There’s 2 kinds of people; those who go out looking for employment opportunities, and those who create them.
Looking for them works, if you persist and if you take the time. But creating them is proactive, and puts you in control of exactly what you’re trying to achieve.
6 years ago, I decided that enough was enough drifitng between various careers. I decided that I had to take the time and effort to IDENTIFY EXACTLY what my ideal career would be.
So I studied everything I could on the topic of ‘finding my ideal career’ and ‘careers planning’.
I soon realised that once I narrowed down the ideas and fields, that it didn’t matter if there weren’t opportunities to do what I wanted. I realised that so long as I was sure that I would provide VALUE to other people’s lives or businesses, and they perceived it as VALUE and were prepared to pay for it, then I could CREATE opportunities to do this.
And that’s what I did.
My advice for employment opportunities, and opportunities in general is this:
If you can’t easily find them, create them.
I determined that there was a market, and made plans to connect myself with the right people, to say and do the right things with these people, and to CREATE OPPORTUNITIES for me to deliver the value I had chosen to in exchange for payment.
If you are looking for employment opportunities, I urge you to give this thought. It can be quite a PASSIVE process, unless you make it active.
Ever seen this quote from George Bernard Shaw?
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
Most people are ‘reasonable’ in this respect. But if you can be ‘unreasonable’ and adapt the world to suit you, your market, your skills, talents and interests, then you can end up making a highly enjoyable living, and you increase your chances at becoming good at it too! That’s progress.
If you would like to know how I created my own employment opportunities, then I strongly urge you to start with the book on the right of this page - The Pathfinder.
If you’re in the UK you can buy it at Amazon UK - click here.
If you’re in the USA, by it at Amazon.com - click here.
It’s a great start to this entire life changing process, it costs very little, and the return on investment for such a small price is huge. Of course you’ll only know and believe that if you buy it, study it, and put what you learn into action. Otherwise….for now…I can’t help you.
Once you’ve been through this book, keep checking back to this site where I’ll be adding plenty more resources to help you in your careers planning and creating employment opportunities.
All the best. Stay tuned.
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