If you’re making a career decision that’s inspired by the total freedom of choice, it would naturally be advised that you do indeed follow your heart and follow your passion. The problem with equating passion with a career however is the fact that careers and jobs are defined within rather rigid borders, whereas someone’s true passion can never really be contained in one explicitly defined career with explicitly defined tasks forming part of that career’s job description. If you love sports for example, working as an admin clerk for a big sporting franchise hardly counts as following your passion because what you’ll still be doing everyday is indeed the admin work you’re tasked with.
Create Your Own Career
Apart from those who brave it out just to enjoy the big fat paycheque they get at the end of the week or month, the only people who are truly happy in their jobs or careers are those who created those careers for themselves, in one way or another. This applies across the board — you even get some professional footballers who are only really in it for the money and could never legitimately claim that they’re earning their money doing the one thing which they truly love.
It may take a little while to actually reach a stage where you’re now a hundred percent sure of what it is you’re truly passionate about and perhaps part of this journey of discovery entails pursuing a career path which does not form part of what you’re passionate about, even though you may believe so at the time. There should be a plan to eventually make the transition into something you’re truly passionate about however, but if you are armed with this information and desire to create your own career from the onset, you’ll realise that the financial industry is perhaps the best environment in which to create something for yourself. Being in the financial industry doesn’t limit you in working with accounting formulas. In fact, there is a rise in the number of fintech companies which offers services with the help of technology – from loans to investments.
Yes, the software engineers and programmers may make what’s perhaps a strong argument for citing their industry as the one in which a career can be tailor-made, but they still have to apply themselves technically in order to create whatever it is they are tasked with creating. If you want to create a certain programme for instance, you still have sit down and type out some code, whereas in the financial sector it’s all about regulation, compliance and representation.
In the same way that companies like Stanton Fisher found themselves succeeding with the provision of services such as helping clients with their financial claims, the financial industry pretty much encompasses every other industry. In order for the financial sector to function, the tools they make use of are borrowed from other industries, such as the legal industry (financial claims, regulation, etc.), the technology industry (tech infrastructure used for trades and the likes) and every other industry from which derivative markets are created.
If you’re passionate about clothes for instance, you can have a field day in the financial sector as a broker maybe, a direct trader of clothes, a speculator who deals with that specific niche, or just about anything else you really want.
