How to master your career
Tags: career, beginners, productivity
Published: 2022-10-26 14:02:59

## Introduction

Have you heard about below advices on social media or some of your friends told you them

- You have to follow your passion.

- If you wanted to love your job, you have to make it follow your passion.

- Free yourself from your bored job and start looking something you are passionate about.

- Your wage is the price for getting rid of your passion and your dreams.

While we are going through this article we will try to spotlight on the truth of **passion** from "**So Good They Can't Ignore You**" book point of view, we will discuss about where the passion comes from, and how people love their jobs and show creativity, and what matter most is how you also can reach out to this stage to obtain a successful career path.

## First Step : Don't follow your passion


> Following your passion not only a bad advice, but it also can be dangerous


Many people think that what makes other people successful in their jobs is the passion, and they support their thoughts about passion with that each one was born with a passion toward something specific, and each one should work hard to discover what is that thing, but the truth is that's not the case for the following reasons 

- Researches and studies proved that human not born with passion regarding to specific job, but maybe with some sort of hoppy.

- Discovering your passion requires a lot of time and expertise for a lot of fields, and you may not reach out to something.

- The truth is that passion comes from mastery of your job, and to get to this stage, you need a lot of time and hard work, so you can't easily say that you are passionate about something.

So, for the above listed reasons the advice of following your passion is wrong.

But, if following the passion isn't the right thing what we should do to have a great career path.

## Step Two : Adapt the craftsman mindset


> Your nowadays hard work, opens multiple paths in the future


The financial rule said that "if you want to obtain something rare and precious, you have to give something rare and precious", So, the craftsman mindset encourage you to acquire different skills at your job to be able to exchange them with a great job position.

And here comes a question, what are the treats of great work environment that deserve your skills?

The writer mention that the great work environment which provides below to their employees

- **Innovation**: where the employee has the chance to show up his creativity without being tied with specific rules and regularities and he can always challenge his skills and measuring the his improvements.

- **Impact**: where the employee can feel that his job affects people lives and makes it better

- **Control**: where the employee has the full control over his duties and requirements, not be bothered with micromanagement

- **Relation**: where employee can feel that he is a part of something not just a task doer

The craftsman mindset also says that, it doesn't matter what is your current job and how do you feel about it, if you are able to acquire more skills you will be able the exchange them with your dream job.

On the other hand, to be realistic there is nothing can be done perfectly, the writer mention that the circumstances the craftsman mindset can backfire you

- There is no enough space at your current job to show up your skills and be different from the others.

- When you feel that your work has no impact on other peoples, or it may harms the society.

- When your current job force you to be with accompany you don't feel comfortable with.

## Third Step: Seek for promotion


> No one owes you a great career path, you have to deserve it


Obtaining a control is something mandatory to boost your success toward a great career path, and we mean by control here is the space  of control over your work and activities,  which lets you do your work with the most suitable way for you. and the promotion is the shortest path to get this control, with promotion the micromanagement will be reduced and you have the ability to apply your thoughts and your way of work, therefore you can obtain more trust from your bosses so that you can perform your tasks in more comfortable way, so that the writer encourage you to seek for promotion at your job.

the writer also mention that not all places provide you with control, so you have to choose wisely for your next move the company will provide you with much control.

But while you looking for control you have to be careful and avoid these control traps you may encounter

**- Avoid the fake control**

Fake control is when you are seeking the control in a field or domain you don't have enough skills or information about it.

**- Control generate resistance**

You will encounter resistance either from your colleges or from your managers, because you are asking for something they are not familiar with, so you have to arm yourself with skills and trust to tackle this resistance.

## Fourth Step : Set a goal for your career path


> Any work you do can be a spark for a great career path


Off course getting paid is reason number one for getting a job, but setting a goal for your job like for a software engineer "make life easier for people by providing helpful apps", or for a doctor "helping poor people to recover from diseases", setting such goals for your career path continuously recharge your power to tackle the obstacles and acquire skills needed to have a great and memorable career path.
 
 
**So, to summarize the main idea about the truth of passion and how people can find it from the book and writer view**

Mostly the passion is the result of hard work and continuous learning to acquire the needed skills to tackle your job tasks in more efficient and best way, then you can exchange these skills with a job in place that satisfies your needs and match your personal goals, so that your job doesn't became something you hate anymore, further more you can innovate and create new things.

**And here list of advices from the writer to help you acquire a great career path **

- List the most required skills for your job and seek for acquiring them as soon as possible.

- Always look for someone you can consult to help you take better decisions.

- Seek for feedback from your colleges and managers.

- Try to but your ideas in execution to test their effectiveness.

- If you want to evaluate your ideas, always ask yourself are people ready to pay for it or not.

- Monitor how you are spending your day time to eliminate the bad and increase the good things.

- Use different methodologies when you are learning something new to tackle it quickly.

- Sharping your skills by challenging yourself and not staying in comfort zone for a long time.

- Mix between theory and practice to improve your skills.

- Set a goal so that it can be your compass to check if you are getting closer or far from it.

- Be patient, it takes time to mastery.

References

- [So good they can't ignore you book](https://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp/1455509124)

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