My school, my parents and my college had done all they could to prepare me for the real world. Now, it was up to me to go out there and make something of myself.
This is what one year of Adulting has taught me about Work, Life and everything in between.
“I don’t know what that ideal work life looks like. I know I want it. I know I am willing to work had for it. And I also know that I am not living that life yet.”
What’s the solution to this problem?
Where to start and how to start?
When we make a decision to invest lakhs of rupees and two to five years of our life for a particular college, what are we really thinking?
How do we think about our ROIs? Do those investments and returns make sense after we pass out?
This article is about offering a perspective of a degree holder to the students currently in college or thinking of applying to a particular college for higher education.
The hope for this discussion is to offer students an approach to think about making college decisions and help them in understanding the real value of a college education.
“Do I need a personal brand?” is probably not the right question anymore. That ship has sailed.
The more appropriate question is “How do I choose to build this existing digital footprint further? How do I to grow this personal brand?”
In this blog post, my attempt is to provide a mental model, a tool to help you in brainstorming your own WHYs, your own identity. This is the important step that we need to get right before we start intentionally growing our personal brand.
How we can find better opportunities for ourselves? Can we prepare for these opportunities in any way?
While we can always rely on serendipity and good fortune and believe that “If it’s gonna happen, it will happen”, there are a few things we can do intentionally.
It doesn’t take grand gestures or sweeping changes of lifestyle to access better opportunities. All it requires is little changes and we will see how these little changes can help us make a big difference.
How do I choose the right career for myself?
It’s one of those questions that we have to ask ourselves, at some point or the other. While the answer is definitely not easy, it gets worse because everyone you know will have an opinion on what you should be doing with your life.
However, there is a huge difference in telling somebody else’s story and figuring out your own. This post is an attempt to address the latter.