Most of us will face this dilemma, choose a career that you love with little money or choose a career that you hate but it offers great money. While there are people believe that it is better to achieve financial stability first before thinking about your career interests, there are others believe choose something you like to do everyday is well worth than anything.

Money Power
Let’s face it. Money is power! It also brings honor to your family, your parents will be proud of you if you help to change your family financial status and elevated your family social status. With enough money, you can pay off any debts and be debt free for the rest of your live. All your basic needs can be met easily. Your family is well taken care of and even protected from any hefty medical bills that suddenly occurred. As a result, you can enjoy better quality of life, time and future.

While money is indeed important to ensure quality of life, it shouldn’t be the only essential thing in a typical career.  Ask yourself are you happy with your current job? Do you dread going to work everyday? Are you hoping that your career will bring you fun, fulfillment, and challenges each day?

A Career You Love
If you choose a career that you love, it can really make a drastic difference in your life. It’s because if you love the work you do, you get more of what you love in terms of happiness, satisfaction, and a growing enthusiasm which keeps you going and motivated everyday. In addition, it makes you become more successful in your chosen career.

How to Select the Career You Love?
As Jay Farlay, an American psychologist said, “First you need to discover your most important interests and inclinations…” and that is really true. In choosing careers, what matters is what you’re made of and what you like. Jay goes on to say that “the kinds of activities you enjoy, the kinds of settings you prefer, the kind of technology you like to work with, and the sorts of people you like. This understanding will lead you to activities that spark your excitement and enthusiasm, work that taps your creative edge, and a lifestyle that is deeply satisfying.”

When your career answers all those things, it is sure to be something that you’ll continue to love working on.

Besides, it may not be worthwhile to take too many chances with the careers we choose. Your career makes up a great part of your life. If your career gives you much satisfaction and purpose, there will be no regrets when you leave this world because you’re leaving a sort of legacy of a career-fulfilled life.

Helpful Methods in Choosing a Career
Below are some simple but helpful tips on how to choose a career that you love.

1. Have a Proper Mindset
   The first thing to do in choosing a career is to have a proper mindset. A proper mindset helps set your priorities straight, and provides you with a guide on what you need to do in order to decide if you should stay at your current career or not. If you don’t consider this first step, you may end up choosing a career that won’t give you that fulfillment that you are seeking for in the first place.

   In having a proper mindset, it’s best to keep yourself up to date with helpful information. Educate yourself. Here are two books that you may read for guidance and inspiration to help you gain a proper mindset on careers: “48 Days to the Work You Love” by Dan Miller and “Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type” by Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger.

2. Set Your Priorities
   Setting priorities help create a roadmap of some sort for your career goals. So it’s best to sort your thoughts out for this. Ask yourself questions. What do you really want out of your career? What are your needs? What is more important to you? You may find that these desires change from time to time, so look where you are at in your life right now. It’s important to take a good look at where you are and where you want to go.

   Think of these things as you sort out your priorities to help you learn more about yourself and the career that would be more appropriate for you. A quick quiz here might help.

3. Get Out of Your Comfort Zones
   The next step is to take action. That means getting out of your comfort zones. This may be difficult at first. But remember that everything may seem difficult at your first try. When you have this thought in your head, it will be easier for you to move out of your comfort levels.

   Yes, this is totally challenging. But this is where you can make good changes in terms of your career. Opt for taking baby steps. Don’t choose to make big steps because this may overwhelm you and make you want to go back to your comfort zones. So, take small steps, and encourage yourself to take more of those little steps until you see the change you want to see, and be able to free yourself of your level of comfort that doesn’t seem to be helping that much in the past anyway.

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It could be stressful when you are facing dilemma like this especially in such stressful and competitive world. Nevertheless, we live only once and since our career make the biggest part of us, we should do something we love and enjoy everyday. As the saying goes, “Do what you do and the money will flow”.

If you think otherwise, please leave your comment below.