C for Career, C for Crisis !!

 So, hoping that publishing long stories in the name of blogs isn't a big crime, I continue to do it again!! My friends complain about getting-deep-sleeping while trying to go through what I call as blogs! I have been reading a lot of blogs lately. Food blogs, travel blogs, blogs about cooking/baking,  anything but technical which is most essential for me, right now! I love reading food reviews, reviews about new places around town, doing a little research before heading out somewhere – this is basically what I have been doing lately! *guilty*

      This particular blog coming from me (especially) may sound wrong to so many people I know. But when your mind is filled with To-do or not-to-do kind of situations & whether you are doing everything right in your life, you just write-off! I was even told to take up consultancy for a living because all I do is give pieces of advice to people around me & it helps, sometimes. Funny thing, never really helped me and that's what I am gonna do, AGAIN!

     I have come across many people in my life who see their goal towards life & work as opportunities to reach some top of mountain, to get a sense of achievement, some reward for the job-well-done. These are the ones who think of ONLY profit & what they will gain if they reach that level. For people with such goals, promotion is what matters.

     And then there are few for whom goals  would mean getting noticed for the work. It’s about security. Stability. For all that working-late-hours, mid night meetings – calls for which they have worked so hard for, they don't want to lose it. These are the ones who want to be responsible through-out, avoiding danger, doing the task assigned to them, someone people can count on. For people with such goals, stability is what matters the most. 

   For people with promotion focus on their head, they take risks in life which land them   in hot water. The fact that they will be innovative, creative in their minds, seizing every single opportunity to get ahead everywhere will remain the qualities that distinguishes them from the rest of crowd. They will not think twice before crushing anybody else’s chances of going front.

   Being someone people can count on, one always focuses on getting every detail done, thoroughness, fineness, accuracy in every single piece of work they do even if it means work done slowly. 

 

              When you see yourself headed in million different directions at once, you start to explore. You don’t explore much, but you do enough to keep going. When someone tells you choose a career where you will enjoy your work, believe that you do the work happily & not by cribbing every single day, you just nod & think in your head “Yeah, it’s never gonna happen”!

   Like some people deal with midweek crisis, I have been dealing with Career – Crisis for a while now. Even though I am not able to decide it for myself, I’m gonna write about it,anyway…!!  Choosing your first career or changing one can be an anxious trip for anybody. This happens when you are exposed to lot of different cultures, but never been actually giving importance to any.

      For someone who has scored good marks throughout their schools, colleges, graduation - one fine day, getting placed in a company that comes to college that promises an amazing salary package ,  somewhere outside your city just when you think you need to live an independent-life, which will sound like a double bonanza to you.. that might be a dream come true. But that is not 100% true. You enter that corporate culture only to realize something else. Its like you order Masala Dosa & all you got was plain Dosa. Okay, I am horrible at explaining such things, so lets skip to main deal!

   You know you want to do something amazing, but it always comes back to something that doesn't define you completely. I had a breakdown. Okay not just one. Fine, I broke down n number of times. So, the most common things I am hearing these days from people close to me are "follow your passion", " do something that you love" - which may not be an useful advice to me being the clueless soul as I am now.

         When I was in college, when I was growing up, I was passionate towards way too many things in life.. but it was ME who decided doing something I am passionate about  - that's impossible. I have had passion & love towards (well.. ) most of things ( and few people :D !!) in life. I am passionate towards music, singing, writing blogs, photography, cooking, baking, travelling, planning events, managing crowd, talking ( not so confident about most of it) but what the heck..!!  I always look for motivation. From people, from around the city, from watching videos, reading blogs. But it hasn't been helping me much. Maybe I haven’t met the right people or not reading the right things. That's what I tell myself before I skip to reading something funny. But the skill set & values you have learnt growing up… will that always match with the passion you have towards a career? It should, right?

   You don't know how you will feel (in future) when doing something different, but still go on predicting that it may not be correct or maybe something’s wrong along the way.Are passion & love towards something, the only roads to choosing your career? Does that always work for everybody ?? I'd like to believe that if those aren't something that gets you where you want to be, then the skills & values you have achieved though your academics - that is what you should start with. But then, there are quirks to everything. 

   If that is something you own - Ur values & skills, you also need to seek career that gives you the right motivation in every way. Or else you will feel out-of-place. I have this feeling that I will sabotage my career with unrealistic plans all day long. The plans that only run in my mind, so beautifully executed but never in reality! Even though I know how happy it would make me, I am just not up for it, yet! And here I'm giving gyan about "If you don't do something you like, you wil never know how you feel about it" - Its sabotaging, alright !

  There are plenty of people (I'm sure) who have decided to change careers to do something they love & wind up hating it but the one thing I admire about them is the courage they have to actually make up their mind in deciding. That one decision which they will not regret for the rest of thier lives. In their defense, if you haven't done anything, then how are you supposed to know if you will be happy with the path you have chosen.  

           I met this wonderful gang few months back when I was helping a friend conduct a cooking workshop & we were talking & I told them about how this crisis is getting under my skin – they told “this isn’t even an age to do such thinking, go out there, enjoy , live your life” & started laughing at me! 

Funny, how one man’s misery can be another man’s joy :D

Wish me luck ! !

I have met some amazing people along this way, been to some fantastic places, food photography, blogging/ Story telling, adventure ,managing a photography page – been going through a lot of good things – some amazing things that I’m greedy for more & more!!

Before I end this Not-so-Short Blog ( I tried, U knoww?), signing off with this lovely song that has kept me going & sometimes karaoke-ing too :D 

Don't stop believing

-Sin