Quote From: bigred80Hi
I know this is slightly off the topic of career goals, but it as close to my question as I could find.
For me to ask my question first I need to give a little background. When I left school I worked in a few casual jobs until I was employed Full time for about four and a half years. In that time I had my son and chose not to go back to work. After a few months of being an at home mum I realised that I am the type of person who needs to be busy or I go nuts and clean everything. So I went back to work. I left that job a few weeks ago because it was completely unsatisfying and my boss wasn't a nice person.
Anyway I have had arrange of jobs from cashier, to cleaner, to day care even the defence force and I still don't know what I want to do. I must add that I am only 25.
I have this feeling of wanting to go somewhere, I just have no idea where that somewhere is.
Anyone have suggestions on finding/changing career?
Thanks
Natalie
I can relate to you to some degree. My background is finance/accounting and after being fired from almost every job I have had because I tried to show them that the accounting needed cleaning up or they were week in this/that area - I finally went out on my own. I then found out that business owners were a lot of the times afraid to know what was actually going on - so let sleeping dogs lie.
I then heard about this book 'Rich Dad - Poor Dad' that was about the authors father who had an earned Phd in education, rose up to be Superintendent of schools and died broke - the other dad who was actually his best friend in schools dad never went past the 7th grade, owned a couple of businesses and when he died he left and estate of 10 million. It was about the way these two men thought. They only agreed that education was the best thing for you and Tuesday was the day that came after Monday! They disagreed on everything else.
Reading this book I found out where I was wrong, and have set out to change things which I am in the process of doing. I found out that I didn't want to 'as the author says - be a slave to a paycheck and wait for a retirement that may not be there'. The author says that most people do not use their brains to its fullest. The other factor he says is to create wealth - and that is exactly what I am attempting to do.
Rog
