What to Consider When Choosing a Career: The Important Factors.

There are many things that affect our choice of professions at times, especially while growing up. Taking myself as a case study here again, what really stopped me from being an accountant?

Not having quality people around to guide your choices in life can be very difficult at times. Back then, children just woke up and started dreaming of what they wanted to become, just because they saw those things on TV or heard about them.

Being an accountant would have really helped a lot, but maybe I was too naive and didn't actually understand what life meant, or, should I say, I didn't take all opportunities well.

I remember a lot of us decided to be in the art department just because we wanted to be lawyers, while others pushed themselves into what we will call the commercial department just because they wanted to be an accountants or finance officers too. Though doing all this might be right, but at times people ignore their ability and intellectual capacity when choosing what they want to become in life.

Career choice is an important fact

(1): Interest and Passion: Understanding the choice of profession that you have a high interest in is significant; loving what you're about to do is the best favor you can possibly do for yourself when picking a career.

(2): Personality: Always consider looking at your personality and how willing you are to venture into those things. For me, your person must be fully ready to face all sorts of challenges and difficulties that may arise along the way.

(3): Earning: There is always a financial advantage when it comes to deciding a profession. Understanding what you can derive from a profession before going fully into it is essential. Always take into consideration the level of financial freedom it will bring at the end.

(4): Skills and Qualifications Required: Do you have the skills required, and how well can you push to get all the qualifications needed for your choice of profession? All this is definitely important to be fully aware of.

(6): The job market and future prospects: what is the prospect of your choice of career, how relevant is it in society, and what level of demand is there for it out there? This and many other things need to be checked before selecting a career. The level of demand and relevance should always come first.

There are numerous individuals who end up struggling to find their feet in life, especially those who decide professions without getting the knowledge and requisites needed to get along with those things. Even at time, parents also affect the choice of professions; that too has indeed affected numerous individuals today, and life becomes so hard for those individuals.

Having in-depth knowledge and being around the best set of people really matters, and to me, I sincerely see all this as part of what influenced my choice of career, though I have no regrets today.

Having a more profound understanding of what you really want to become in life right from the onset is significant, and on most occasions, it helps not to be misled by anybody.

Irrespective of where you find yourself, always make sure that you have full knowledge of whatever you are going to lay your hands on, and also don't choose a profession based on emotional feelings or friends' advice.

Always understand what passion is, and make sure you understand what you're doing. It's significant that your strength work is in accordance with your choice of profession

Thanks for reading and this is one of the topics I did on #threadstorm some days
ago