Chapter 5: How to Make Your Career Goals Happen Too many people have mistaken ideas when it comes to their approach to their careers. We often believe that working incredibly hard in jobs that we don’t truly enjoy is ‘responsible’ and what adults should do. We often feel that we don’t really have any choice when it comes to what we do for a living. We often feel scared to try anything else. And this is why so many of us are unhappy in our careers: we just ‘let them happen’ and accept the career path that we fall into. We leave school or college, take the first job opportunity that comes out way, and then work hard to progress up the ladder. We never take a moment to actually ask: is this what I want? Do I have a choice? Here are some ways to apply the principles that we’ve discussed to making progress in your career…
Knowing What You Want The first and most important thing to focus on here is step 3 – coming up with your plan. It’s time to acknowledge that you don’t have to continue working a job you don’t like and there’s no reason that you even need to focus on your career at all. The first myth we need to dispel then, is the notion that you need to get your sense of satisfaction and progress from your career at all. That is to say that you should be able to get the same satisfaction from a hobby. We often feel that our sense of self-worth and achievement is tied up in our careers and that we need to work harder and harder in order to feel like we’re progressing in
