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time, you have completed your list; you will now have a good idea of type of career you want to pursue, and under what circumstances and in what environment. Now here is secret, once you have completed your list read it, then put it away. The best time to read answers you have written down is just before you get into bed. Do not force yourself to think about it. Just let you're good friend, your sub conscious sort it out while you are sleeping. The next night just before you climb into bed take your list out and read it again. You may find that some of answers you wrote down do not appeal to you anymore and you want to change them. Don't worry or let this upset you just take out a fresh sheet of paper and follow same procedure, only this time write down your new answers. For example, your first list may have gone something like this: - Indoors, looking after animals, working nine to five, wearing a uniform, to be head zookeeper, working with all types of animals. Your new list may look something like this: - Indoors, looking after sick animals, working hours to suit, wearing a uniform, to be a veterinary sister, working with all types of animals.
The reason your list has changed is your sub conscious is telling you, you would be far happier working hands on with animals rather than becoming a head keeper, which will eventually make you into an office worker. Head keepers have an awful lot of paper work to do, which you will hate. You would be much happier working and tending sick animals. You would get a great sense of achievement and satisfaction when animal recovered. Which you would not get being tied to a desk shoving bits of paper about.
Keep repeating this exercise until your answers no longer change. Now you have foundation of career that you will love and enjoy. More importantly, you now know type of career you want to pursue.
So where do you go from here, you have bases of type of career you want and under what conditions you would like to work. The next obvious step is to find out if you need any qualifications to secure a position in your career and if so what they are. How do you do that, well there are a number of ways, most obvious being to ask somebody? Say you have your sights set on being a police person, then go to your nearest police station or precinct and ask. Another way to find out what qualifications you need is to go to your local library. Alternatively, you can see a career's counsellor and they will tell you exactly what you require.
The next step is to obtain any qualifications you require, which may mean going back to college or university. I know this is not always as easy as it sounds, mainly because how do you live while you are obtaining your qualifications. This unfortunately is main obstacle for most people. However, not all is lost because there are ways and means to get around problem. However, main ingredient for your success will depend on your determination and willpower. One of most common ways for you to attend further education is a grant of some description from government. How do you find out about these grants, again simply ask. Look in your local phone book under GOVERNMENT, then under Department of Education. Telephone them and ask them what is required for you to qualify for a grant and what grants are available. If for some reason you do qualify for a government grant; do not panic, all is not, lost yet. If you are lucky enough that your parents can afford to send you to college or university and help you, until you get on your feet. Then you don't have a problem, if on other hand your parents are not in a position to help then there is another course of action you can take and that is to do a home study correspondence course. To find information for which is right course for you, look in your local phone book. Under one of following, Career Counselling, Colleges or Universities and telephone them. They will be very happy to help you and point you in right direction.
The latter is most difficult of all above because it calls for a lot of willpower and determination on your part. The simple question you have to ask yourself is "how bad do I want to succeed". A home study course means just what it say's, you study at home and send in course work at regular intervals. This course work is marked and kept on file to become part of your yearly exam. However, there are a number of drawbacks with home study courses and this is where your willpower and determination come in. Firstly is cost of correspondence course, how do you pay for it. The answer get a job, "hang on" I can hear you say "you are taking me on a wild goose chase". No I am not. I know it looks complicated and you feel like you are going round in circles, but believe me you are using a means to justify end result. Again we get back to your willpower and determination, how soon do YOU want to get your qualifications. The obvious answer is as soon as possible, so you do a little maths. If you are living at home with your parents you work out how much money, you need to earn per week to pay your way. Your board and lodgings for example. Then you find a part time job that will give you necessary funds for you to survive.
Makes sense doesn't it. However, there are other drawbacks to home study courses. The most common complaint is that you never actually get to see your tutor. It is all done either over telephone, through mail or by e-mail.
Set yourself a programme on paper and hang it up on your bedroom wall were you will see it everyday. Your programme must be set up in such a way as to take in all your requirements. For instance you are working (at your part time job) X amounts of hours a day, on X amount of days per week. So you will study from A TO B hours every day. Except on weekend when you want time to relax, enjoy yourself and recharge batteries for next week. Then stick to it regardless of distractions. Make your friends and family aware. That these are hours you are going to devote to studying. Therefore, you do not want to be disturbed. Make sure you get your assignments in on time and before you know it. You will have your qualifications.
OK, so now you have your qualifications now where do you go?
The next step is to find a company that is willing to employ you. This is not as easy as you think. For one thing, you will come up against old adage 'have you got any previous experience'. The obvious answer is NO, because you have just left school, college or university. (Except if you have done a home study course. But your part time job may have nothing to do with career you are now trying to enter into). So how do you get experience if nobody will give you a chance? The way to get round this is you may have to take a job that requires fewer qualifications and does not need any previous experience. For example, if you want to be a police person you may have to take a job as a security guard in interim to gain experience.
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