As a 23-year old it’s quite a bummer to realise you have no single clue of want you want to do for a living the rest of your life (-I must admit, as a born-and-bread Millenial ‘the rest of my life’ probably refers more to ‘the upcoming 5 years’ rather than a real lifetime commitment. But as 5 years account for more than 1/5 of my current time spent breading, I hope you can understand the dramatic tone). I’ve had the chance to participate in multiple personality-, team-, trait-, … tests; and after a thorough screening by several HR- and recruiter-titles, I still haven’t really discovered a lot more than I already assumed to know about myself (that’s one trait btw: I’m a know-it-all on some points), and I also wasn’t really given any direction of what I should do with me being me.
In short : I’m the typical enthusiastic kid that is interested in anything and everyone, is sociable, quick-thinker and creative. Downside : I have the hardest time focusing on actually working out ideas, let stand be concerned with details.
All of this wouldn’t really matter if my name was Steve Jobs and have a record that boldly says: I’m a visionair, just make it happen. But I’m afraid I was too occupied with stuff that haven’t granted me this status. I’m still taking stupid tests, in the meantime trying to gain as much of experience I can. And to be honest, I’m not really concerned of what direction I’m going to, ‘cause if there’s one thing I know about myself is that I can’t even take direction from my GPS without questioning the damn thing.
I often start a project and be motivated as hell to launch something new… But the moment the idea/ solution is designed I can’t work it out as I’m already thinking about something new.
Are there jobs for this ? I don’t mind working my way up there or down here, but I don’t know where I could be of value bringing in good ideas yet lacking the skills of actually implementing them. Would love to know how others have overcome a similar 'issue', all insights welcome!
(And I know, I have (and I try) to learn to do those tasks, and I’ll never have what I want on a silver platter. But if you would be so kind to ignore this millennial-stigma and give some insightful advice/critique, that would be much appreciated!)