Everybody’s good at something, do you know what you’re good at? Sometimes, you don’t need to have some revolutionary business idea or something that’s going to change the world. Sometimes doing what you do best, and doing something that you love to do can be more than enough.
It is true that finding out what you’re good at isn’t always the easiest task. But once you do find it, you do have a higher chance of making a long fruitful, and very satisfying career ahead of you. Start by trying to forge some skills together or at least what you enjoy doing.
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Discover your skills
Discovering what you’re good at is far from being an easy task, but it can be a very fun task. You may be good at a lot of different skills, if you are, then you’ll want to have a sort of checklist. This checklist can include
- How profitable could this be
- Is it stressful?
- Am I good at this skill?
- Is this something I could easily get tired of?
- How enjoyable do I find this?
You can put anything on this list, but the end goal is to find something that you can enjoy that you can turn into a profit. You may want to figure out what you’re good at first. You can think back at what you enjoy doing, you can ask friends and family what you’re good at, and you can even just mess around and try your hand at stuff. If you’re a really good cook, you can try your hand at selling sauces.
If you have a good following on Instagram then you may have the skills to become a social media manager. If you love photography and have all the right equipment and skills, then a photographer may be a job for you. When you’re discovering your skills, just be sure to have fun with them.
Think about the path that you want to take
It’s so important to think about the path that you want to take. Even if you have a skill that you excel at, if you take the wrong path, there’s a chance you’ll develop a distaste for the skill and your career. Choosing the right career path is a challenge for everyone. Anybody rarely gets it right the first some time, even by the second time you may not even get it right. This is a part of life and there’s nothing to be ashamed of. Now more than ever, there are so many options for people to take when it comes to their career path.
Are you someone that loves to work at home? What about being surrounded by coworkers? Are you someone who loves corporate culture? It’s also important to think about the location that you currently live in and whether or not this could help or hurt your career trajectory. It’s so important to think about all of this and have it put into consideration. If you’re someone who is against corporate culture and you like to be yourself then building your own business with the skills that you’ve honed may be ideal, especially if you’re after achieving freedom within your career.
Finding any career path is going to be challenging and very stressful. If you don’t know what you can do or you don’t know what you want you can look online for free resources to improve your skill set and you can even read books or blog posts from other people about finding a career that may be best for you. Having a career isn’t some size fits all, you can have multiple career paths if you feel like that’s where you’re going to get the most fulfillment.
Begin taking action
Once you decide what you can do and what you want to do, you can then be taking action. You may need to do some studying, practicing, networking, building a portfolio, or even look into a virtual payment terminal if you’re going to begin an online business. You don’t need to be perfect with what you do and what you’re trying to set up. It’s just far more important to try to get things prepared.
For example, if you decide that one of your best skills is in photography and you want to become a product photographer, then you’ll need to start up a portfolio. This portfolio will be an online web platform (such as a website) and you’ll build onto that portfolio by taking photos of products and models with products. Afterward, you can then begin applying to jobs or reaching people who are searching for product photographers.
For me, personally, takinf action meant starting grad school. I went to undergrad for documentary filmmaking, realized that probably wouldn’t give me a carreer I could live off of, and entered the corporate world sort of by accident. After working in accounting and then transitioning to admin, I realized that I actually love doing Human Resource-type tasks, so I’m in grad school to hone my skills there and make myself more marketable. You just kind of have to figure out what direction not only that you want to go in, but what actually makes sense for your path.
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