How to Choose a Profession Without Regretting It 20 Years Later

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AVAlexander VolchekAVAnna VolchekWork, profession, and career pathF/Friend / friendsTimeRolls-Royce

Main threads of the conversation

• 0:00Introduction
• 00:28What lies behind “follow your dream”
• 01:50Fundamental decisions and a long-term approach to your career
• 03:41Personal experience of choosing a life's work
• 04:23What to rely on when choosing a profession
• 06:00How to put dreams into practice
• 07:45Childhood and early skills: should you rely on them when choosing a profession?

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• 04:24

  So when someone is told, “Follow your dream,” that's an abstraction and an illusion.

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• 05:06

  They need, on the one hand, to look at things rationally: what opportunities there are, what the strategy is, what will happen if they take one action or another.

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• 05:54

  That's more than half of the twenty years that have passed since I graduated from university.

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• 06:12

  Someone says, “All my life, I've felt I need to do this.”

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• 06:19

  Most importantly, look at whether you could do this and do that at the same time, and do something else alongside it too.

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• 06:31

  You don't need to deny it, and you don't need to—you don't need to ruin yourself over it.

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• 06:54

  I couldn't even allow myself to start playing because I thought it was an enormous amount of work, something you had to devote yourself to completely.

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• 09:44

  For me, for me, putting on a meal for twenty people is like the two of us having coffee.

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• 10:19

  A friend of mine, Anya's husband, Lyosha, and I once talked about how, if we're living in California in the United States, we could retire, open a restaurant, and call it Alex.

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• 11:44

  There are all kinds of side effects from what you do, and the question is whether you're aware of what you're doing, what it will—look at what's happening.

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