's an easy thing to think. But it is completely

counter productive, at any stage. If you are trying to decide on a course of study or a career, you will tie yourself up in knots if, at every decision you come close to, you second guess yourself, wondering if there could be something better. And if you're in the middle or approaching the end of your career, if you are thinking about what could have been if you had just done this or that, you will drive yourself crazy.

There are a couple of things I'm trying to say here. Firstly, don't over think it - if there is something you're interested in, that you think you could enjoy and be good at go for it. Don't always look for something better. Secondly, it's not too late. If get a few years into your job and realise you hate it and you're not very good at it, that's ok. Change may not be easy, but that doesn't mean it's not possible

I think there are some things that make us more suitable to some careers. For example, if you don't like working with people, don't become a physio. If you don't like animals, don't become a vet. If you don't like conflict, don't become a lawyer. If you're not good with numbers (or calculators), don't become an accountant. And if you're tone deaf, don't become an opera singer! But I don't think there is just one career that is specifically designed for each person. There may be a lot of things you could flourish in and that could benefit others, but don't waste your time looking for the absolute perfect fit. There probably isn't one. Every job will have good and bad days.

Make your choice and do it well. If it doesn't work out, that's ok, try another option.