What Job or Career Should You Do... When You Don't Know What To Do?

If you're like many people, you may know that your current job or career choice isn't right for you... yet, you may not know what else to do.

Accordingly, you may ask yourself what you want to do... Which is great if an answer is immediately forthcoming... but what if it's not? Unfortunately, the question “what do I want to do?” often implies that there is one, definitive answer, when in reality, there may not be one definitive answer. In fact, you may have one answer at one point in your life, only to have it change several times throughout your job or career. Or you may have a handful of answers at once. Or you may simply stumble over the question altogether because you just can't come up with any answer.

If you find it difficult to answer the question of what you want to do, then I recommend you forget about even trying... and instead focus on an alternative question: "what do I want to learn?" So... why not get some paper and a pen and start listing all the work-related things you'd like to learn. Next step is to re-arrange each thing you wish to learn in order of priority. Your third and last step is to think about what kind of career or job is likely to teach you what you want to learn in that order of priority. Or at least what will deliver your "high priority" learnings within the next year.

And don't feel that one job or career - or indeed, organization - will necessarily deliver all the skills and knowledge you want. Nor is this list not static. Chances are that what you want to learn will change over time... and so too may your career or job choices. So be ready to update your list once or twice per annum.

Nevertheless, you have a solid idea of what skills and knowledge you want now, and which jobs or careers are likely to deliver these skills and knowledge.

Of course, I'm presuming that basing your next career move on what you most want to learn is how you will ultimately find a fulfilling career. You may prefer to base your next career move on other considerations - like what will pay you more or what seems "safe". But if you're unhappy in your current job or career choice and want to make a change, but don't know what to, then the "what do I want to learn?" approach is probably your best bet.

Therefore, forget about asking yourself "what do I want to learn?" and, instead, have a go at the three-step process described above. Take action and... smile! You're on your way to a better career and life.

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