Determine Your Dream Job:

As you search for your dream job, you must determine what kind of work will make you happy and meet your needs. This can be broken down into three steps:

• Determine the things you like to do
• Find ways to make money doing these things
• Assess the qualities, skills and tools you have to do these jobs

Here’s a helpful exercise to help you determine your dream job: list 10 things that you love to do. Now, for each of those, list three ways you could make money doing those things. You now have 30 ways to make money doing what you love to do. That’s not a bad starting point! Use this as a launching pad to finding your dream job, and don't get bogged down yet in the practicality of what you just wrote down. This is brainstorming time!

Getting Started:

Do you wake up in the morning full of excitement and enthusiasm about your day? Or do you dread going to work? If your job is sapping the life out of you, then it is time to reassess your life and your work. If you feel like an old dream is stirring and just won’t go away, then it is time to discover and pursue your calling. The following questions provide thoughts for reflection as you take the first steps in responding to your calling:

• What keeps you in your current job, even though you are unhappy?
• What skills and talents are unused?
• What dreams have you buried because they weren’t “practical?”
• What would a “dream job” look like to you?
• What are you willing to sacrifice in order to have a dream job?