Looking For New Career Ideas?

Where Do Your Interests Really Lie?

If you know where your interests and passions lie, new career ideas can emerge.

Try the following questions to help work out where your interests truly lie. Take your time to think about them and answer them fully.

• What do you enjoy doing in your leisure time?
• What would you rather be doing?
• Which of your interests would you most like to pass on to your kids?
• What inspires you?
• What past passions have you lost touch with?
• What did you love doing as a child, as a teenager, when you first started work?
• When have you been so absorbed in something that you lost track of time?
• What were you doing?
• If you were accidentally locked in a bookshop overnight, which section would you camp out in?
• If you won the lottery and did not have to work for money, what would you choose to do with your time?

Use these questions to identify things that light you up, that really enthuse you. These interests and passions are clear indicators of the kind of thing you should be looking for in your work. They are your source of new ideas.

Jot them down in your Career Change Project File.

Do I hear some yes, buts…? Are you thinking that this is all very well, but work is meant to be serious, not fun? The things you enjoy in your spare time are not a suitable basis for new career ideas.

My response is – 'says who?!' Where has that belief about work come from? Why does fun have to be kept for your non-work hours? If you hold beliefs like this, ask yourself are they relevant and valid for you today? Is it time you challenged your thinking?

Let your interests be a source of new career ideas and inspiration!

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