How to Find What You Love When You Don't Know What You Love
Loving what you do will benefit you both personally and professionally. You will be filled with a sense of fulfillment and purpose when you spend your time doing work you care about. Job dissatisfaction creates burn out, frustration, anxiety, depression and an inability to enjoy time off because you dread the coming workday. But while you are unlikely to perform well when your work bores or frustrates you, you might be very successful in a career that excites your passion.
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Determine Your Aptitude And Passion
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Visit a guidance counselor or a career counselor. They will administer an aptitude test, which will indicate where your gifts and skills lie. Aptitude tests are widely available and can also be self-administered.
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Get out your daily planner and highlight the things that you enjoy doing at work or school, as well as in your free time. Make a list of all of these things that you get enjoyment from doing.
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Ask one or two people who know you very well to describe what kind of career they think you would love to do. Take notes on what they say.
Make A List Of Potential Careers
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Place your aptitude test, your list of things you enjoy doing and the list of suggestions from your friends in front of you. These are clues to help you find the work you love.
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Highlight any potential career that appears in two or more lists. For example, if a friend suggests that you'd be a good teacher and helping tutor a child is something that you listed as an activity from your current schedule that you enjoy, teaching would be highlighted.
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Read job descriptions for the careers that you have highlighted. If you can see yourself doing the job, and are sure you would enjoy it, it might be a job you would love.
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