Video: In Conclusion from “It’s Your Career, After All” with Douglas E. Welch

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Everything about your job search is external — resumes and interview skills and dress and all the other stuff. That’s fine. That’s required. Really those things are kind of “yeah, I know. I know what I need to do there and I’ve got pretty much a handle on what I need to do. Most of us, I think, in this room, have a handle on that. look to the internal factors — look at your wants, your needs and your desires. Don’t let one outweigh the other. Focus on your desires, if nothing else. Your desires are telling you something about yourself that maybe even you haven’t listened to in the past. Listen to those little voices in the back of your head — little prickles in your heart that when you know you do something really, really, enjoyable — those are pointing you in the right direction — if you listen to them. And that, at least gives you somewhere on your compass — “I want to go that way! How can I go that way?” It gives you a direction. If you get to know yourself better, you can’t help but be a better worker, a better job candidate, a better employee, a better “whatever you do.” The more self-knowledge you have the better you will be at doing whatever you do, because you just understand yourself more. You understand your limitations. I have limitations. I tend to worry way to much. It’s just part of my makeup and I have to things to adjust to that. The fact is, though, because I know that about myself, i can work against it. I can modify it. I can bring it back into balance whenever I can. You can’t help but being better if you learn more about yourself. It can be a little scary. There are some things about all of us that we don’t like about ourselves. My worry is one of the things that I so glad my son did not inherit from me and I tell him that regularly. He is much more chill than I am, which is great, but it can’t help make me better at what I do by knowing it. It’s in our ignorance that we lose ourselves. When we start to do what everyone else wants, not what we want.

Don’t allow others to trap you in a bad situation through coercion, being demeaning, — funny you brought up what you said again about the demeaning behavior — or being dismissive. Those are the 3 common traits that people will try to do to you. Don’t. Recognize them for what they are. Recognize them as what they’re feeling, not what you should be feeling. (inaudible) Demeaning, Dismissive and — oh, — through coercion, demeaning behavior or dismissive behavior — that’s the way I wrote it here. Most importantly, let me reinforce this in the conclusion — do not be the creator of your own traps. We all do it. We all do it! Been there. Right there beside you. Don’t do it to yourself. There are enough challenges in this world without creating more of your own. Do not do it to yourself.

Define, Control and Create the Career yourself and others need and desire. The fact is, if you are fulfilled in your career, people around you will feel fulfilled as well. You wil percolate good feelings out there, because you will be in the position where you can help others. You will be in a position to provide a good example, which sometimes in this world, the only thing we can offer is a good example. People don’t think about that, but just because everyone else is doing something bad doesn’t mean you have to. Be the good example and other people will follow it. Trapping yourself — doing any of these demeaning, dismissive, coercive things is NOT the way to build the career you deserve and that’s what it’s all about. We are not entitled to a great career — entitlement doesn’t figure into this, but we all deserve it. Because deserving it as part of our native, human rights and nature — we deserve a good career and we shouldn’t let ourselves — which often happens — too often — or someone else stops us from doing that. Or at least striving towards the best we can get. Does tat make sense to everybody? So we’re all going to go out there and fight the good fight, right?

I want to thank you all so much for listening to me today. I hope that this has been useful for you. As you mentioned, yes, you can find everything that I do on http://DouglasEWelch.com. You’ll find links to all 5 of the blogs on the left hand side — the books I’ve written. The videos — the most recent videos are on the page. You can also check out my YouTube Channel. There’s a link to that as well. Where you can find out — I try to record everything I do, so a lot of the stuff is there and the weekly column is also a podcast, so you can listen to it on audio or you can read it, if you want.

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