Tough life choices..

Think now you have just completed your tertiary education and you are pondering on what niche you wish to pursue. What will you really pick? Remember this is a choice that affects you for life! If you are in the mass communications or biomedical field, you have a very precise aim on where you want to sprint to.

I think those tougher ones are the IT and business students as they are simply so wide to them. Should I go Java programming? Should I go for system analysis or software engineering? How about public administration or HR? I think marketing is a glamour choice too!

This life choices happen everyday after the graduation and as a parent, I forsee myself advising my daughter in another four or five years. This also happens in the working world, especially if one is thinking of a career change.

So it's time to make your options again. You are stuck with that hard decisions in life. Your dad wants you to go for chemical engineering yet you wish to pursue bioscience. You just don't know. Both seem good.

So what do you do when it comes to the time for you to make choices in life? What are the factors that help you decide? There are 4 factors according to Maria Duval:

Get As Much Information As You Can

If you are recital this, you are in the information age. Up to this peninsula of the century, we have reached a moment where people austerely cannot live lacking information. There are not information everywhere, especially with the technology of the Internet, it even makes your search much easier. It gives you the rule access of the information you want.

Not only that, you can ask around your friends and family who are available through, or have left through the same state like yours. For example, if you want a marketing job in the construction visitors, you might want to do examining on the Internet or ask people around who have been in the construction grassland for a long time. It may not get you the demand information you want but you will be able to get a lot of information from them.

Identify and Create Options

Are there any options you can associate? If your marketing job in a construction business does not work out, do you have any other options?

Getting a marketing attitude in a construction band may appear to be your model job and what about having a marketing standing in a water pump group? How about in a kitchen cabinet circle? Jewelry export? The record goes on.

If you have produced these options, it will be easier when it comes to make choices in life.

Weigh 'Pros' and 'Cons'

If I make the option of charming a marketing job in the earrings export band, what are the pros and cons?

The pros may be having the opportunity to voyage overseas like U.A.E and South East Asia countries, being promoted nearer and meeting a lot more people from different backgrounds.

Your only con would be sacrificing a lot of time with your family because you should to consume a lot of time traveling overseas.

Trust Yourself and Make A Decision

Great leaders do not worry of making choices or decisions. They expect themselves and make a very firm choice. Even it does not excursion out to be a right surety at the end, they will take it as a view instead of a letdown.


Life is about making choices. You can seek all the advice you want, create all the options available, and identify all the pros and cons but the final decision has to come back from you.

So what if you don't make a good decision this time. The next time you make decision, you can be sure that you will be wiser when it comes to making choices and decisions.