When we think about career, what usually
comes to mind is defining our professional trajectory, related to the
profession that we want to follow through life. However, career is not a term that
is used only in the corporate environment, but also in personal life when we
think about decisions and projects that can change our daily lives.
When
still young, we think most of the time to achieve our financial independence,
and for this reason we start to work long hours with the desire to leverage
money and success, thus leaving our health and personal life in the background.
For this reason, there is little time for oneself, family, friends and leisure,
and time (badly administered) gets increasingly scarce.
With the mind
and body focused on work, it becomes difficult to think about activities and
projects that give us pleasure. For this reason, it is necessary to stop from
time to time to review our attitudes, and redefine new projects and activities
that we can improve in.
Different
from the professional career that takes into account our productivity and gain
for the company, personal career concerns are with our achievements as a human
being, including our way of being and living in the world, our dreams, purposes
and beliefs of life.
Living
for work, giving up dreams, aspirations and personal goals, is to deny the
right to know yourself, your skills, talents and abilities, leading the
individual to abdicate their most intimate aspirations.
Not
developing within your personal career
may impede the acquisition of self-knowledge and discernment in our choices,
whether current or future, because it is not possible choose which profession
to follow, if you do not know where to go. Moreover, the lack of focus may end
inhibiting our personal aspirations such as: interest in playing an instrument
or doing a course.
Carelessness
with our own health and the things that give us pleasure, may lead the
individual to discouragement and dissatisfaction with work, home, family and
studies. It is important to have balance between personal life and professional
life. If the mind is sick and tired, this will contribute a weary body.
The
construction of a life project that unites both personal and professional
aspects of the individual is necessary in building your career as it will
indicate objectives, goals, beliefs, values, qualities, skills, knowledge and
experience, and point to the professional strong points and areas that can improve.
Our
career can be affected by four factors:
Biological
factor: relative to our health and fitness. Younger people, armed with energy
and vitality, generally do not violate the limits of the body itself, nor set
limits on working hours, and are predisposed to work uninterrupted without food
or rest. Thus, these individuals who put the job in the foreground, eventually
becoming vulnerable to occupational diseases and stress.
Intellectual
factor: this refers to the baggage of knowledge we have, that allows us to
develop our work with efficiency and competence. We should not rely solely on
our work to develop our intellectual capacities, because unfortunately many
companies charge their employees, without thinking about your physical and
mental wellbeing. Thus, it is up to the employee to seek further training and
development, regardless if your employer requests it.
Social and
affective factor: This is often sacrificed in the name of our profession.
Because we live in a busy world, full of changes, amid the need to excel in the
labor market, we should value the work on our emotional health as well as our
relations . In a situation like this, you need to stop, breathe and look inside
you in an attempt to see what we put aside, and what can still be rescued.
Financial
factor: is the factor that usually attracts most people to get a placement in
the labor market. However, there are two types of recognition: the emotional
and financial. The affective recognition is linked to our satisfaction in the
activity that I exercise, for example: if my job is in line with my goals,
beliefs and values, it gives me a sense of belonging, making a difference where
I work. Financial recognition concerns a cash reward for my services, money to
the livelihood of the house and payment of bills.
Thus,
we can see that all the factors that compose the construction and development
of our career (biological, intellectual, social and emotional) are important,
and no factor overrides the other, all are interdependent and essential for
life at work and outside it.
Daniela Silva is married, Brazilian, and currently resides
in Sao Paulo, where she works in her home office with research and projects in
education and the third sector.
Graduated in Pedagogy, she has qualifications in: Pedagogy and school
management business. And an MBA in
Managing People.
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