THE POWER OF FOCUS IN A MULTI-CAREER WORLD

When I saw the last topic suggestion for this week, what came to my mind was an hybrid of a plant. Naturally, every plant has it’s unique characteristics and flavor but over time, some botanist have come to see that there is need to spice things up a little for some really good reasons and that was how most plant hybrids came about. Working as a career person today, we often find ourselves always trying to hop on any opportunity that suffices because we fear that we might be missing out of better opportunities.

As a person, having multiple jobs is not a bad idea at all but then I will see it as something bad if you are not a master of any. No matter how lucrative you want to be as a person, it is just ideal that you have a place where it seems like you are the only one that can just do that particular thing better. Yes, there are so many people doing that particular thing but then whenever a service is needed in that regards, you are always the first person that comes to people’s mind because they know you will deliver a good service.

If as a person who does multiple things and you are not a go to person for any of those things, then there is a problem and at that point you should start reconsidering your choices. There was a story in which we were made to understand that 3 different people were given talents, to one was given 5, to another 2 and to the last 1. From these three persons, only the ones with 3 and 2 talents made good use of it and the one with just one went ahead to hide his talent. If I want to liken this to what we see around us today, that last person didn’t make use of his talent because he felt like his one talent was not talent enough so he just kept it hidden.

As humans, we are always quick to choose what we see that is more and we feel sad if we end up with the smallest share of things. Here is the bitter truth, there are some people out there that will be so fortunate to have multiple careers and still do very well in all of them but then that shouldn’t make you as a person see your one career as not enough. In fact you might even be more fortunate than those who have so many careers. What matters is that you are doing something and you are giving it your best.

I have seen so many people who are like that man that was given just one talent, they always feel like others are more blessed than them but they have barely even given that one talent an opportunity to show what it has to offer, like that man, they are hiding it because they think it’s too small or it’s just not worth it and they start trying to pursue other multiple careers. Friends, that one career choice is not bad at all as long as you are giving it your best and also to those who are fortunate to have more career opportunities, be happy as well and keep giving your best too.

The only disadvantages of having more than one career is that you don’t give your best to all of them at the same time but that is something that can be managed. While the major disadvantage of having just one career is that you might get carried away by the multiple careers of others around you and that might cause you to not see your career as enough and you might end up not giving your best to groom that career of yours and strive to be the best, instead you might just end up burying it and start following the crowd.

Learn to appreciate what ever you have and treat it like the best you can ever get and you will be fine. All you need to do is keep making research and always make sure to make upgrades when necessary so you don’t even have to worry about that career not putting food on the table and owning a good savings. Personally, I don’t have a particular preference to any, I’m just after giving my best to Whatever I can do. If I can give my best to 20 careers then I will go for it but if I see that I only do better at fewer things then I will as well give my best to those few things and still do just fine.

This is my response to the Hivelearners topic on ”MULTIPLE CAREERS OR JUST ONE”.