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Note: This article according to my December 12, 2015 in the Chinese Hacker Alliance and December 17 in CSDN's public class "Do the work I want to do" collation, and made a lot of adjustments, and lectures on the content of a large discrepancy, and even as a new article to see.

Most of us face a serious fact: After leaving school, we have to work hard for 40-50 years. If in such a long time, in our most energetic most vigorous life, has been doing the work we do not like (this is not uncommon), it is a waste of money, waste of life. Therefore, it is very important to find a job that suits you, and only when you do what you want to do, can you get the job satisfaction you need to accomplish yourself.

"Find your beloved job, then, when the sun is not up, you can't wait to do the job you love." "This is what Steve Jobs said, and the same thing happened to Steve Jobs's life, and he finally changed the world through Apple."

Since it's so important to do what you want to do, how can you do what you want to do?

Here are two questions: how to find the right job for you? How do you verify that your current job is what you want?

In forty or fifty years of this long career, most people will undergo many changes in their careers, and once you face a career choice, you have to face the above two issues.

We first provide four ways to help verify that the current job is what you want.

Is the current job what you want?

Four methods, one for one.

The Sunday degree of depression test

This method comes from the book "First, break all the rules", its author is very ox X, is the United States Marcus Buckingham, he set off sweeping the global "advantage Revolution". He also has two other books, "Now, discover your advantage", "now, play your advantage", are all super bestsellers.

The Sunday Depression test is simple, effective and easy to implement.

The first is to experience their own feelings if Sunday night

1. Without any depression or pain, and looking forward to coming next week.
2. Feeling blue, thinking about going to work in Monday, trying to escape.

Whether you feel like 1 or 2, do it:

1. Ask yourself why?
2. Record answers for your next job search

When you look forward to coming next week, looking forward to work, there must be some clear reasons, such as the relationship between colleagues particularly harmonious, working content particularly like, working environment (material) is particularly good, the leadership is particularly appreciated ... Note that these things are most likely to be an essential ingredient for your job and will be a great reference for future applications.

When you think of the next day to work there is a resistance to the unpleasant, it must be what causes you uncomfortable, and your personality, habits, hobbies and other conflicts, such as office politics is very serious, such as everyone in the muddle every day idle, such as you like to develop the company to let you take the team ... These are reverse indicators, their opposite may be the ideal job you want to work on the point, re-employment can be consulted.

Q12 of Gallup

There is no absolute good job, no job is suitable for everyone, and everyone is satisfied, but there must be a job to satisfy you.

Gallo's Q12 is designed to measure employee engagement and working conditions. Answer these 12 questions and you'll find out if your current job is satisfying.

1. Do I know the requirements for my work?
2. Do I have the materials and equipment I need to do my job?
3. Do I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day at work?
4. Have I been praised for my excellent work in the last seven days?
5. Do I feel that my supervisor or colleague cares about my personal situation?
6. Does the work unit encourage my development?
7. At work, do I feel that my opinions are taken seriously?
8. Does the company's mission goal make me feel that my work is important?
9. Are my colleagues committed to high-quality work?
10. Do I have a best friend in my work unit?
11. In the last six months, did someone talk to me about my progress?
12. Have I had the opportunity to learn and grow in my work in the past year?

The actual Q12 measurements are complex and each problem test point is different and may need to be analyzed separately. And the simplest way is to give each topic 5 points, 5 points represents the most satisfied, 0 is the most dissatisfied. We answer each question and calculate the total score.

Occupational stress test

This test can be used to measure when you feel particularly uncomfortable at work or when the Sunday blues test results are bad.

This measurement is a back test and can be used to measure how uncomfortable you are when you are already feeling uncomfortable. Because stress can certainly lead to physical and psychological reactions, the subject of this test is to examine the physical and psychological responses.

Note that the following topics are to be compared against the specific circumstances of the last two weeks to one months:

1. often have dizziness
2. Often have shoulder pain
3. Often feel thirsty
4. Sometimes I feel chest tightness
5. Some signs of numbness in the hands
6. Sometimes shaking hands and feet.
7. Lumbago
8. Diarrhea or constipation alternately
9. Full of weakness and exhaustion
10. The morning is clearer than usual
11. In a low morning mood
12. Feel Bored with learning (work)
13. No patience and perseverance
14. Can't decide on things
15. Uneasy and prone to anger
16. Would rather leave the world
17. Lack of confidence in the future
18. Can't easily meet people.

The interpretation of the results is this:

• 10 and above 10--severe occupational stress disorder, requiring immediate action and psychological treatment
• 5 to 9 o'clock--mild occupational stress disorder, self-treatment, should pay attention to culture.
• Less than 5--no occupational stress disorder, within the normal range.

Test whether the current work is ideal

Finally, provide a simple and effective way to determine whether you have found the ideal job based on your feelings and performance. If you have found the ideal job, you should:

• Look forward to working
• Feel excited and fulfilled by work (most of the time)
• Feel that your pay is respected and appreciated
• Be proud to describe your work to others
• Like and respect your colleagues.
• Confidence in the future

Keep these standards in mind and use them as a reference when you are looking for a job.

How to find the right job?

This is a complicated question, and the three books we mentioned earlier about Marcus Buckingham are very helpful in finding the right job. Marcus Buckingham has always stressed that "discovering your talents and playing your strengths" is the core idea of "knowing yourself". When we know ourselves correctly, and then learn some practical job search strategies, we can find the right career.

There are two theories that know yourself more classic:

• Personality type theory
• Holland Career Interest theory

To get a look.

Character type

It is used to test a person's character type, which is based on Jung's "psychological type", which is developed by a combination of research practice and testing by Catherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs. After more than 70 years of development, has become the world's general character test, is widely used in self-understanding and development, career planning, professional choice, team building management and leadership training, problem solving, interpersonal counseling, education and curriculum development, diversification and multicultural training and many other areas.

About the details of the, simple introduction and application, refer to the Baidu Encyclopedia: http://baike.baidu.com/view/1462757.htm.

The character is divided into 4 dimensions, 8 kinds of preference, 16 types. is the character type table:

Each personality type should have a typical occupation, you can refer to these typical occupations to find their own direction, but the purpose of the job is set in a specific target career, so, the interpretation of the results of a certain degree of professionalism and difficulty, if you do not, you can find professional advice.

A man has three dimensions of me:

• The experience of Me
• The ideal of Me
• The original I

Jung believes that personality preference is innate, the old saying is often said "leopards temperament difficult to move", the test, is this I, is born that I.

Training may lead to preference for cognitive biases, and in the test, you should be in the most relaxed and natural state, to discover the inner, eras preferences. For example, if you feel that you are most relaxed on the beach under the blue sky, imagine yourself in that situation and let yourself relax, for example, if you feel like you are the most relaxed on a rock in a mountain stream, imagine yourself in that situation and let yourself relax.

If the results of the test are inconsistent with your performance in your work and life, and you don't think you are, you can do it several times, or ask a professional for advice.

Holland Career Interest theory

Holland career Interest theory comes from John Holland, Holland that people's personality types, interests and occupations are closely related, interest is a huge driving force of people's activities, any occupation with professional interests can improve people's enthusiasm, and promote people actively and happily engaged in the profession, And there is a high correlation between professional interest and personality. Holland that personality can be divided into realistic (R), Research (I), art (A), Social (S), Enterprise (E) and conventional (C) six types.

A brief description of Holland professional personality types:

Baidu Encyclopedia has two entries can refer to:

• Holland Career Interest theory
• Holland Career Interest test

When personal professional interests do not match the occupation, it is more painful.

The history of the famous carpenter Emperor Zhu from school, Southern Tang Li Yu are typical examples.

November 17, 2014, "China Youth Daily" reported the story of Zhou Hao, he abandoned Peking University, transferred to Beijing Industrial Technician College. It is because of the university's professionalism and his interest is completely mismatched-he has been fond of splitting mechanical assembly of electrical appliances since childhood. If Zhou Hao do Holland professional interest test, it should be r type.

Holland applications are particularly suitable for student groups, and for those who have worked for many years, the conversion costs that need to be considered when adjusting to career interests are high, sometimes difficult to decide, and need to be measured or consulted.

The importance of being prepared

Grandma Moses said, "The thing you are most willing to do is your real gift." Grandma Moses also said, "Life is never too late to start." Doing what you want to do, getting a job in the right job and fulfilling yourself, from now on, is not too late.

However, many people are extremely dissatisfied with their current job, feel that some kind of job may be what they want, and spend a lot of time imagining what they will do after they have fulfilled their dreams, but never think about how they will feel in the process of pursuing their dreams . For example, if your dream is to be a software development engineer, are you ready to have a strong emotional change during the day-from the excitement of using code to a feature, to the frustration of the testers ' bugs, to the mood of the product manager to constantly adjust to the needs? Another example, are you ready to sit in one place for seven or eight hours? And if you can bear the pressure to solve the bug yourself, can you accept that the bug can't solve the state of debugging at night?

Each of our so-called ideal career, there will be some less than the ideal ingredient in the inside, you need to adjust their mentality, accept to do something you do not like the situation, we have to understand that the ideal job, not always let people happy, but, most of the time. What we don't like about Ghana is that we need to get to know it in advance. How to understand, experience? A better approach, that is, "career character interview", simply understand, is to find a predecessor, a detailed understanding of the work of a certain occupation, the situation, the situation in the face of these situations, and then return to see if they can accept.

Another question to consider is: How will you start? Are you going to stick a opposing in the water, or do you want to put your foot in it first? Are you going to do your own old business while you reserve knowledge and skills for your ideal job, or do you want to go for a walk and walk away and cut through the past without leaving your back? This depends in large part on the various factors you face: your knowledge of change, your financial reserves and support, your family and friends, and whether you can throw yourself into a new life.

Anyway, it's important to be ready to take the first step, to think of thousands of roads in the evening, to get up in the morning and usual, and the end result is that you never get the way you want.

Once you're ready, take the first step, and with a start, you're half done, and the job you want will eventually come. Believe that a better future will come. I like the poet's index finger "believe in the Future" this poem, excerpts from a section with everyone:

when the spider's web ruthlessly sealed off my workbases ,
when the ashes of the smoke sigh with the sorrow of poverty ,
I still stubbornly paved the ashes of disappointment ,
write with beautiful snowflakes: Believe in the future .

when my purple grapes turn into the dew of the late autumn ,
when my flowers snuggle in the feelings of others ,
I still cling to the frost of the Withered Vine ,
write down on the desolate Earth: Believe in the future .

I'm going to use my fingers to rush the waves of the sky ,
I will hold the sea of the sun with my hand ,
with the warm, beautiful pen swaying in the dawn ,
write with your child's handwriting: Believe in the future .

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