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Position Your Passion
for Your Next Job Now!
by
Debbie Benami-Rahm, DBR Career Services
Recently, I had a real "heart to heart" talk with
a friend of mine about how much of her weekend she had spent doing work for
free. What really impressed me was the fact that she was the most exhausted, yet
the happiest, I had ever seen her!
She works full time Monday - Friday. So, what's
this working for free thing, on top of her regular full time job? Why is she
doing this? Because she loves what she is doing on the weekends. She is driven
to make her goal. She is working very hard to make her new career happen.
She is committed and has decided to "position
her passion" to pave the way
for a good paying job in that career as she builds her resume and gets more
experience in this new career.
If you have decided what you really want to do
for work, then you have to "position your passion" to get the job you want. You
may have to work for free to make it happen and/or work additional jobs on your
days off, for weeks, even months at a time.
Just like in sports, you position yourself and
your team to win. Do the same for your career. You set up a game plan for your
new career and you position yourself to win! It all starts with your passion and
dedicating practice time to move into your new career.
Sound exhausting? Yes - it can be, but think
about this: How tired are you when a friend calls and invites you to do
something you really love to do and says they will treat you? How likely are you
to get yourself together and rush out that door to meet him/her? Same thing
here: you are going to do something you love and it's costs you nothing. On top
of everything, you will have a great time doing what you love.
See how easy this can be, when you look at it in
a different light? One key - you must LOVE what your passion is. Not like, but
LOVE it. Your motivation to
do it for free and during your free time, will be much greater when you LOVE it.
So what do you think? Work for
free on your time off doing what you love? You just may reap some, or all, of
the following rewards from doing it:
• Make the "people" connection to find a paying job.
• Gain the experience necessary to land a paying job.
• Gain the confidence to make it happen
• Find the support to make it happen.
• Learn the "ins and outs” of the specific industry to make it happen.
When you love what you do,
you will go to any lengths to do it. Eventually, you will get a paying
job doing what you love because you have been able to "position your passion" to
get you where you needed to be to make your dream job a reality.
Additional Food for thought: Many times
volunteer/unpaid work leads to paid work!
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