by Klaus Doring
A career is a rapid motion. A course of action. A professional conduct in life. A progress through life. What is a careerist? One, who rushes widely and makes his own personal advancement, his or her own aim in life.
When career doubts won’t go away? What if you’re not happy in your job? Is it possible that you’re in the wrong entirely?
My parents always (!) wanted me to become a banker. So far so good. Why not? Maybe I would have been happier in my job. Or, maybe not?
The pressure “to be” someone starts early in life, indeed. Not only my parents, also my peers and teachers began to exert their influence on me. Yes, I even didn’t know where my inclinations lay.
Being a doctor or a lawyer? Yes, I was interested in law and medicine at the time.
“The way that people pick careers is incredibly primitive,” said Nicholas Lore, founder of the Rockport Institute, a career coaching firm, and author of “The Pathfinder”. So, it’s no wonder, he said, that so many people are dissatisfied with their jobs. Me, too! Yes, count me in! Mass communication was not my subject, but publishing house management. So far, so good.
I always thought about a true calling for myelf. Sure, people whose careers aren’t the right fit “often feel like impostors, professor Robert I. Sutton, an organizational psychologist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, said. Very, very well said, Sir.
How about you, my dear reader? Are you also placing too high a value on the external rewards of job, like money, prestige and power? Sure, these things are indeed important. Hold on! The work you do and the skills your opportunity require and the value of your work are really more vital to fulfillment. Paperwork or not… . You think, you find a better career fit? Go ahead – but don’t expect that this is your life’s career!
I waited for my “better calling” experiencing many better and wonderful moments in life. I experienced also that what I did had been very much compatible to me, as what my parents thought.
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German Vice Chancellor Guido Westerwelle says there is “room for maneuwer” for tax cuts in the light of data showing Europe’s largest economy posted its strongest quarterly growth in more than 20 years. Wow, great! Congratulations! But, are you sure, Sir? Tax cuts? Sorry, it reminds me of your promises before the last elections…
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