Untold Five Career Strategies for Young Aspirants and Workaholics
I’ve always been fascinated with people who became super successful at
an early age.
Not
just millionaires and billionaires.
I’m
talking people who figured it all out while others are still trying to “get
their life together.” People who jump out of bed every morning, looking forward
to going to work. People who seemed to have “skipped the line” in their careers
without paying their dues like everyone else.
Some
say that these people just got lucky.
The
truth is, there are a few things that they know that the rest of us are still
trying to figure out.
Today, I’m going to share some of those strategies with you my beloved viewers through this article.
1. You don't need to take care of your obligations
“You don’t have to go through point B to
get from A to C anymore.” — Daniel DiPazza
When we
graduate school, many of us just take whatever job we can get. We might do the
whole “resume blasting” thing and try to get a job that is somewhat intriguing
as well as identified with what we contemplated.
What's more, from that point we can move gradually up.
But in reality, with the right methodology, you can easy route your
direction to your dream job.
Francine
Lee did a write-up where she re-designed Dropbox photos, and ended up
getting a job there. “Years of experience” is just a proxy for the value that
you can bring.
In the event that you can do the work before you land on your dream job, and demonstrate that you can carry worth to the table, then, at that point, you can alternate your way to the top, without having to blast out a thousand resumes.
2. Don’t be realistic, alter your reality instead
Your
reality is based on your perception. What's more, your insight is a component
of what you've been presented to.
A kid from a poor family might think it’s unrealistic to get a job a
company like Microsoft because he hasn’t seen anyone do it.
A girl from a middle class family may believe it's ridiculous to
construct 1,000,000 dollar business since she hasn't seen anybody do it.
A millionaire might think it’s unrealistic to be a billionaire because
he hasn’t seen anyone do it.
If you
don’t know what it takes to get to the place you want to go, that dream is unrealistic for you.
Yet,
you can change that reality by investing your valuable time to get what goes
into those fantasies.
Read books. Listen to podcasts. Consume as much information as you can
from the people you admire. Surround yourself with the people you want to be
like.
You'll ultimately begin to think like them. In the long run, their world will be yours. And eventually, their reality will be yours.
3. Pick a mentor over higher pay
All of
us in our 20s are basically competing to see who can impress other people the
fastest.
Furthermore,
generally that implies working at some organization that individuals have known
about, or taking in substantial income.
It’s tougher to get people to respect you based on the trajectory thatyou’re on. But in reality, that’s the only thing that matters. As Jeff Bezos
said,
“I always tell people, if we have a good
quarter it’s because of the work we did three, four, and five years ago. It’s
not because we did a good job this quarter.” — Jeff Bezos
Same thing
applies to your life.
Life is
long. Getting an additional a ten or 20,000 dollars a year won't make any
difference much in ten years.
But the lessons you learn from the right mentor will.
4. There
is no “passion” for you to find
“Passion isn’t found.
It’s cultivated.” — Cal Newport
We've
been educated for our entire lives that on the off chance that we simply
consider every option enough, if we just do enough “soul searching”, then we’ll
find our passion and everything else will become clear.
Not
true at all.
I had
so many different interests early on.
I liked
to write, read, research, create things, make things more efficient, and solve
problems just to name a few.
What
job would tie all of those in?
Maybe
law? Medicine? Lab research? Computer programming? Marketing?
What if
I chose marketing, realized I hated it, and wanted to do something totally
different later?
Ugh. It
was all so confusing.
Many of
us find ourselves in this position at some point, and we procrastinate on
choosing a direction because we’re afraid of picking the wrong one.
The
truth is, there is no “right” or “wrong” decision.
Pick something that sounds interesting and get good at it. Then, you’ll become passionate.
5.
Successful people are more risk averse than you think
The
media seems to make people look like “overnight successes.”
So we
tend to think that they take big risks. That they “make the leap” and hope that
it works out.
Thetruth is, successful people are actually pretty risk averse.
They
test everything on a “micro-level,” and only make big decisions when they can
practically guarantee that it’ll work out.
But it
isn’t sexy to show what they do behind the scenes, so no one sees it.
Don’t
take too many risks. Find the most practical way to get to where you want to
go.
That’s
how you get ahead of everyone else.
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