Make Your Career Fit Your Motivation
Feel the need for a job change? The typical person in the work place will rotate through several job roles during his or her career.
- One person may find it difficult to withstand a particular job for more than a certain number of years.
- Others want to use their extensive experience more broadly, and seek guidance as to what job roles would best fit one's personal aptitudes and background.
- Still others sense they are ready for a change or are over stressed, but don't know why or what to look for.
Whatever the case may be, what personally motivates us is key to finding a job that we can do well and productively.
Paths - choices
Personal Motivation
One of the most helpful and edifying exercises is to think of stories about our experiences from age six to the present that help bring to light out natural abilities and motivations. These stories are about something we did or created that was very satisfying and enjoyable to do.
This can reveal preferred mental processes, and also abilities we preferred using when relating to data and interacting with others. These natural abilities are those that rejuvenate our energy. It is upon these abilities that we are to build our career, as explained in the following article.
- Manage Your Career - Job Fit and Six Interest Areas
What motivates you at work? What keeps you going, besides money (or what it buys), is likely uniquely different from the person you work next to. When you know what tasks you find motivating and satisfying,...
My Own Various Career Paths as an Example
My own history provides an example of the variety of job roles one can have throughout his or her career.
Most of a 19-year span was spent learning a minority language in Asia and translating the New Testament and Genesis. Interspersed at various times overseas I was a translation consultant, workshop event organizer, work coordinator and throughout the mother of two children and a wife.
Since then I've also been an associate personnel director and an academic training coordinator. I also was trained in career management and assessment.
Here's Susie's story.
Susie's Discovery
After Susie completed a package of career guidance assessments, she said, It confirmed that I had not made a big mistake getting into my current job. I had been worried that I had made a big mistake and seemed to be lacking in skills to avoid burnout, and this gave me way to not burnout. I knew very little about myself regarding what types of jobs or careers would be a good fit for me. Career guidance really helped me figure that out!
It also confirmed another possible job type I was interested in. I did not know before career guidance why I kept having a feeling that this other possible direction might be fun.
- Work Motivation for Occupations and Careers by Personality Type
Optimize engagement in energizing occupational tasks that fit your personality and see motivation increase.
When we discover enough about ourselves we can choose a more fitting job, or even hobby—those that employ our natural
- abilities,
- decision-making processes and
- environments
This will make us more productive in the long run and also energize us.
Some of us may have a combination of personality and interests that are quite complex. A deeper look at personality type and interests may be called for. Various career assessment tools can help sort those out!
© 2010 Deidre Shelden