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How to find my passion and interest?

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Kim’s Answer

Hi William

You have been given some excellent advice already. My only additional thought to consider is to gain insight into your true strengths and how they are aligned to certain areas of interest. My favorite assessment is StrengthsFinder. The resulting report will provide insights into your natural strengths and what opportunities may be a good fit. Best wishes to you.

Kim recommends the following next steps:

Research the StrengthsFinder assessment to determine the value to your quest.
Take the assessment and review the resulting report.
Retain the report for reference as your career progresses.
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Simeon’s Answer

If you are looking to find what your passions are to find job ideas, the starting point I usually recommend is researching what the fastest growing fields are. That will give you a starting point if you're drawing a blank about what you'd like to do. I'd also recommend looking at YouTube videos where employees discuss their favorite and least favorite parts of their jobs. One of the downsides to a lot of career decision materials is that they don't usually tell you the downsides of different careers, so it might help you narrow down the options you're considering.

If you wan to look at your passions more directly, I'd say to think of what you do when you stress or can't really focus on thinking anymore. What do you look forward to doing or daydream about when you have idle time? Generally speaking, the direction you go in when you are seeking rest and relaxation will give you some clues as to what you value.
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Leahanne’s Answer

Pay attention to what activities give you energy. Track your activities through the day and rate whether they are energy generating or energy depleting. Do more of what generates energy in you. Look at a list of industries. Identify those that you would like to improve, disrupt, change or be willing to work for for free. Rhose are the areas you really care about. Do what generates energy qith what industries you care about

Test it out through part time work, volunteer work or internships. Good luck and have fun!
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Karen’s Answer

Ask yourself -- "what do I enjoy doing and what would I like to be remembered for?" If you enjoy sports, you might spend time talking to a coach. Or look into volunteer opportunities where you can serve those who are less fortunate if that makes you feel good.


Sometimes it takes years to discover your true passion but meanwhile you are learning what's important in your life and gaining some great experience.


Start with identifying one thing that you could feel passionate about. It could be as simple as being positive no matter where you are. Bringing positivity to the world would be a great contribution!


With every good wish!
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Zoriana’s Answer

Sometimes it takes years to define your true interests and find a passion! I would encourage you never give up on that journey and always try new thing and go outside your comfort zone.
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Brittany’s Answer

Hello William, It seems like you are on the right track for as the advice that has already been given to you from Kim and Leahanne. I would just like to add a few things to what they have given to you for as advice. when finding passion and interest there are a few things that you can look into to better access this part of your life. I will start off personally with how I found out my passion:

For many years while In high-school in into my undergrad, I thought that I wanted to pursue a career in becoming a writer, a magazine editor or even a public relations specialist. While I thought this was something I wanted to do, I never realized that I lacked the drive to become these things. As my college career progressed, I started to see that all these things I thought I wanted to become no longer interested me.

When I looked up certain job descriptions and responsibilities tailored to these jobs, I realized that the responsibilities were boring and I couldn't envision myself doing the required work from 9-5 every day. So how did I find my passion ? My friend actually helped me go into my passion that I never thought I had, It was the drive and energy to push people into becoming their best authentic selves they could be. I helped my friend and other peers all the time with the classes they should take to pursue their degree, I also helped them figure out the career they wanted to go into by analyzing what they do best and what comes naturally to them. However, I never analyzed myself and what came naturally to me. I had to first assess what didn't feel like work to me, I had to figure out what I liked doing all the time. What I like doing all the time was helping people reaching their personal goals and finding their untapped potential. My passion was then clear. I wanted to become an Advisor, no matter the type. I wanted to give advice to people so they wouldn't end up struggling and making mistakes like I did. I wanted to help them avoid trouble at all costs.

This is the advice that I would give to you, figure out your passion and interests so that you can find a job you love and that doesn't feel like a job to you.

  1. What do you do in your daily life that you absolutely enjoy doing ?
  2. Can you connect what you love doing in your daily life into becoming a career ?

These are just some general questions that you can start asking your self. Also, I will give you some steps into better achieving your answer.

Brittany recommends the following next steps:

Find out what you like to do by assessing what naturally comes to you, that doesn't feel like a tedious task.
Take a Career Assessment test into figuring out what you love to do based off of your abilities of what you already do. This is a link to a personality and career assessment test that might help you find what you like to do. https://center.humanesources.com/ Types of test like this one are pretty accurate and come close to finding out what you want to do based off of general personality and what you already do and are aware of.
Register with the Access Key: J9MGNH8
After entering the Access key it will take you to create an account. Once you have created an account you will then be prompted to your profile page. On the profile page, go to the home tab and locate the to do list. Click on the start Achieve Works Skill Assessment. It will take only 15 minutes to complete. Once you finish the assessment you will be given career choices that math up to your personality and jobs that are a good fit for, based off what you are passionate about.
Ask your friends or those close to you what you seem passionate about. This may sound odd to ask others what you like to do but If they are really close and you normally interact with them on a daily, they could give you some general insight on what you love to do that you might not have thought about(This is what happened to me. One of my close friends lead me to my passion). Sometimes we can't see what we love or what generally comes naturally ourselves, sometimes we need someone who can see the light in us that we can't often times see.
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