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Because I don't know what I want to be in my life

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RE: Because I don't know what I want to be in my life

Surabhi Dewra
Surabhi Dewra
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  • New Delhi


  1. Dear friend, a very tough question to answer unless I don't know more about your aspiration but let me take a shot and help you.
    This is a very common confusion, in fact each one of us have come across this feeling: " I don't know what I want to be in life :(
    My 2 step fundamental to move to clarity:
    How do you want to see yourself in next 1 year, 2 years and 5 Years with respect to work responsibility, kind of work environment you see yourself working and kind of lifestyle you want to live.Once you have written it down, ask yourself what will you get to these goals of yours and are you doing enough for it ?



  2. Important one, speak to someone whom you can consider your mentor. Try to speak to someone outside your influence circle. Your influence circle mostly includes your family members, your friends and your colleagues. They are great support system but they will often get judgmental about what you can do and what you should doand what you want to do.

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  3. Get more clarity on your interest and aptitude. Getting to know your interest and aptitude factor through career test. It can greatly help you make informed choices. Moreover, having a clear strength analysis of yours will help you tremendously
    Hope this helps. Wishing you a great success and clarity in life.

RE: Because I don't know what I want to be in my life

Ajit sankar Mallik
Ajit sankar Mallik
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MD PhD,(CABMM) and University Hospital Zurich
  • Zurich

This is a typical query asked by freshers and even experienced professionals at various transitional points of their career.

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I can suggest few aspects to decide things with logic.


1. Write down all your strengths and skills you could do independently. Based on this, go and choose courses from the next point

2. Search and look through lots of online courses (search MOOC i.e. Massive Open Online Courses) like Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/ and Skillshare: http://www.skillshare.com/ to scan and check what exactly it means to be in a profession (what does a banker do, a project manager does, what are different educational training, sometimes you can work from home as a freelancer doing multiple skill based work online, take some relevant courses when you feel you should improve yourself on certain parameters, you can even take lots of courses to earn certificates even sitting at home from prestigious universities across the globe)
You can even take courses on photography, making Apps on mobile platform, how to cook, how to do web designing: all from your home, if you have a decent internet connection and computer.

  1. Give yourself time to do as many courses as you can and try to develop whatever excites you the most. At this point, you could even try or network with various people/ friends to visit different facilities to see and experience yourself how things are done OR doing a short internship for few weeks. This can streamline your thought process towards few streams/ job profile.

4. Try short contract based jobs (temporary) to see how do you practically like it. You can offer to work without any financial support just to explore if you like any working environment or not.

5. If you can get through above four options sincerely, I am sure, you will develop some skills, liking and options to think what you can do best or if you can do many things jointly. One can do lots of things to earn a decent living with hard work, good planning sitting at home! or Get back to me with your current background for a small chat. we can find out a new direction together!

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