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Five Things You Should Know About Your Future Career
1) You will most likely live to be over 120 years old
If you are in high school or college right now, medical technology
will progress enough in your lifetime that you can expect to live
past 120 years of age.
This means you might want to take a few hours now to plan your
career. What's a few hours and a few money when you have
another 100 years to spend?
2) Without a plan, you are like a ship without a rudder
Without a career plan you will be blown off course by the slightest
breeze.
College students are well known for changing majors, losing
credits, dropping out, or taking too long to graduate.
Without a clear career direction, or at least a few selected career
options in place, they wander from major to major. When times
get tough, and the classes become hard, self-doubt begins to
creep in.
Having a firm career direction will help keep you on track during
tough times.
3) You will have more than one career in your lifetime
In the rest of the world, it is becoming common for a person to
have more than one career in a lifetime. Doctors and attorneys
tend to stay in the same field of work, but engineers, computer
scientists, actors and entrepreneurs may change the type of work
they do as many as five times or more.
4) When in doubt aim high
If you are torn between becoming a doctor or an engineer, aim for
the highest paid career that also has the most demanding
educational requirements.
If you try the hardest first, and decide it's too tough, or you just
don't like it, at least you will have tried it. It's easy to move to a
field with lower educational requirements.
5) Do what you like and the money will follow
If you work at something you like, you will be good at it, and the
best people usually rise to the top. However, don't do something
just for the money unless you do not have any better options.
It's almost impossible to be successful doing work you do not
enjoy. Actually you can do it, but you will hate it and life won't be
much fun.