Tips to decide your career .

Musab Shaikh
2 min readJul 17, 2021

We have all hit that roadblock in our life regarding career. What career should I indulge myself in? Which field of work is best for me? How to find out the best career for me? So here are some tips on how to select your career option…

Write down your career options

One of most basic and simple yet very important thing. This tip is not necessarily limited just to your career options, anything you want to think about or remember, Just write it down with the reason you want to do that and place it somewhere you can see easily. Studies conducted by Psychology Professor Dr. Gail Mathews, at the Dominican university in California show that your are 42 percent more likely to complete your goals when you write it down.

Understanding the role of your career in a society

This will help you set expectations for the future and helps you in being conscious regarding your job. When you have a clear motive, it helps you to boost your learning.

Read. Watch. Listen. Engage.

To help you be aware of your career options, you need to immerse yourself in the field. Start watching youtube videos, there tons and tons of videos for literally everything on youtube. Search anything even remotely related to your career. Your search engines have a system to show you stuff which you more frequently(algorithms). Listen to podcasts and read books and articles. Engage in the community connected to your career and keep yourself updated of the latest changes.

To deduce

Writing down and brainstorming about you future, also engaging with related communities and getting a gist of what your your career will do a lot of significance on deciding your career.

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Musab Shaikh

Hello fellow reader, this is Musab Shaikh, a data science enthusiast and someone who has a curiosity to learn new trends and technologies.