6 Guidelines for deciding Your Career

Here are the 6 guidelines for deciding your career:

1. Find your passion and align it with your career

2. Decisions are very unique to each person, what’s right for one isn’t right for the other

3. Own your decisions: Don’t let other people make decisions for you and don’t blame anyone else

4. Do an internship before pursuing a higher degree to confirm if you like that field/industry

5. Don’t do PhD if you want to be an entrepreneur or work in corporate sector

6. Spend at least one year in your first job

It was a good learning experience listening to Sohail Sb. He has really explained his personnel stories. I liked the way he emphasized on finding your passion and align your career with it. When you find your passion in a job, the job become an enjoyment place for you and you consider doing work as enjoyment. In this way you can excel and perform better than other in that field. So, all of them are really great tips. I liked his idea/ suggestion of doing an internship before pursuing your higher studies. The reason is practically things are different as compared to theoretically. May be you like concepts of something but you don’t like it implementing practically.

I shared these tips with one of my friend Jamil. He was really happy and engaging in the discussion. He specially liked the tip that own your decisions because in the end you have to accept responsibility of your decisions and their results. I explained him that in Pakistan mostly decisions about careers are made by parents, its good to listen to their decisions. But, its your life. Do what you are passionate about, because only this thing will make you happy and satisfied.

I have learned a lot of things by discussion with him. Actually he has experience of 1 year working in Health and Safety department prior to engineering. So, he said that these are very good tips to manage your career. The one thing we have some disagreement was the time span in which we should do our first job. According to me that should be 1 year. But he said that a man can know whether he can fit in that organization or not within one year then why he should spend at least one year. In the end, I agreed to his point.