How to Choose a Career: A Proven Method for Finding a Job You Will Love

By Patrick Grattan

A recent study has shown that 60 percent of workers say they are unhappy with their job and would like to pick a different career. Unfortunately, picking an engaging career that makes the greatest use of our talents is a difficult thing to do. Even worse, much of the conventional wisdom we hear on this subject is flawed and should not be followed at all!
Inside this book you will:

-Understand the dangers of following much of the mainstream advice on picking a career:
-Top five bad pieces of advice you should ignore
-Learn how to match your abilities to multiple career paths:
-Discover your hidden talents
-Recognize your passions
-Identify the skills you have that employers are hungry for
-Explore new career options
-Learn how to easily narrow your choices by balancing pay with career paths you can be excited about:
-The secret formula for a successful career
-How to match your talents with great pay
-Combine occupations to find amazing jobs
-Evaluate prospective industries to forecast job security

Don’t waste time, effort, and money using bad advice only to find yourself in a boring, tiresome job. Instead, follow this easy, proven method so you can focus your efforts and find a job you will LOVE!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Patrick Grattan
• Release date: Feb 10, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224663231

Patrick Grattan

In 2008, Patrick Grattan was an individual investor who subscribed to the buy-and-hold mentality. When the markets crashed that year, he felt a wake-up call, recognizing that investors are merely passengers at the mercy of shadowy market forces. Immediately, Mr. Grattan realized that there was no guarantee that markets should always recover or that buy-and-hold will always be advantageous in the long run. With such future uncertainty, he discovered that the only way to mitigate such risks was by actively managing his investments. Mr. Grattan's principal goal was to design a strategy that would earn consistent profits without the roller-coaster returns of buy-and-hold. The result of his labor was a profitable trading strategy that minimized risk while using the leveraging power of compounding to provide fantastic returns despite market conditions. In 2010, Revere Trading was born, a premier market-timing subscription service that allows others to profit from Mr. Grattan's unique and invaluable strategies. Due to an overwhelming interest by people wishing to design their own personalized strategy like the Revere Trading system, Mr. Grattan authored the book "Developing Profitable Trading Strategies: A Beginner's Guide to Backtesting using Microsoft Excel" in 2013. It serves as a resource that shows others the lessons and pitfalls he encountered while developing and proving his personally-designed technical trading strategies.

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How to Choose a Career:

A Proven Method for Finding a Job You Will Love

By Patrick Grattan

All Rights Reserved © 2012 Patrick Grattan

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 - What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

Five Popular Pieces of Bad Advice You Need to Ignore

Chapter 2 - What Are Your Talents?

Five Unique Approaches to Uncover Your Hidden Talents

Chapter 3 - What Do You Enjoy?

Five Ways to Determine Your Passion

Chapter 4 – What Are Your Career Options?

Five Perspectives for Exploring New Careers

Chapter 5 – What Jobs Does Society Need?

The Secret Relationship Between Money and Happiness

Chapter 6 – How Does This All Come Together?

A Simple Yet Powerful Tool You Can Use for a Lifetime

Chapter 7 - What Other Factors Should I Consider?

Critical Final Considerations for Picking a Winning Industry

Chapter 8 - What if I Still Can’t Decide Which Career is Right for Me?

A Dependable Solution for the Undecided

Conclusion

About the Author

Freebie for My Readers

Preface

Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, that's good! One less thing. -Forrest Gump

If you are nearing high school graduation or thinking about a mid-career change, I hope you can appreciate the awesome decision you have before you: What profession do I want to enter into? Now, I don’t mean awesome as in cool (though you may be excited at the possibilities), but rather I mean overwhelming! Do you realize there are billions of types of jobs in the world? How many have you considered so far? I’m guessing just a fraction, if any at all.

Even if you are coming into this book with a few careers in mind that you think would be good for you, in the first few chapters I’m going to urge you to be creative and open your mind to exploring more possibilities. Please don’t limit yourself to preconceived notions about which career you should pursue. I want you to generate a list a mile long of career options including some you may not even currently be aware of. It is important to expand your mind like this so that you don’t overlook what may be your best career fit.

Once you have an awesome list to choose from, how do you decide among the options? Some people go with their gut and decide emotionally. Others expect a quiz or guidance counselor to pick for them. Still others just go wherever the wind blows them. All these methods are like spinning a wheel and hoping for a satisfying outcome. Don’t you dare do it! There is too much time, money, and happiness at stake to just leave your odds of a successful and fulfilling career to chance. Instead, in the last half of this book, I will show you a more analytical approach that you can use to narrow down your list into just a couple of professions that you can actively pursue. Even if you are a completely creative person that has never passed a math test in your life, it will be easy because I’m going to walk you step by step through the process to show you how to match your talents with a great career.

No person, book, or quiz alone can tell you what career you should take up; only you can decide, but that doesn’t mean you have to go through the decision process alone. This book is going to take you step by step through a proven process that will creatively expand your mind followed by logically narrowing those options down into an ultimate career choice. That doesn’t mean that the process will be quick, as it will require some thought and reflection; but, if you follow along, the process in this book is going to