Are you really sure you will love getting up every day of the week to go to work to do this? How about a lifetime?

I once heard a friend say: “If you're considering a job as a mechanic, don't ask yourself whether you like cars. Ask yourself whether you like lying on your back undoing bolts.” My first reaction to this was that he was being unfair to mechanics, who do skilled and often complex work, but upon reflection I realized the point was right on target. As a mechanic you don’t race cars all day, or simply get to discuss your favorites. You work on and repair cars that are broken. It's a technical, difficult and even dirty job, which requires mastery of all the components that make a car function, and one that leaves little time for just playing with the cars. Considering the sparse amount of time most people actually spend choosing careers (read: not much) these unhappy outcomes are almost predictable.

The reality of working in a certain career or job is not always what we thought it would be. Even if this seems obvious to you, it is amazing how often people select careers they really know little about, only to find themselves unhappy with their choice. It is easy to select a career that looks great either by its trappings or perceived status, and make a decision on these factors alone. When decisions are made in this manner, you have effectively ignored what it is you will actually be doing on a daily basis for a lifetime! No surprise so many people are dissatisfied with their lives, and live for vacations and weekends.

Paul Graham is the founder of startup incubator Y Combinator, an organization dedicated to providing small amounts of funding, mentoring, and even workspace to start up companies to help to propel them to success. Mr. Graham is someone who is constantly evaluating aspiring entrepreneurs to see if their passions line up with their work, and only if they do, does he invest in their projects.

"That's what leads people to try to write novels, for example. They like reading novels. They notice that people who write them win Nobel prizes. What could be more wonderful, they think, than to be a novelist? But liking the idea of being a novelist is not enough; you have to like the actual work of novel-writing if you're going to be good at it; you have to like making up elaborate lies." (http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html)

The real trick to happiness is to find a career which leverages your unique skills and abilities, and one in which the day-to-day work is enthralling TO YOU. At OneTRUEzone we are dedicated to helping you find the career, which is right for YOU, and will bring you personal happiness and fulfillment.