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[Thread] What is your Professional Mission in Life?

Talking to a lot of senior folks I’ve realised something:

If you’re good at what you do, 20s are marked by meteoric growth, salaries increase exponentially as you climb the corporate ladder but it is at the expense of your youth and vitality.

By mid 30s, you’ve been robbed of your youth while you were busy chasing the next paycheck and your earnings stay consistent as progression starts to plateau.

That’s why a lot of these B2B SaaS founders are mid 30s. There’s now a trend for an entrepreneurial switch at that point in life because it is the only way to sustain the same level of earnings growth as your 20s.

A lesson learnt too late, maybe? Because, we all think about financial risk but not much about time risk.

Now imagine if only you would spend the early part of your adulthood doing something that is mightily ambitious, foregoing your “career” earnings for some time in exchange for impact and reward, while your youth hasn’t faded away.

It doesn’t have to be the case that you become a founder, but perhaps you can join a company which is a melting pot of highly talented folks aligned on the same goal, something that inspires you as well.

Drop by with your professional purpose that drives you in your life, would love to hear your perspective.

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JumpyPotato
JumpyPotato

A dream not for my 20s but 30s. I want to open a psychology/psychiatry health centre in my city and run it as a non medical person and employ actual professionals and not quacks from instagram.

SquishyQuokka
SquishyQuokka
Gojek20mo

@Kotakachori11 Is your background in Psychology/Psychiatry? Or you’re interested in this and will hire subject matter experts/professionals?

This sounds very exciting tbh.

Do let me know about what inspired you to want to do this as well?

JumpyPotato
JumpyPotato

No. I am a btech. Working in regular job. To practice as a simple counsellor psychologist, i can do an MA from IGNOU but that is very basic. Though for further advanced work and dealing with high disorder patients, mphil in clinical psychology is needed which needs investment of time and money. Psychiatry no chance for me as i am no doctor.

Most probably will save money and hire professionals while i manage the business and admin. At best i can add onn the IGNOU course. Many non medical people do open health centres though with time it's getting very difficult and cumbersome even for doctors. So i don't know how i may proceed. It might turn out to be just another khayali pulao though i hope it doesn't.

What inspired me ? Trying to get a family member suffering from a disease treated while observing so much stupid cliche info going around. As i became open about my family issue to people around me, at least 4-5 people approached me in the last one year on some other patient in their family and where to seek help.

WobblyPancake
WobblyPancake
Meta20mo

My only professional dream is to get out of it as soon as possible.

SquishyQuokka
SquishyQuokka
Gojek20mo

@MarkZuckerberg Spoken like a true gentleman. 😂😂😂

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