Pursue the Career You Desire – Amidst any Personal or Professional Challenges

Is your plate so full with personal and professional tasks, that you don’t have time to think about your own career – the one you really want to pursue.

Two professionals Eva and Mia, can throw some insights with their life story..

First job

Eva and Mia were smart, intelligent, active and energetic girls in their youth. They went to graduate school and finished studies.

Eva got campus selection to an IT company, during her studies itself. She was very happy, her family and friends were also happy. They were proud of her.

Mia did not get through campus selection. She struggled few months to get her first job because of the market situations. It was her down time, as all her friends got job before her, and she was like the one left over in the jungle alone. But she had her own strengths, mental toughness and her strong belief that things will work out in the end. She believed in that, and though tough, she put her efforts each day and worked to earn her first job.

After 2 years

Eva got salary hike, promoted to next position, was earning much more than Mia.

But at times, Eva started to feel tired of what she is doing. Sometimes she thinks back on her interests and likes, she wanted to be a fashion designer, but her family and society convinced her that IT is the right job for her. So she went for that and accepted that as her job. She is now financially independent, ok with her life and choices, when she gets free time, she draws beautiful designs in paper, and get energized.

Mia also got promotion and hike. She is now happy, financially independent. She had the passion for drawing, not as good as Eva. Now after getting job, she has money to spend for herself, so she decided to learn drawing. She used couple of hours on weekend for nurturing her drawing habit.

After 3 years

Both Eva and Mia got married and have toddlers to take care of. They continue working in their corporate job. With a toddler, a fulltime job and being a house wife, both had time management struggles.? 24 hours was not enough to complete the personal and professional tasks. As they moved to senior roles in career, their responsibility in office increased. They have to work more hours now. Along with that, have to handle the pressure of responsibilities of senior roles.

Eva totally discarded her dream to become a fashion designer. She accepted her job as her fate, continue doing that, even if she likes or dislikes. It still gives her the financial freedom and respect from society and family. She still draw well, in rough papers while bored during meetings. Sometimes when she feels very frustrated with life’s troubles, she take a paper and pencil and ‘draw out’ her feelings. The designs were amazing but the world never got the chance to see it.

At some point, one of her friends asked her, why don’t you pursue your dream, she replied ‘oh, it’s late now.. I have the family, kids.. I can’t quit the current job just like that.. I don’t have that much financial backup to start a business on my own.. I don’t think I will get support from everyone around.. I am not meant to do my dream job? ‘

Mia was also in more or less same situations with personal commitments and professional responsibilities. She also felt 24 hours is not enough to finish her activities.. The work pressure and responsibilities, extra work, along with taking care of kid and households, made her too occupied. She now has no much time to dedicate for her drawing class. She could not be regular in the class, once a while she makes it.. for many months that also could not happen. But she was not ready to give up her interest in designing. When she had to get some dress stitched for her kid, she draw it and asked the tailor to make that way. It gave her lot of happiness and satisfaction. Self-designed dress for child! She felt proud inside. No one around her understood this happiness though.

After 3 years

Eva is in senior role now. She performs her tasks well, but within, she did not felt satisfaction in doing what she does. But she has to continue the job, for all those good reasons. She lived the life as a middle aged, burdened with the responsibilities of life, going with the flow of fate, gave up her dreams, suffering the life’s struggles silently because she know ‘life is filled with sufferings and have to bear that, live through that, no other solutions…’. For a second person, she lives a good life, have a good family, job, lifestyle. But within her, she is ok, but not in the so-called ‘fulfilled life’ or ‘satisfied career’. They are just glam-words for her, which no-one can attain!

Mia, restarted her drawing class.

She now goes with her kid! She enjoy that, her kid loves that.

Mia gained some confidence that it might not be a wrong idea if she start her own business in fashion designing. She did some planning and calculation, figured out the investment needed. Starting as a studio need more investment which she cannot bear at this point, and she has no or least support from people around her. She cannot ask for help from them. So she decided, to start small, within her possible capacity now. She cannot quit her job as it will be a financial blow. She started to save little by little investment for her business. She cut down her extra expenses and saved that too. She did a 2-year plan on how much she can save and it was not a bad planning. It gave her confidence that this is something which can be worked out.

Next trouble was with time management. Handling all responsibilities, she was not able to find out time. Lot of things to do, never ending.. One day she decided to sit down and list down all tasks. She observed there is a pattern for that.. every week few tasks repeating, there are some redundant tasks which can be eliminated, there are some she can delegate to others, there are priority and non-priority tasks.. She created a good task list factoring all the elements and decided to try it out from next day. It worked wonders. She could save some time now, which she used for working on her business.

Story short… Within 2 years Mia started her own shop, found her passion, living the passion and earning from that. She is happy, fulfilled life, satisfying job, have time for near and dear ones, she is LIVING her life!

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Moral of the story

Its not about

the handful of tasks,

what skills you have now,

how supportive your environments are,

what job you are doing currently,

or what financial state you are in now...

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It’s about

what is your mindset,

your willingness to work for your dreams,

your courage to fit in Yourself in Your life,

and the Never give up attitude.. !!!

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