Your Career
Remember the career advice you received at school? You fill out a form or a computer program on your likes and dislikes and aptitudes. It spits out a list of traditional dead-end, zero-fun, mind-numbing jobs. The list never includes dream- fulfilling opportunities: guitar hero, treasure hunter, explorer, urban artist, astronaut, trader or author.
Even more important it ignores the far more important life choices such as:
• Work just a few hours a week and spend the rest of the time (insert your ideal activity here) – for example saving the planet, reading every science fiction book ever written, building the kingdom of God, surfing, travelling the world.
• Find my true vocation where I love it so much it isn’t work, it’s joy.
• I don’t know what I want to do and I don’t care. I’m going to start doing the things I love doing and never compromise. I am going to keep gravitating to what I love until I find my place in the world.
All careers' advisor jobs should be terminated. The world would be a far better place if all careers advice offices had no people, just a sign that said “Take form”. The form would say this:
• Do what you love doing.
• Don’t compromise.
• Ignore your income.
• Become the best you can be.
• Change the world.“Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.” - Pablo Picasso
"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it." - Oprah Winfrey