Do What You Love--5 Steps to help you get the career you want
by Dawn Fields
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1. Discover Your Passion
If you discover the one thing that you are most passionate about, you will discover God´s purpose for your life. Think about the one thing you would do everyday, without pay, if you could. What gets you excited? What do you like to talk about and debate over with your friends? What magazines do you subscribe to or browse through in the bookstore? What one thing are you most knowledgeable about? If you had a trillion dollars and didn´t have to work, what would you do? If you discover your passion, you will discover God´s purpose for your life.
2. Educate Yourself
Now that you know your passion, find ways you can turn your passion into income. Go to the Internet or the library and research your interest. What job would allow you to work in your fields of interests? Where do people with your interest work? What job titles do they hold? Do they work in an office or do they work out of their home, in the field, in a hospital? What are the requirements of a person who work in your field of interest? Come up with a list of as many careers and job titles as you possibly can that will allow you to do the thing you are passionate about.
3. Network
Network with people who are currently working in your fields of interest. Find organizations and associations that specialize in your field of interest and join. Go to their monthly or weekly functions. Don´t just attend, but be as active as you possibly can. Join a committee. Get to know as many people as possible, not just in the meeting, but get to know them personally as well.
4. Find a mentor
Find an individual or two that you admire who are presently working in your field of interest. Get to know them. Offer to take them to lunch and pick their brain to find out all you need to know about your field of interest. Ask if you may contact them whenever you have a question.
5. Conduct Informational Interviews.
Informational interviews are interviews where you interviewer a person who is knowledgeable in your field of interest to find out all you can about the field from an expert. Find a knowledgeable person who is working in your field of interest and ask if you could have 15 minutes of their time. Make a list of questions and concerns you have pertaining to your field of interest. These questions should include all things you want to know about the field, what the job entails, what requirements are needed for this job or career, what is expected on a daily basis, weekly basis, monthly basis.
Put these 5 principles to practice and in no time you will be doing what your love and living your life with a purpose. God´s purpose.
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Written by: Dawn Fields
Dawn Fields is a motivational speaker, purpose coach and author of "How to Discover Your Life's Purpose." Get a FR*E eCourse on "How to Get Everything You Want Out of Life" by sending a blank email to mailto:askandreceive@sendfree.com.
The author may be contacted at http://www.dawnfields.com dawn@dawnfields.com
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