What to take into account before getting a job

Before starting to get a job, ask yourself a few questions. First, why are you doing this. It would seem that the question is stupid and inappropriate, and the answer is obvious - for earnings. However, it is possible to receive money for time and effort in various ways, but some of them give an opportunity to develop, while others are only aimed at meeting minimum needs. For example, you can try to get a job for a long time "on a diploma" - by specialty, say, a musicologist or a specialist in ancient languages. But even in a large city, the need for them is negligible, and the salary of a budgetary scientific employee of a university will not be able to feed the family. That's what narrow specialists (especially humanitarians) have to re-qualify for or become employed by sales consultants, janitors, couriers. Such forced employment will provide minimal means of subsistence, but will not bring moral satisfaction. Nevertheless, to stay afloat, especially in a crisis, it is simply necessary. And this does not mean that you will have to abandon your ambitions forever and from your favorite business: you can devote all your free time, for example, write articles about music for websites, publish your translations from Latin or Ancient Greek. That is, you can always find an outlet if you want.

The second question, which should be answered by yourself before getting a job, is life priorities. Nobody can decide anything for you, and you do not need to listen to relatives and friends, but only your inner voice. For example, with the same amount of salary you found a vacancy for a sales manager in different parts of the city. In one place is a welcoming team, a benevolent boss, but you will have to transfer to work with transplants, as a result, you will spend 3-4 hours only on the road per day. If you are not involved in anything, at home or in the kindergarten little children are waiting, or there are grandparents who will take care of them, you can make a choice in favor of this company. But if a similar job is offered across the road or in two stops from you, although with a more strict boss, perhaps you will prefer this vacancy. In this case, you can devote more time to the family, will not depend on public transport, and the office can be reached on foot. The choice of where to get a job, just for you.

Since for most of us, labor for money is not only a necessary part of life, but it takes almost all (at least not less than half) waking time, which it would be a pity to spend without prospects, one more question should be answered. If the financial situation satisfies you in general, the next important milestone is the moral and psychological side. There are many places where you can get a job for the sake of earnings. You can even go abroad and work there. However, if your chosen profession is exactly what you want to do in the future, there will certainly be a question of career growth or the opening of your business. After all, a person can be happy only when his psychological needs are satisfied: in recognition, self-realization, comprehension of the new. Therefore, if you are looking for a place to work without work experience, but at the same time want to develop your skills in a particular case, try to find a suitable internship in your specialty. Let it not bring much income at the beginning of the journey, but it will allow you to enter the profession, feel yourself in it, try your hand at it. Seasonal or low-skilled work was and is always, but not with it it is necessary to begin the career.