Job V/S Career

Don’t ever let somebody tell you can’t do something…You got a dream, you gotta protect it…if you want something, go get it". This is something which I always fight hard to live by in my life. (Pursuit of happyness)

In the fast pace of today's practical life, we always limit our dreams. For today's executive generation, the maximum limit of dreams is a good job, marriage and children. In the middle of the war for survival, no one wants to be someone different in the crowd. No one dare to dream differently. Can we call that a dream...No it’s a job

We all had dreams in our childhood. We all had high opinions about ourselves, and somehow we knew and felt that we have a role in this world. We had a feeling that, "The whole world is for me". Nothing in this beautiful world felt denied.

That's what we call a Dream

A dream is something which you really want to execute from deep inside. So, there might be a musician asleep inside a Mathematics Professor, there may be a Novelist asleep inside a MBA mind.

This is what we call a dream or a career.

One should plan their career intelligently not hastily. Job is a need, Career is Indeed.

A job is essentially for a short period and satisfies the immediate needs, be it financial or social. Career is a long term goal and is equated with ones aspirations and ambitions. In today’s case it determines the future.

But interestingly it is you that should be deciding your future not the situation. Though many a times financial needs and moral support involves a career decision. Still one must never compromise in any given situation for a situational job.

Today i see my friends taking up jobs or appearing for placement process that has nothing to do with their dreams. And the explanation they have is I am being practical/Realistic...

I don’t say there’s any harm in being that career-oriented also. But you must have your preferences clear in your head. Why do you have to have a dream, if you are so concerned about your professional success?

Let me conclude, quoting from the famous book Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - "When you want something, the entire universe conspires in helping you to achieve it...”

The post is inspired from one of the best lecture that I had attended in my whole life.

(Captain ... Captain we bow down to you...Salute GR)