It’s a question that’s troubled most of us at some point in time.
It is something still troubles me…
Main badaa hokey kya karunga?
In the words of U2… and I still haven’t found what I was looking for.
And I often get approached for career advice… HA! HA!
These are some notes I’d scribbled a long time back… maybe fun to read if not useful.
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When you grow up, will you be a Chartered Accountant [Ugh!]?
[Ps: And I almost became one… clearing my entrance, interviewing through 7 rounds for Arthur Andersen – the leading CA firm then, now Ernst & Young / Accenture. Decided not to join them one day before my start date! Thank GOD!]
Will you be a film maker?
Will you be a diamond merchant [Echh!]?
Or a rock star?
Will you study to be an Engineer?
Or a Doctor?
Will you get an MBA?
Or a Doctorate?
Will you get rich?
Or have to slog all your life?
Will you stay here?
Or move abroad?
Will you be employed for someone?
Or start your own business?
I don’t know.
I bet you don’t either.
And you don’t really care at this stage.
This is the simplest and truly the only piece of career advice I’d ever give anyone…
“Do what you want!”
It sounds too simple, and at some level, obnoxious… but it’s not and I think it works.
Let me explain.
There’s really 3 parts to this one simple statement.
1. “DO what you want.”
Don’t just talk about it. “Ek din main picture banaunga… “
And then look at others are doing it – shifting from architecture / interior decoration or whatever to making a movie. As you think about how you could have been that… or would have probably made a better movie…
Go out there and make it moron!
DO it.
2. “Do what YOU want.”
Don’t become something that your dad or mom want you to be.
Don’t study something because your friends are doing that.
What YOU want.
3. “Do what you WANT.”
What you really want.
And honestly, it doesn’t really matter what you become, what career you choose as long as it’s a career YOU choose.
As long as it’s a dream you chase.
It’s a passion you have.
It’s a choice you make.
Don’t’ worry about whether you will get rich or not.
Or whether you do that here or abroad.
It doesn’t matter whether you have your own business or are employed for someone.
What matters is that you’re working only for yourself.
Find what you want to do. First. And Foremost.
And then go ahead and do that.
The money will get sorted out automatically.
Often enough, you may say, that you don’t know what you actually want.
Bullshit.
You always do.
You are actually only waiting for reaffirmation / reassurance from outside when you seek another point of view / advice.
Go with the gut.
It’s rarely wrong.
And DO WHAT YOU WANT.
You won’t have to ‘work’ a single day in your life!
It is something still troubles me…
Main badaa hokey kya karunga?
In the words of U2… and I still haven’t found what I was looking for.
And I often get approached for career advice… HA! HA!
These are some notes I’d scribbled a long time back… maybe fun to read if not useful.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
When you grow up, will you be a Chartered Accountant [Ugh!]?
[Ps: And I almost became one… clearing my entrance, interviewing through 7 rounds for Arthur Andersen – the leading CA firm then, now Ernst & Young / Accenture. Decided not to join them one day before my start date! Thank GOD!]
Will you be a film maker?
Will you be a diamond merchant [Echh!]?
Or a rock star?
Will you study to be an Engineer?
Or a Doctor?
Will you get an MBA?
Or a Doctorate?
Will you get rich?
Or have to slog all your life?
Will you stay here?
Or move abroad?
Will you be employed for someone?
Or start your own business?
I don’t know.
I bet you don’t either.
And you don’t really care at this stage.
This is the simplest and truly the only piece of career advice I’d ever give anyone…
“Do what you want!”
It sounds too simple, and at some level, obnoxious… but it’s not and I think it works.
Let me explain.
There’s really 3 parts to this one simple statement.
1. “DO what you want.”
Don’t just talk about it. “Ek din main picture banaunga… “
And then look at others are doing it – shifting from architecture / interior decoration or whatever to making a movie. As you think about how you could have been that… or would have probably made a better movie…
Go out there and make it moron!
DO it.
2. “Do what YOU want.”
Don’t become something that your dad or mom want you to be.
Don’t study something because your friends are doing that.
What YOU want.
3. “Do what you WANT.”
What you really want.
And honestly, it doesn’t really matter what you become, what career you choose as long as it’s a career YOU choose.
As long as it’s a dream you chase.
It’s a passion you have.
It’s a choice you make.
Don’t’ worry about whether you will get rich or not.
Or whether you do that here or abroad.
It doesn’t matter whether you have your own business or are employed for someone.
What matters is that you’re working only for yourself.
Find what you want to do. First. And Foremost.
And then go ahead and do that.
The money will get sorted out automatically.
Often enough, you may say, that you don’t know what you actually want.
Bullshit.
You always do.
You are actually only waiting for reaffirmation / reassurance from outside when you seek another point of view / advice.
Go with the gut.
It’s rarely wrong.
And DO WHAT YOU WANT.
You won’t have to ‘work’ a single day in your life!
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