A career is one

I am completely agreed with Babita. We should admit that our career growth depend on us. We should do what we wish to do. Only our passion can able to grow our career graph.

In the both cases of Mr. Komisar and Mr. Kartikey, we see that Komisar kept changing jobs getting knowledge in different fields and trying to do things that he found interesting. As a result he was a satisfied person and loved his job and succeeded. In career development, self-knowledge is everything. In a career, you can be two or three degrees off course and walk into a wall, instead of through a doorway. You don't have to be far off to have it fail. Career unhappiness often results from limited self-knowledge. Komisar acquired self-knowledge from different working fields, but in case of Kartikey he worked in the same field, he was doing well but ultimately he was not happy because his interest lied somewhere else.

In modern times you have to be always on the look out for a better opportunity. Money wise, job satisfaction wise, environment wise, prospective wise. If you get a job best by all means or you get a chance to work elsewhere where it promises greater prospects, nothing is wrong for shifting. But simply shifting from job to job is no good practice. Many companies will be hesitant to hire someone who's going to disappear on them frequently, especially if a job involves a significant amount of training. Only when you feel that your interest is gradually going to collapsed on your job, nothing is left behind for your organization and vice-versa, and then you should change your job.

Mr. Kartikey was right to take the decision, though he realized after 14years; he was finally doing what he really wanted to do.

Whatever Mr. Bagchi says it’s true that we have to satisfy job and job does not satisfy us, but we need to know what we want to do and we have to choose our career accordingly. That is where Kartikey went wrong as per my opinion. I observe that if you have worked same job in a company more than 3 years, you will reach the saturation point as per job or career, unless you shift on another job.

It is true that about 80% of people are unhappy at work and only 20% are happy. Our culture has separated work from passion, and taught us to prefer a higher paycheck to higher happiness. That mistake costs us our souls. The goal of career development is to uncover one's gifts and passions, and to link them to the practical needs of the world. We describe as "being in the right place," "finding a good fit," or "making the best use of one's talents."

On the conclusion, I feel that high compensation and high happiness are not incompatible. It's not that we shouldn't seek money. But we should first seek to love, or at least to like, what we're doing. That's the realization of our highest calling.