Career is essential for anyone everyone's life. Whether you are in your Twenties or in teenage, a career decisions is a thing which we need to take major concern over. But when we are in our twenties,choosing career become a crucial decision of life. As this are the best years on making and building a long term career.

1. Take your career seriously
In order to perform excellently in any career, the very first step is to take a career seriously from right now. It will be good if you take a serious career decision from this moment. But it will be great If you have done that many years ago.

2. It’s your career, Don’t copy others choice
It may happen in school or college that, most of the students choose their career decision based on their best friends’ choice. Don't take this serious life decision based on the things like this. Choose your career as per your interest, your mindset, not as per best Friend's.

3. Handle the steering of your career, Don’t let others decide where to go
It is your life, your career, your path. So make the career decision by your own.Parents also need to understand what their children want in their life. Sometimes they forget that their children have their own dreams to fulfill in life,and try to make their children become the one, they wished to be.

4. Perform self-evaluation to find in which career fits for you
Everyone in this world is come up with unique skill sets and capabilities. A task which one can do very efficiently may be difficult for others. Evaluate yourself not only in terms of the educational marks but also in the practical implementations, too.

5. Don’t force yourself to fit in that career Box of others
We all are in the same life game, But at different levels with a different Powers. Don’t force yourself to live others life. Don’t try to prove yourself Right to others. Understand your own weakness and Focus on what you are capable of.

6. When it comes to career, Don’t only focus on the current earning
If you are really dedicated to particular work, then make sure a low pay will not change your mood. It may happen that you get a high paying job, But the work is not gonna improve yourself. That time you need to decide between leaving high paying job. For that, you have to feel confident about yourself first. That are you ready to sacrifice your passion, in exchange of the money.

7. Think about what is the work you want to see yourself doing for the rest of your life
You may gonna end up doing the work that pays you a high amount of money at every month. But also ask a simple question to yourself, Do you really want to see yourself doing this work for an entire life? The answer itself reveals what you require in life. Only focus on that work that you want yourself doing for the rest of your life.

8. Find a Good Leader who has the same career as you about to begin
Your twenties are the time when you have to find that leader to whom you want to follow. There must be a role model in life, when your in young age. A good leader / role model will be the source for inspiration in your 20s. Also a good mentor always examines you in a different situation and guide you for the better one.

9. A misunderstanding between College degree and Skills
Having a Degree and acquiring a skill-set is a different thing. One may be holding a particular Degree, But end up with zero practical knowledge. While on other, there is the one having practical expertise But have no degree to prove that excellence. Simply having a Degree doesn’t describe yourself as an Expert.

10. Does this work gonna improve as a person
A successful career is not only limited to a Good amount of money deposited in the Bank or an excellence work awards to put in the Showcase. A career can be count as successful when it making a Positive change in your life when it makes you a better person than you were yesterday. A self improvement plan

11. What is the future of the career, you choose
Technologies change so the work patterns changes, so a worker also has to. As per the technologies changes, also keep yourself updated according to time and skills. Learn new skills and improve technical skill for better cope with the change. Before making career choices also focus on what is the potential market of this work in the future?

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Monk at 25 is a Life lesson Blog. Ketan, 20s guy is writer at monk at 25. Discussion on own life experiences, Career calling in 20s and own learning. To help other and make an positive imapct.