when you are learning something new you spend a lot of time investing in that skill whether
it be coding marketing a soft skill whatever case may be and as you're investing more and more time
into this skill to either get a new job growing your career there's always this worry in our
heads of am I doing the right thing am I going to regret it what if I don't even like this in
a few years or a few months from now and this is a constant worry that I know so many of us
have had around am I choosing the right career how do I find a career that I really love I'm
going to share with you today how I was able to discover and find a career that I really love as
someone who's been there firsthand coming from the fashion industry and doing complete 180 into
Tech and even in technology growing in different roles I'm going to share with you some tips and
insight that I've really learned and how to hone in and find my dream career before we get started
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in the comments any questions you have or I'm curious to hear even have you found your dream
career are you still working towards it all right let's get into it [Music]
I see some of these kind of topics covered and one thing that a lot of people say is you know we're
not a lot but some people say is detach yourself from your career it doesn't matter you don't need
to love your career it's just a source of income but we spend more time in our career in our nine
to five than we do with our families with our friends it's probably throughout a large part
of our life the where we spend the majority of our time and it's essential in my opinion to actually
enjoy what you do if you don't you're going to be miserable you're going to test going into work
every day and if you think that you can completely turn that off after 5 PM you can't the energy that
you have through the day and how you feel about your work will continue to flow outside of work
that's why it's so important to find a career that you actually really enjoy maybe even love
that's up to you to decide as we continue to get older time becomes more precious and with the the
time being more of a value you we don't want to spend time in places that we are uncertain will
bring us a return or that we will really enjoy going back to the coding analogy here if you are
learning how to code and you're hitting some Road bumps you might be like is this really for me is
this something I really see myself sticking with long term what what if it's just something that's
temporary or it's a fad how do I know there are a few ways I can really help you uncover
if you're on the right track to get Landing your dream career and how to uncover what areas
to really spend your time focusing in for me one of the biggest ways was actually utilizing other
people so whether this be friends uh different connections and hearing about their experiences
now everyone's experience is completely unique and you can't base your decisions on someone else's
experience but if there is a trend after speaking to a few people in a certain industry for example
the tech industry and you're like this sounds really something I would like you know there
are cons but the pros definitely are stronger and something I'm gravitating towards is a good way
to get a sense of how other people feel about the industry that you're considering getting into or
more specifically the job or career path and for me this did a really good job of understanding you
go online and you see all of these pros and these highlights of the different career paths and it
seems all great but when you actually speak to someone who's gone through that process and gone
through that career you not only get the pros and the positives but you also get the negatives which
I think is almost more important in the situation that you are looking to land or grow into your
dream career because then you know what you're really in for yes you know the positives but here
are the negatives and are the negatives are you okay with those negatives or is it too much for
you another way that really helped me discover my dream career is to try different things where
most of my curiosity lied was around coding but I also too was trying other things I was trying the
marketing side of things I was actually trying photography for a little bit different kind of
skills to say is this something I enjoy and if it is something I enjoy maybe we'll be better
left as a hobby or is it potentially a career and for me if you want to learn a new skill or
play around or be curious about different things I have kind of a fun little rule that I put on
these which is the 10 minute rule spend 10 minutes every day learning this now what does this do we
all have 10 minutes that we can give to learning something new so first of all it takes off this
pressure of feeling as though you have to spend hours and hours a day to learn something new and
invest all this time only to not be sure if you really want to to go there or not and the second
thing this does is it makes you excited for me when I'm learning something new or exploring a
different area you know if I'm only spending 10 minutes a day it just it makes me actually look
forward to it versus dread it because it's a long hour or I have to commit so much time and energy
towards it another way that really helped me in understanding the career path I wanted and to
understand my dream career was to look back and evaluate my past so I actually looked back at at
the time I was working at a large company and I I was kind of unhappy I was I was doing software
development work I've been doing it for five years I absolutely loved the software developer
work itself but I just there was something missing and I couldn't figure out what it was
so rather than just completely Jumping Ship thank goodness I didn't and being like I was
going to abandon this and learn a different skill completely I thought you know what I'm going to do
is look back over the past few months even years at what I really enjoyed about this job and about
other bosses and other career paths I have done and then also to most importantly what I have not
enjoyed and through that I quickly discovered that for me one of the big things is I like The Best
of Both Worlds I love technology I love code being in the weeds with it but then I also love people I
love teaching I love educating can I combine that in any way well that's how I ended up in developer
relations and that's my dream career and I am so excited about that but it took a lot of time
I mean you've seen me grow so much through this YouTube Channel Through Me sharing my honest and
authentic journey in Tech and that even what you land your first job your first career maybe it's
the right industry and you're very passionate about this industry like I am about technology
but then a few years in you're just like you know what this career path this role path is
not for me it doesn't mean completely jump ship and abandon the industry but rather take a look
back at your experience and think back as to what you enjoyed and didn't enjoy and if it's more
you're not enjoying maybe a big company culture or bosses that will give you good insight as to
what the real issue here is is it that you're just completely burnt out and over a certain industry
and career path or is it you just need a change and something to kind of switch it up another
big thing for me is visualization I know you're probably thinking Tiff I don't want to visualize
like what are you talking about but just just hear me out on this one if you take a few minutes
and really think about where you want to be in five years from now in 10 years from now where
what does that look like to you does it look like going into an office every day does it look like
leaving a teen collaborating with people building really interesting technology what does that look
like to you and of course through our different experiences and as we grow as people this will
change to what we think we want today to what we want in the future but it really gives us a
good sense and a good roadmap as to what our wants and needs are and where we want to be growing and
that's a huge aspect too for me example when I was thinking about what I want in the next
five years I knew I wanted to be remote I knew I wanted a high paying salary there's nothing wrong
with that I knew I wanted flexibility those are the three things and is there such a world where
you can get all these three things well yes of course there is and one of them being the career
path that I chose and I love that I was able to tick off all those three boxes that were really
important to me now maybe some of these are less important to you and and one or two of them are
more important to you or maybe they're all equal but it's really key to understand as to where you
see yourself in the future so you can align your learnings and your career goals based on that
for me even if I'm not at my complete dream say I wasn't I am but say it was not my complete
Green Path or dream career just knowing that you're actually taking the steps to get there
itself is so rewarding and fulfilling I think that you can be like you know what
I know I have to make this step or do this role for a little bit to get to my dream career and
I think that's really important too is just realizing that your first job your second job
your third job might not relate to your your biggest dream career but it takes time and I
think the journey is so rewarding on its own just being able to know that this is the direction you
want to go into and the last thing I really want to highlight here is we evolved we evolve and we
change so what does that mean well for finding your dream career it's important to do all the
things I mentioned to really help hone in on where interests lies and trying new things
and applying the 10-minute Rule and meeting and networking with other people or even if you don't
like networking at the very least just talking to under other people to hear about their experiences
the biggest takeaway though is we have I mean I have a computer sitting right here we have most
of us do anyways we have the internet at our fingertips and with that comes a lot of power
we can literally learn whatever we want whenever we want I think the biggest thing for me is the
biggest secret I realized is don't overthink it if you are passionate and interested about something
and you have gone through the different steps and it just seems to really be a good fit then
just go for it I think we truly live in a time where what we do today what we do for the next
decade doesn't have to equate to what we do for the following decade meaning I feel like in our
parents generation or you know depending on what age you are but for my parents genuine generation
anyways it was like you pick this career and this is what you are doing for the rest of your life
maybe at the same company for the rest of your life that's not the case anymore you want to be
a coder for 10 years and then you want to go be a project manager you can do that it is possible
you can continue to upskill and you and utilize those interchangeable skills as you grow in your
career and maybe some of you disagree with me maybe somebody like nope we need to become a
specialist and focus in you can 10 years is a long time you can become a specialist in something and
then get tired of that and want to change it up and that is totally okay don't let your decisions
make smart decisions that you can see yourself in this career path for a long time but don't
make decisions thinking about yourself and for example 30 years from now because we don't even
know what the workforce will look like it could be a completely different set of jobs so I think the
most important takeaway here is just continuing to be curious continue to learn and be open to new
things as they come your way because at the end of the day your dream job your dream career will
continue to evolve is you do too and that's why it's so important to stay open alright I hope you
really enjoyed this video it is a topic I am so passionate about having evolved in my career and
getting to a stage where I absolutely love what I do but also being aware that that could change
and I'm okay with that because I'm building real valuable skills now and that can be transferable
and that's what you can do too thank you both for watching I hope you found this video very valuable
and insightful if you do give it that thumbs up and I'll see you all soon thanks everyone
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