The document provides guidance on choosing a career by considering what you love, your talents, and how to generate income. It advises to pick a career that matches your skills and interests, is challenging but provides a work-life balance, and allows you to earn enough money. The ideal career is one you love that utilizes your talents and generates revenue. It cautions against choosing jobs solely for short-term gains or those that require unethical behavior and encourages being willing to change careers if needed.

1. How to choose your
career right ?
By
Nalaka Gamage
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2. Why do you need a career?
• Earn for needs
• Serve the society
• Follow your passion
• Unleash your potential
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3. Important points
• A long-term (life-time) choice
• Your main income generator
• Where you spend your time most
• Most careers need upfront investing
of time, money & effort to acquire
required knowledge & skills
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4. Life is a choice, which path
do you prefer?
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5. Pick your choice - I
• (A) I want to solve problems
o I need self satisfaction by genuinely serve others
o Willing to work hard
• (B) I want to exploit others problems
for my benefit
o Show off simple things as big tasks
o Exploit through deliberate delaying
o Willing to lie and cheat others
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6. Pick your choice - II
• (A) I am conscious of ethics
o I take only genuinely offered compensation/salary &
benefits
o I proceed genuine path of career advancement
o I value open and competitive culture
• (B) I value no ethics
o Can shamelessly lie others
o I can steal, bribe & involve corruption
o I do not mind adapt to closed, feudal system for my
personal success
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7. Pick your choice - III
• (A) I believe in my own genuine
capabilities and genuine paths
o Willing to study and acquire genuine skills
o Excel in exams and show my colors
o Willing to face interviews and win jobs
• (B) I want shortcuts
o Willing to lick balls of superiors to get their support
o Willing to wash dirty linen of politicians who provide
me job under hand (If you live in feudal under
developed society)
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8. Which category are you?
• Now rest of the content is for those
who selected (A) as your choice in all
three choices.
• Others may consult alternative
resources for their success
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9. How to select your career?
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What you
love to do
What
utilize
your
talent
What
generate
revenue
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The ideal
career

11. "Choose a job you love, and you
will never have to work a day in
your life."
- Confucius
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Love
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12. Make sure that the career you
choose matching with your skills
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Talent
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13. Make sure that your career
generate enough revenue for
your life
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Money
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14. Features of a good career
• Earn enough for you
• Interesting & challenging
• You do not have to do evil
• Not boring repetitive work
• Your value grow with experience
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15. Features of a good career (con.)
• You have a work-life balance
• You need not locked into one
organization to be successful
• You can go anywhere in the world
and practice your profession
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16. What do the winners do?
• Think long term
• Take own decisions
• Pick open & competitive careers as much
as possible
• Look for genuine income
• Look for jobs that you can serve others
resulting high job satisfaction
• Look for jobs that are interesting and
challenging
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17. What do the losers do ?
• Think only short term
• Blindly pick what others do
• Select merely what your parents ask you to do
• look for jobs where you shamelessly earn by
bribes and corruption
• Look for jobs that give you only earning and
nothing else
• Look for jobs where you have hardly anything to
do
o No room for serve, not interesting or challenging
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18. The final word..
• There are no perfect careers, just you
need to pick the best possible.
• If you make a wrong choice, be brave
enough to change it in a controlled
manner (rather than suffering rest of
your life)
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19. Thank You !
Presented by
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20. "We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act,
but a habit."
~ Aristotle.
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21. You may also interested in
“How to be a real professional”
http://www.slideshare.net/auroracslk/how-to-
be-a-real-professional
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22. Contact Information
Premier Study Center
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Summerset College,
# 135, 3rd Floor,
DFCC Building,
High Level Road,
Maharagama.
0115 690 290
City Study Center
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# 88/2, 2nd Floor,
BOC Building,
High Level Road,
Kirulapone, Colombo 06
0703 001 010
For further details and enquiries :
Call - 0719 842030
E-mail – info@auroracs.lk
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