A Different Choice of Major
If I could travel back in time, I might have considered a different educational path. If I had known what I know about work today, I might have taken a more conventional path. (It is not that I would have qualified for most of them, but who knows? I might have just ended up where I did.)
If I could map out the skills I should have learnt back then, this might be it.
Essential skills to develop before embarking on your career:
- 🧠Self awareness and self-care
- 💗Mindfulness & empathy
- ❤️🔥Motivation and discipline (Start with why, ikigai)
- 🤔Memory and recall
- 💌Maintaining friendships and relationships
- 👂🏼Active listening
- 🌞Positive thinking & reframing, gratitude
- 🏃🏋Physical health and fitness
- 🚧Setting boundaries
- 🗣️Communication, public speaking
- 👥💞Influence
- 🫂🤝Negotiation
- 🎯Smart goal setting
- ⌚Time management & prioritisation
- 🏁Problem solving & critical thinking
- 🗂️Project management, system and framework thinking
- 💵Financial literacy
- 💻Digital literacy
Seeking out my first job in the essential service industries:
- 🌁Architecture and infrastructure
- 🚈🌲Land, transportation & network
- 🌅Environmental protection and conservation
- 🚰Water
- 🔌Electrical
- 🛜Internet and wifi tech
- ♻️Sustainability
- 🥗Food & agriculture
- 🚰Water filtration, reverse osmosis, desalination
- 🗑️Sanitation
- 👩🏽🏫Education & research
- 💉Health and medicine
- 💵Finance
- 🖨️IT, machines and automation
- 🛡️Security
- 🚨🚑Disaster contingencies and preparation
To climb up the corporate ladder:
- Leadership theories and principles
- Coaching and mentoring
- Business
- Finance / Accounting
- Economics
- History / Geopolitics / (Multi-)Cultural Studies
- Law
Take all the above with a pinch of salt, because I'm just throwing ideas out there for the youths (who feel lost and aimless) to explore.
