1. What kinds of things do you like to do every day at work?
The sobering truth is that careers in the present are made day-by-day, hour-by-hour. It's important to see the forest for the trees and have a goal in mind for where you'd like to end up, but you must remember that if you hate your day-to-day job duties, you'll never be able to able to reach that zenith. On the other hand, when you find something where the daily grind isn't much of a grind at all, you might find the climb to the top to feel less like Mount Everest and more like a stroll through rolling foothills towards what your real dream career is.
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