WHAT NEXT!!

What next?

A good schooling, an average college, a decent post graduation college, and an amazing organisation.....and what next?

Ever since, we understand the meaning of the term-"Independence", the quest begins...right from school days, plenty of career counseling sessions, questions to know the why’s and how’s of courses, and career paths, pros and cons of getting into each of them...but the obvious answer- "WE SHOULD CHOOSE A CAREER PATH THAT INTERESTS US"....

I still remember attending that one work-shop on career counseling in school and that was it...It was more of an informatory session for me... In high school, it was difficult to even understand what kind of career would have interested me...Infact, choosing one out of the three--Commerce, Arts or Science was the still easy...and it has been a spontaneous career planning since then....and without any regrets.

Shifting from Science to Commerce by calling my teacher at 9 pm, or taking up the CFA course, or getting a form for CAT/XAT was as spontaneous...

Completing a post graduation course and finally landing up to this work-life. Most decisions in life are driven less by choices but more by circumstances, and lack of alternatives. The only choice one makes is just during those career counselling sessions.... :P (But, with limited knowledge....like an inky pinky ponky, father has a donkey.... kind of a thing)

Ofcourse, the only thing and the most important choice, is to decide what one wants out of life...what is it that would last..What is it that is a true motivator….what is it that would not wear out…and it goes on….And the career counseling courses should exactly be focussed in pondering over these questions.

After completing post-graduation, it was all inquisitiveness to get into work-life and become independent like staying in a new city, away from home, and earning sufficient to sustain (As a friends says even after being into his own business for almost 3-4 years..."teen time dal-roti mil jata hain”: P)

All this feeling of independence lasts just for a couple of months...and then, one wonders...What next?

Had always heard that money is never a motivator and I too realised that by now... (As said by Bill gates- "Money is never a motivator in life, Say this only when you have earned enough). Nor because, I have earned enough, but because, I actually believe that there should be something else that would keep one going....and so, every morning I ask myself this question-“What next?” and I am still pondering for an answer.

What I can understand till now is-

"What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness", and one has to find a medium for it.