A question you probably never asked yourself is “How do I know if I have made a good decision or not?” If you are considering a particular career path, there are many important questions you can ask yourself first. After all, there may be significant changes that occur to you before you ever catch up, which would be too risky and many of the abilities that a career path may entail are not as easily adjustable as you might think.
Here are the five most important questions to ask yourself before signing up for a particular career or project:
1. What are your core values?
The career you take is all about your values. In addition to your values, you should also be looking for values in your specific career path. What is important to you on this career path? Do you love the work? If so, then it is possible that you are perfectly suited for the career you have chosen. You do not have to be bored with your job, you just have to love it, and that is enough.
2. What are the modes of transportation you prefer for getting to your career destination?
These are essential questions. There’ll be several times when you feel like your options have changed. Do you want to drive to work or would you rather live out of your car? Would you rather ride your bike or go to a derivative of public transportation? Are you interested in working in an environment that draws positive crowds?
3. What if you loved your job, but for some reason, you’re not giving your best?
You should ask yourself whether your past activities are valuable to your new career. Can you think back on anything that was exciting? Did you accomplish anything substantial for your career? For that matter, did you enjoy taking a class? Did enough of a lemon taste of it?
4. Can you re-allocate your skills to landing a job about which you don’t want to take personal and financial risks?
While you are choosing a career and your future position(s) through the employment process, you have to prepare for change and to make them, as you honestly may, especially into your own. Thus, you have to be good at adapting. When you are in a job, you have to be able to complete the job more efficiently and be able to work more effectively. Change happens, no matter what we tell anyone, or what arguments we may advocate!
5. What is your brand, and let’s remember, even if you may be an entrepreneur, when you run your business?
Your brand is the personality of you as a person. Your brand has to be distinctive and unique from everyone else in your field and a bigger form of you. How do you intend to brand yourself? What contingencies or relational clearances are necessary for you to disclose to others? If you would switch employers, would you say you need to make a significant move? How difficult would you say it is to change? Do the circumstances match the style of you that you currently are?
These questions may cause some difficulty, and so they should. And in applying these questions, you should talk to people who are outside of your particular career.
In line with this, hobbies and family play a huge role during career exploration. So, at a minimum, your lifestyle and your communication with friends, relatives and significant others already have to be interesting, entertaining (not become a hindrance) but thriving.
As you can see, many variables affect the decisions you take. Nevertheless, if you want to avoid another career, you should asked yourself these five questions. There’s no good or bad answer, but you would live long enough to do a lot of research. Learning what makes you tick, requires finding the things that make you happy, healthy and, above all, happy.
