Choosing the Right Career for the Ideal Job
Many people go into careers and jobs without thinking if this is suited for me or 5 to 10 years later they realize this is not what I expected.
Many individuals spend months or even years not happy with their careers. Some may take any available job while others may follow in their parents footsteps. This may work out for some but many others never discover their true career skills and are dissatisfied with their jobs.
Careful career planning is essential in fulfilling one’s job search that will give years of work enjoyment and satisfaction. If you are going to work it might as well be something you like to do and skilled at doing. Knowing what your skills are and what you are good at is the starting point in choosing the right career.You will unlikely be completely satisfied in your career unless you use the skills you enjoy and are good at.
Ask yourself some questions such as : What interests do I have? What sorts of people would I like to work with?
Don’t confuse an ideal job with a job title. You might enjoy working in one place and hate working in another. Both could have the same job title but be entirely different jobs.
Let’s say you were looking for a job as a sales person or a teacher, these would be job titles. The ideal job within the salesperson category could be in retail sales, real estate, manufacturing sales representatives, car sales, etc. A teacher might teach kindergarten, elementary, middle, or high school students. Or a teacher might teach adults or special need individuals how to read and write. So don’t choose a job just by it’s title but by the different job areas under the title that fits your interests and skills. People are more likely to stay in a career and be successful if it suits their interest and skills.
It would be wise to spend extra time thinking about what type of work you want to do. Some key factors to consider when planning a career is your skills, interests, earnings, location, work environment, kinds of people you like to work with, etc.
You may have to go back to school for more education, but don’t let that hold you back from that ideal job. Education and earnings go hand in hand. The more education you have the more money you are capable of earning. Although earnings are important, liking your work is equally important.
Having a college degree is definitely a plus in career planning, but many trade, technical and other schools offer similar opportunities to individuals without a college degree.
A well trained electrician, plumber, police officer, auto mechanic, computer repair technician, tool and die maker among many others can do very well in todays economy. There are many jobs that only require one or two years of training. Many companies and organizations have on the job training while paying your salary. People in sales, small business, self employment and other job areas do quite well without a college degree, although for better positions more education is often required.
Your career will most likely change over the course of your life no matter how much career planning you do. That makes it important for you to recognize what you are good at and develop those skills throughout your life. As your interests change you may want to develop new skills.
Good career planning is very important, but it should be done in the context of what you want to do with your life.
Lamar Deane
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Choosing the right career for me?
Here is what I think:
I love art, I’m a good artist, I’m creative; so maybe a graphic designer?
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I love children, I like to teach; so maybe a teacher?
I am obsessed with solving any puzzle, from verbal riddles to mathematical logic problems such a sudokus and nonograms, when there is a puzzle I have to solve it. Especially in my pre-calc class whereas we have a calculator to solve problems and skip the steps, I still like to try to find the answer myself. I adored geometry when we had to find a bunch of different angles and such with minimal information… call me crazy but it literally got my blood pumping.
What career goes with intense puzzle solving like that? To find Z you have to find A-Y first?
Even though I know it’s fictional, I like what Dr. House does in House M.D.
I would love to be a doctor, but not an ER Dr. I don’t want to treat people who’s limbs are torn off and they are almost dead. Moreso I want to be a doctor to find and treat illnesses with minimal gore. (blood and such is ok, but I don’t want to have to see too many bodies turned into pulp.) So in your opinion what would be the most ideal career in the medical field for me?
ACT scores were(best of 2 tests):
Composite- 29
English- 32
Math- 26
Reading- 34
Science- 27
(this was before pre-calc & some chemistry, I will be taking it again.)
To sum it up:
1)What careers deal with intense puzzle solving?
2)What medical career would be most suited for me?
3)Based on the information I’ve provided (intrests & skills), what would seem to be the best career(s) for me?
Thank you.
No, not a Nurse or Dr.A. Would pathology or Internal medicine be ideal?Anything that deals primarily with diagnosis and treatment of illnesses.
The pressure is ok, I’m not saying I can’t handle pressure, I just would prefer to not deal with ER trauma like Crash victims and such. I know that not all doctors have to be ER doctors.
I also like the concept of being a Neurologist because brain and nervous system functions fascinates me.
ok then
maggieloel
21 Feb 10 at 6:20 pm
the only to choose a right career is to follow your heart.. i went to school for welding, and am now a sub teacher.. im only 23.
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hicksdude85
21 Feb 10 at 11:22 pm
You could be in Mensa- Intense Puzzle Solving
Medical Career Most Suited for you would be either Nurse or doctors assistant (not too much pressure but still good pay and the life of a doctor)
Based on the information you’ve provided…either a
Graphic Designer
Art Teacher
Teach art lessons out of home or something
and finally
you can start selling your art
if you want to become an artist you have to be willing to live very poor though
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E J
21 Feb 10 at 11:24 pm
Have you considered engineering? It isn’t quite puzzle solving, but it is using the principles of math, science and economics to solve problems.
From your interests, I’d suggest biomedical engineering: the design and construction of prosthetics, implants and medical devices. A guy I know is designing replacement intervertebral disks as a replacement for spinal fusion surgery.
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I’m a licensed engineer.
rapierlynx
21 Feb 10 at 11:26 pm
your background sounds a lot like mine! i was good at math and science in high school (especially geometry, calculus, chemistry, and anatomy). love puzzles and problem solving. i wish i wanted to be a doctor, but i never liked the idea of having to treat people one-on-one. i don’t like to touch dirty things
i graduated with a degree in chemistry & a minor in biology. chemistry – particularly analytical chemistry – has the problem solving that i like coupled with a high degree of precision. it sounds like you would probably be good at any field in science or engineering.
if i were going by my own feelings about medicine, i would probably choose general practicioner. neurology is also a decent field, because it has minimal goo but it would most likely involve a lot of symptoms that you would have to piece together. going along those lines, maybe psychology or psychiatry? you would be able to diagnose illnesses, but it would require little-to-no physical examinations and more talking to people and figuring out what was wrong with them. and many of the mental illnesses are very complicated with multiple symptoms.
it sounds like you would be good at one of those. good luck!
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JRD
21 Feb 10 at 11:28 pm