English Graduate - need life direction. I am paralysed with options or lack of.

[Mr.Fantastic]

I graduated from uni about six months ago, got my degree (2,1) and now I need a career direction. Problem is I am totally paralysed with fear about making the wrong decisions, this leads me to reject the ideas of working for big companies, etc. I have NO IDEA what i want to do with my life. NO IDEA. Anybody else been in this position. I am now feeling like i need to get some kind of job ANY job, but i want to be happy in my life, i don;t just wanna work for the money, but at the same time i need to make money.

Anybody else in this position? been in this position? How did you sort yourself out?
Thanks

 

[Dr.Acula]

Read this 6 part article. It`s a little bit long but it should help you sort things out.

 

[comic_relief]

Read the free e-book copy of "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill. It should help you immensly.

comic_relief

 

[Mr.Fantastic]

thanks guys, im checking both suggestions out..

 

[Deep Dish]

I graduated from uni about six months ago, got my degree (2,1) and now I need a career direction. Problem is I am totally paralysed with fear about making the wrong decisions, this leads me to reject the ideas of working for big companies, etc. I have NO IDEA what i want to do with my life. NO IDEA. Anybody else been in this position. I am now feeling like i need to get some kind of job ANY job, but i want to be happy in my life, i don;t just wanna work for the money, but at the same time i need to make money.

Anybody else in this position? been in this position? How did you sort yourself out?
Thanks

Ah yes, the mid-twenties identity crisis most college graduate go through. It took me 15 months from graduation to find my first serious job and during those 15 months I went back and forth between similar thoughts. I've been at my job for a year now and have been continually strategizing my next moves to incrementally go where I want. Steve Jobs delivered a brilliant commencement speech about connecting the dots in life.

 

[seanchai]

MOVE. From your terms ("uni", "2,1" which is quite good, congrats) I'm guessing you're British or Irish. If the former, move somewhere in the Commonwealth and do a job! Your degree could probably get you a teaching gig in Tanzania for a year, or you could work at Club Med in the West Indies. Just get out of wherever you are and GO. Think about where you could be in the next three years if you spend a few of them changing your life completely... you probably can't, which is good. Just GO!

Tyler at RSD wrote a really fantastic article at his blog yesterday that sort of ties into that theme. realsocialdynamics.blogspot.com

 

[comic_relief]

the commencement speech was amazing.

comic_relief

 

[John_Galt]

I like to quote Don Cherry's father for a minute. He wrote a poem that had this in it,

"Success is failure, turned inside out."

Failure is the best thing that will ever happen to you. You're more experienced, smarts, and better direction. Don't look at failure as a bad thing. Look at it as it's the experiences that will make you great.

After I graduated I had an internal crisis, and took my life away from working for someone, to people working for me. My life, my terms, my time.

 

[Mr.Fantastic]

thanks for the suggestions guys, im reading the stuff and some of it is very inspirational. I think what I am going through is known as the 'quarter life crisis', anybody else heard this term?