Getting Your List of Possible Ideal Careers

Once you've created your purpose statement (see post from 1/4/11), you need to find careers that fulfill that statement.  This is a blue sky exercise where you write down every single idea that comes to mind that fits your purpose.  Know evaluating beyond does it fulfill your purpose or not.

Hopefully you've ended up with a pretty long list.  If you haven't been censoring yourself, then that should be the case.

Now, start prioritizing.  No - don't evaluate on feasibility or money or other people's reactions.  Evaluate purely on your emotional reaction to that career.  Does it make you feel excited?  Do you feel warm and fuzzy when you think of that career?  Do you immediately tense up?  Are you scared? 

Use whatever feelings arise to prioritize your list.  The better you feel when thinking about being in that career, the higher on the list it goes.

Next up, "rational" evalaution.  :-)

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