Monday 17 September 2018

Decoding the meaning of career advice and happiness advice!




Ever heard of this question? Or does it sound like you’ve had enough of it already?

Right from a random schmuck on the street to your retired relative, everyone seems to be interested in your career decisions; right? 

Every tom, dick and, harry seems to feel responsible for your actions. 

If you’re sailing in the same boat, worry not. I’ve been there too. But yeah, I also found a solution to stay away from such bits of advice. 

However, before heading to the solution. I would like to ask you the difference between a career advice and an happiness advice. 

Both might look similar. What if you give a deep scrutiny? Just try it out. It’s gonna blow up your minds as both are quite different. They don’t attract each other. 

Career advice might perhaps be the best bets for the well-paid counsellors. But in reality, most of the times, they are crap. 

Yes. You read that right. In fact, the counsellors have a greater job satisfaction than the folks who are shooting them questions. 

Think about it. What’s the basic description of Career Advice? 

Or, to explain in the millennial tone, how does an objective of a ‘career advice’ look? 

Maybe, something like this - 

‘Hey. I’m career advice and my only objective is to make people slog so hard that they screw up their health. I also make sure that no one gets time to lead a comfortable personal life’.

Did I say personal? So, this was the solution thing I was talking about. 

Ever stumbled upon a counsellor in a magazine who would preach about living your passion or what you precisely term it as a Happiness Advice. 

No. They don’t bank on such topics. Why may you ask? Because they never had a passion. Period. 

So, people went mad and curious to find out folks who could fetch them some happiness advice. 

Boom! Entered the entrepreneurs-turned authors. The numbers rose and things began to change. 

While counsellors in the magazine spoke about the next software update, the passion-driven ninjas spoke about ideas that could turn toilet papers into gold. 

AND, it began to work. What looked boring in the past became an interesting task in the present. 

So, that’s the difference between an happiness advice and, a career advice. 

Unlike the latter, happiness lectures are exciting and, most importantly, if implemented well, you’ll end up happy forever. 

Just look at some famous people. Right from technology, sports, entertainment and to arts. Most of them are happy and successful only because they could dedicate everything to their passion. 

After all, many are privileged to enjoy the riches; but only a few end up having a Wikipedia page. 

So, it’s all about living and hustling for that one goal you’re looking forward to accomplish. 

Written by Vishal Aryan Komara 


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