by Frida Runghen

Created on: June 16, 2010   Last Updated: June 17, 2010

Is a successful career the key to happiness? Unfortunately not always. It all depends for what purpose a career is chosen. Quite often people choose a particular career simply to follow the crowd. Another time its the fascination about the title, money and sometimes, it's an opportunity to impress others.

At that moment they were choosing that particular career, they thought they were right. They were happy to please others and felt proud to appear successful and accepted among society. According to them or preferably to what they believed, that that position in the company would rock their world and they would fly high, but ten years later, experience and maturity along the way taught them the contrary. The veil on their eyes is lifted and they see a completely different world. All the motivation of the past for which they undertook this particular career fade. The happiness disappears and the work place already looks unwelcome. Now the daily work has become a grind. Quitting is definitely not the appropriate solution as it equals changing seats on the same sinking boat.

The subject is now at a crossroads. It's a crucial moment and a decision should be taken. If he/she ignores that and decides to remain in the same position nevertheless, it will not be without consequences. The first step would be to keep calm and rethink the values within. There are important questions to ask:

What am I passionate about?

What's my purpose?

How much do I know about the subject?

So far I have learned that those above mentioned questions are the most three important ones to determine our future and our happiness.

"What am I passionate about?"

Is it writing, painting, working with animals? It's easy to find out as the subject will always be driven to it. If it's painting for example (it could be anything), no matter what you do for a living or what your current professional career is, you will always find time to paint. Do you feel happy when you are painting that you lose track of time? You are inspired and give way to your imagination to take control of yourself and forget about the surrounding? It's no doubt your passion and your natural talent given to you. It's your strength. You probably have to work on that to see how you can make that your new career now and earn your living through that.

What's my purpose?

What's your purpose in wanting to change your career? At the beginning it was the money,

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