Decision Paralysis, and Your First Job

In searching for your first job, you likely gave many interviews and faced numerous rejections.

After enduring the initial difficulties, you might have encountered a big dilemma: choosing and deciding from the available options.

At this point, confusion and decision paralysis likely set in.

Decision paralysis occurs because your choices might be way different from what you had originally sought. The jobs might not be exactly what you had initially desired to do.

You feel afraid to choose an option because you feel it might be the wrong choice; it might be the wrong train headed for the wrong future.

You are stuck . . .

. . . and if you don’t decide you’ll remain stuck.

Make the choice to move forward from that “stuck position”—the stuck position of indecision.

Pick an option that looks worthy of all the options “present now.” Make your choice, explore it further, work hard, and give the “option” you chose a chance to survive.

Don’t be afraid that you will be “stuck” with the choice you made for your whole life. It doesn’t have to be that way. You can always choose something more worthy in the future that will be the present then.

You don’t first create a career in your head and then live it. You create your career by living through it.

So, choose the best option from what is present now and move forward from there.