3 Mistakes Aspiring Professionals Make in Their Career👔in Technology💾 and the Precise Changes I Would Have Implemented ⚒️
I have been working in IT for 20 years.
And in that time, I've gotten to do a lot of cool things:
- Smart City Concept
- Safe City Concept
- Drones
- State Crafting through Scenario Planning
There isn't much I would change about my journey.
But if I could go back, here are a few of the mistakes I made early on—and what I would have done differently. Here are my self-inflicted career mistakes:
1. If your Job is all what you wanted Then Welcome to the End of the World
If your profession is your dream job. Congrats, you're gonna hate it in no time.
You need to have your dreams on the side or you won't have a life. Ask the people who want to be doctors. They hate their jobs, they don't know where to go next coz they have reached the end of their vision.
That's why you see them to be the unhealthiest people on planet Earth (as if on other planets they are any different).
They suffer from what is called the Gold Medal Syndrome i.e. once you achieve it, there isn't anything else left to achieve in life.
Solution
You should be able to write or produce something from your very two hands to be happy in life. Take your hobby as a hobby, not a job.
2. Not Specializing
IT is very vast and there are so many fields and so many specializations. I thought that I could do everything.
Solution
I can do anything but not everything, I should choose wisely and then stick with it and that will be my superpower. Restaurants that offer everything aren't as good at sushi as the restaurants that offer only sushi.
3. Juggling a lot
In IT you go to work, to pay for certifications and then you study at home, to be able to go to work the next morning.
I have more than half a dozen certifications but *( here comes the but that negates everything) how much do I give time to my family and my health and networking?
Solution
Keep time slots for everything.
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