by Paul Lines

Created on: August 08, 2007

How many times have you heard someone say, "I should have been an airline pilot (or police officer)!" Or "I wish I had chosen a different career." Too often is the reply I would think. However, I have never had this problem. In all my work life I have not once sat down and thought, let alone said, I wish I had done it differently. Why is that you may ask? The reason is simple. I have always secured the job that I really wanted. But it has often not been easy to achieve that position. Sometimes other have said to me, why don't you go and do this job or that job, but I always remained focused on what I wanted to do and won through in the end. Now I hear you ask the question how did I achieve that? To find out, join me on the journey of steps that I have taken to achieve my career job satisfaction path.

When I was quite young my father said "if you really want something in this life you have to focus on it and fight for it" and those words were very true. The first step was to focus. Before being able to see where my career path was, I needed to understand what it looked like. In other words I had to know what I wanted to do. After a considerable amount of soul searching I found myself with two job targets. Two sectors of work that I knew deep down I would really enjoy being involved with and that would give me fulfilment. These were maths (figures) and writing.

But which was to be the main target? Here I used a little bit of logic, though many tell me that I lack this attribute. However, the more I thought about it the more I became convinced that it was possible to combine the two in my early work days and use that route to reach a point where I could concentrate upon the one choice that I desired the most, which out of the two was writing. During my college and education years I studied and received qualifications in both accountancy (for the maths side of me) and English literature (for the writer in me). Therefore I was equipped for the task.

When it came to finding a career, I knew that the kind of writing I wanted to do, being fiction and non-fiction books, would take some time to generate a living income, so I chose accountancy, but not just any type of accountancy. I looked around for the speciality market I was interested in. Here is where the second stage of getting the job that I wanted came into play, that being perseverance and a dogged determination. I would not accept no for an answer. I kept knocking on doors, sending CVs and attending interviews

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