When I was talking about career basics, I touched upon the work/life balance questions you need to ask yourself.
These questions help you decide how career-minded you are.
As a career coach, one of the most common problems I come across is people who feel they need to be career-driven in order to be considered successful. But that shouldn't be the case.
Sometimes, what work/life balance question reveal is that the life element is far more important than the work element - and the work element only exists in order to get by and enjoy the life element.
If you're this kind of person, then you need to realise it, because pushing yourself to be career-minded is just going to make you miserable.
For people who are life-minded, their career usually takes one of three paths:
- they do the job that earns them the most money in the shortest space of time so they can enjoy life
- they do a job they really enjoy, so their work life becomes part of their job life
- they plod through an undemanding job that uses up as little of their brain as possible, so it encroaches on their life as little as possible.
If any of these sound like you, then you're life-minded, not career-minded. You need to take this knowledge and use it to your advantage.
