How To Make Your Tech Career More Meaningful In Egypt

Finding purpose is a difficulty for many people. This is especially true if you have been working for more than 10 years in your career, and used to be motivated about things at work such as practicing what you have trained yourself for, receiving a promotion that changes your level of lifestyle, or managing a group of intelligent and skilled people. Even if you’re not old in your career, you might lose the thrill and excitement you use to have through the many obligations you used to have, which results in you losing control over how you spend your time. This loss of motivation might be resolved through meaning and purpose. Though difficult to describe, meaning is one of those things that, if found, has profound advantages.

Work For A Company That Has Purpose

Participating in a firm that accomplishes something worthwhile has grown to be so significant that it now influences their employment decisions. We see companies (especially startups) here in Egypt make meaning and purpose part of their culture. These are usually the best places for your to work at. If for example, you work for a tech company, the purpose may be finding ways for technology to solve problems. Here, the meaning becomes solving problems for human beings, which can be very purposeful. One of the benefits of this is that it allows you to go through projects that you might find boring for you, and remember that however tedious the work you do may be, you’re doing it with a goal and a mission in mind.?

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Take Up Volunteering

Everybody's daily work and routine professional tasks takes most of their time. However, when you get the chance to help your community, you should definitely go for it.

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Whether you're a leader, manager, or just a normal employee, it is frequently sufficient to assist people in investing their effort in projects they are enthusiastic about, even if you don't feel like you have a chance to donate, or mobilize your own time or corporate resources to support a great cause. With all the economic issues Egypt is going through, you should remember that many Egyptians are having a very tough time, it might be the best time for you to become a volunteer. This way, we guarantee you will find the meaning you’ve been looking for.?

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Take Up Coaching

Enabling others to achieve the degree of prosperity you have achieved is another way to search for purpose, even if their pathway subsequently diverges from yours.

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If you’re a leader or a manager in your organization, providing professional coaching for people in lower levels can be extremely meaningful. In many occasions, people have plans in mind but lack the means to carry them out. Helping others discover their way leads to achievement and purpose for them, but it also offers you wonderful benefits. You don’t have to be a manager to do this, you can be a person with 3-4 years of experience, enough to offer help and advice for a person just starting his or her tech career.

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You'll believe you had an effect and an impact. You may not have improved Egypt? as a whole, but you undoubtedly had an impact on that one person. That has a lot of importance. And it is encouraging when individuals return and share with you how it changed their lives and gave them purpose.

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Become A Tech Thought Leader In Egypt

Realizing your role in the greater technological society in Egypt and contributing to its growth in a way that inspires and motivates you are essential to discovering purpose in your job. Publishing blogs related to tech and your profession, or blogs about issues confronting your sector in Egypt, as well as giving talks at conventions or meetings, has made me feel closer to the company objectives and more inspired by the job you're doing.

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Perhaps finding significance in what you do may be as simple as returning to a society where others aspire to be in your place.