How to know what industry you like

●Workplace people

Workplace workers are members of a large team and have clear responsibilities and tasks. They need to use their own abilities to help companies/enterprises generate profitable value. There is a saying in the workplace, “Do what you do, love what you do”, because what you like to do often cannot become the career you like to do due to limitations of your own factors, so if you are going to become a workplace worker, from now on It will be more accurate to analyze the following points:

1. Career interests

Note that it is career interests, not your hobbies.

As shown in the picture, this is the Holland Vocational Interest Scale, which was first developed by John Holland, a psychology professor at Johns Hopkins University and a famous American career guidance expert. Holland proposed the vocational interest theory with wide social influence in 1959 and developed a set of test questions.

Holland thus divided into six major types: social type | corporate type | conventional type | practical type | research type | artistic type. Through testing and analysis, it helps you understand your comprehensive type. Determine your own career interests.

If you want to know more about your type, you can enter Xiaowa’s previous answer: How to match career and interests? Check it out and attach the test link here for your reference.

Holland SDS Vocational Interest Test: /holland2/

Holland Vocational Aptitude (Interest) Test (original version by John Holland): /holland/index_online. asp

(The above tests are all from APESK)

2. Workplace ability

"The better you do, the stronger your interest", this sentence is not unheard of It makes sense, because being able to complete good work will bring you a great sense of satisfaction and accomplishment, causing you to slowly "love" it.

As a professional, the strength of your workplace abilities also determines how well you can do it to a certain extent. The following basic abilities are often required in the workplace:

1) Ability to formulate solutions to problems

2) Ability to collect information

3) Ability to write concise documents

4) Ability to adapt quickly and learn

5) Good communication skills

6) Time management skills

7) Self-comfort and repair skills

8) Core professional competencies required by the profession

Although you are in a large workplace, different professions still have different ability requirements, so you should judge whether you have the above basic workplace abilities, and in what aspects you will be more outstanding. Are you? Have the potential to improve their workplace ability deficiencies. These questions can help you clarify what career you can do better, and indirectly also analyze what career you are interested in.

3. Under pressure

China’s big data industry observation portal Dataguan conducted a survey on mental health among more than 2,000 working people. The report "2016 Workplace Psychology" "Health Data Report" shows that 67.4% of people in the workplace believe that they have mental illness, and 61.8% believe that they may be mentally unhealthy.

The following figure is about the distribution of unhealthy symptoms in the workplace.

The pressure in the workplace mainly comes from (1) too much workload, (2) complex interpersonal relationships in the workplace, and (3) difficulty in promotion and salary increase. Fourth, there is the impact of a large number of new people, and fifth, the job requirements are harsh. These stress indicators reflect many factors when you choose a career you like. For example, interpersonal relationships in large companies will be more complex than in small companies; the impact of newcomers to Internet companies will be stronger; and the early-stage salary of technical occupations will be higher than that of non-technical occupations.

If you cannot balance the pressure you bear in this profession, over time, your passion for work, no matter how much you like it, will be worn away.

●Craftsmen

Craftsmen refer to workers who have a relatively independent skill and can complete projects by themselves. Usually they can take over all the processes of a project, such as independent painters, Photographers, designers, etc.

This type of worker can indeed relate what they like to what career they will do in the future, which is in line with what everyone often talks about: "career and interest are just the right match." But in this case, you need to observe the following points to judge whether you really like it.

1. Verify whether you have continuous mobility

The words "like and love" you say verbally are not valid.

When you say you like traveling , ask yourself whether you have been traveling to many countries continuously, or you have explored various in-depth travel routes in a certain city, or you have studied the different tourism cultures in different places.

If you like to do something and want to use it as your future career, you should first determine whether you have the ability to continue to act.

2. Can you afford the upfront cost?

1. When others start to earn wages, the process of learning and improvement of the craftsmen results in making ends meet;

2 .When you first start a project/business, you may also be unable to make ends meet

3. You need to accept the possible low competitiveness in the early stage

3. Can you bear risks

1. Low career stability

2. Losing love after interest turns into repetitive tasks

3. Transition is difficult

4. Continuously Encountering various bottleneck periods

Through the analysis of the above three aspects, craftsmen can determine whether they really like this thing and whether they can develop it as their favorite career in the future.

Through the above two types of analysis, if you are not sure whether you want to be a professional or a craftsman, Xiaowa has two suggestions:

1. Before entering social work , learn more, and experience more different experiences

2. After becoming a professional, develop your craft interests at the same time

So when you decide what career you like in the future, don’t Simply thinking about "what I seem to like" or "what I should like" is a big problem in life, and it requires a combination of rationality, sensibility and external factors to judge.