Mark those that you do not feel you would be able to deal with again in a work environment.
6) Take a break, by now you should be totally overwhelmed with all of these ideas and facts running around your head and you should probably put your notebook somewhere safe for a couple days and not look at it. When you come back to it, you might be surprised to see that you have even more to add to it.
7) Ask some close friends/relatives to help you complete the lists if you are having a difficult time with them. Ask them to be objective and to help your memory of events and jobs so that you can get an accurate view of what has worked and what hasn’t in your past employment.
8) If you are having difficulty with this portion, there are several sites that might be able to help you in determining career paths.
9) Compare the results of your interests and your experiences. If you put down that you were interested in photography, but you haven’t yet picked up a camera, just think it might be fun, now is the time to cross photography off your list. What interests do you have left that are backed up by some type of experience or education?
10) Look at the interests that are left and begin to write down all of the jobs that are available in those interests.
11) You should now have in front of you a list of several jobs for which you have an interest and some experience/education in. Work with your list of life skills to determine if any of those positions would not fit your personality. Does a job require you to be on the road visiting companies and you just are terrible at following a map and always end of getting lost. This might cause undue stress and have you end up leaving the job. Is there a job that always starts at 7 AM and you can’t seem to get up and moving much before 9 AM? Match the positions with your strengths to find a position where you will be able to grow instead of feeling frustration.
12) Look again at what you disliked and liked in previous positions to determine what is important to you. Do you like the structure of a large company, where each day you know exactly what you are going to do and how long it will take you to do it? Do you like the excitement of a new company, being there on the ground floor and watching and being a part of the growth of the company? Do you want someone in the background to oversee your work, yet leave you alone to complete it? Use these to determine which type of company you would like to work for (or whether you would prefer to be self-employed).
