Why You Will Pick the Wrong Career
Summary
TLDRIn this video, Lily, a computer science graduate, faces a dilemma between two job offers: software engineer and data scientist. Despite extensive research and networking, she finds it challenging to envision her future in either role. The narrator reassures her that it's normal to feel indecisive, as most people likely choose the 'wrong' career path initially. They emphasize the importance of a growth mindset, suggesting that adaptability and continuous learning are key to crafting a fulfilling career, rather than making a perfect choice upfront. The video also touches on the value of pursuing opportunities and the importance of personal interests alongside career choices.
Takeaways
- 🎓 Lily, a computer science graduate, has two job offers: one as a software engineer and one as a data scientist.
- 🤔 She is indecisive, having changed her major multiple times in college, and fears choosing the wrong career path.
- 🔍 Lily has researched both fields and sought advice but finds it hard to envision herself in either role.
- 👩💻 The speaker reassures Lily that it's common to feel uncertain and that most people likely choose the 'wrong' career at first.
- 🧠 Only 27% of college graduates have a job in their field of study, indicating that career paths often change post-graduation.
- 🚀 Successful people often pivot in their careers, as exemplified by Elon Musk's transition from economics and physics to entrepreneurship.
- 💡 The key to a successful career is a growth mindset, which allows for adaptability and continuous learning.
- 🌟 The speaker suggests choosing the career that offers the most learning opportunities and embracing the chance to grow.
- 💼 The importance of aligning career choices with personal values, including financial stability and quality of life, is highlighted.
- 📚 Brilliant.org is recommended as a resource for developing a growth mindset and learning new skills in STEM fields.
Q & A
What are the two job offers Lily received after graduating from college?
-Lily received two job offers: one as a software engineer and one as a data scientist.
Why is Lily having a hard time deciding between the two job offers?
-Lily is having a hard time deciding because software engineering is more familiar and has more job openings, while she has a genuine interest in data and enjoyed machine learning courses.
What is the speaker's perspective on choosing the right career?
-The speaker believes that it's almost inevitable to choose the wrong career at first, as it's hard to know if you'll like something without experiencing it, and many jobs didn't even exist a few years ago.
What is the percentage of college graduates that have a job in their major according to the video?
-Only 27% of college graduates have a job in their major.
What is the key mindset that the speaker suggests for a successful career?
-The speaker suggests that a growth mindset, which believes intelligence, talents, and abilities are learnable and improvable, is the key to a successful career.
How does the speaker relate personal career changes to the concept of a growth mindset?
-The speaker relates personal career changes to a growth mindset by stating that successful people often start in one career and pivot when opportunities present themselves, demonstrating adaptability and continuous learning.
What advice does the speaker give to Lily regarding her career choice?
-The speaker advises Lily to choose the option that allows her to learn the most and to be open to new opportunities for learning and growth.
Why does the speaker mention Elon Musk in the video?
-The speaker mentions Elon Musk as an example of someone who started in one field and pivoted to another, demonstrating the ability to adapt and seize opportunities, which is a trait of having a growth mindset.
What is the role of the sponsor 'brilliant.org' in the context of the video?
-Brilliant.org is mentioned as a resource for developing a growth mindset through self-study and learning new things, particularly in STEM subjects, which aligns with the video's theme of continuous learning and improvement.
What is the speaker's personal approach to career and passion, as mentioned in the video?
-The speaker is conservative by nature and values financial stability and status, suggesting that while they may prioritize a high-paying job, they also self-learn and explore passions like filmmaking to potentially combine them in the future.
Outlines
🎓 Career Decision Dilemma
The video opens with a sponsorship acknowledgment and introduces Lily, a recent computer science graduate facing a choice between two job offers: software engineering and data science. Despite her extensive job search and interviews, she is indecisive, having changed her college major multiple times. The narrator suggests that choosing the 'wrong' career path is common, and it's nearly impossible to predict job satisfaction without experiencing the role. Only a small percentage of college graduates end up in jobs related to their major, indicating career paths are often unpredictable. The video emphasizes that a growth mindset, the belief that abilities can be developed, is crucial for adapting and thriving in any career choice.
🚀 Crafting the Perfect Career
The video continues by encouraging viewers not to stress over choosing the 'perfect' career, as many successful people have changed their career paths. It suggests that one should focus on developing a growth mindset to adapt and learn from opportunities. The narrator shares personal anecdotes and examples of people who pivoted in their careers, like a bike racer who became a growth marketer, illustrating the dynamic nature of career development. The video concludes with a sponsorship message for Brilliant.org, a platform for interactive learning in STEM subjects, which aligns with the theme of continuous learning and growth. The narrator also shares a personal preference for financial stability and the pursuit of passions alongside a primary career, suggesting a balanced approach to career and personal interests.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Career Choice
💡Software Engineering
💡Data Science
💡Growth Mindset
💡Indecisiveness
💡Machine Learning
💡Career Pivot
💡Job Market Trends
💡Self-Learning
💡Brilliant.org
💡Opportunity
Highlights
Lily graduates with a computer science degree and receives two job offers: one as a software engineer and one as a data scientist.
Software engineering is a more defined career with more job openings, while data science is a rapidly growing field.
Lily has always been indecisive, changing her major multiple times in college.
The video suggests that it's almost inevitable to choose the wrong career due to the abstract nature of predicting job satisfaction.
Only 27% of college graduates have a job in their major, indicating the fluidity of career choices.
The importance of having a growth mindset is emphasized for adapting and thriving in any career choice.
Successful people often pivot multiple times in their careers, as exemplified by Elon Musk's diverse career path.
The video encourages viewers not to stress about choosing the perfect career, but to focus on personal growth and learning.
Lily is advised to choose the career that allows her to learn the most and to be open to new opportunities.
The video suggests that one doesn't simply choose their perfect career but rather crafts it through continuous learning and adaptation.
The speaker shares a personal anecdote about balancing financial stability with pursuing personal interests.
Brilliant.org is introduced as a resource for developing a growth mindset and learning new STEM subjects.
The video concludes with a call to action for viewers to share their career choices and thoughts in the comments.
Transcripts
thank you brilliant for sponsoring
today's video Lily is about to graduate
from college with a computer science
degree she applied to over 200 jobs and
went through grueling rounds of
interviews but it did pay off and she
ended up with two offers one as a
software engineer and one as a data
scientist she's obviously super happy
grateful very very relieved but now the
question is which to choose on one hand
software engineering is something that
she's more familiar with it has a lot
more job openings it's a more defined
career a lot of her friends are software
Engineers on the other hand she's always
been interested in data she also really
enjoyed taking the machine learning
courses that were offered as electives
and the field of data science seems like
it's growing rapidly with more and more
people being interested in data and
using data so what to do what to do she
has watched all the videos about
software engineering about data science
she's reach out to people on LinkedIn
But ultimately it feels really abstract
because it's hard to Envision yourself
actually going down either career paths
and knowing which one you would like
better and you know the thing is Lily
has always been a pretty indecisive
person at least when it comes to her
career in college change your major a
lot going from Finance to pharmacology
to literature and she ultimately settled
on computer science basically it has
been a struggle and she has commitment
issues to her it feels like every step
she's supposed to narrow down what it is
that she wants to do for the rest of her
life with all the other options just
closing forever the thought of choosing
wrong terrifies her okay so this is what
I would tell you don't sweat it girl
you're right you are probably going to
choose the wrong career wait what did
you say but it's okay almost everybody
does I mean seriously the probability of
you choosing the right career is so
small first of all how are you supposed
to know you would really like doing
something without embarking on that
journey and actually experiencing it for
example maybe you think data science is
about building fancy machine learning
models maybe you think it's about like a
lot of coding and in reality it might
just be you sitting there cleaning data
for 80 of your time and losing your mind
here's that only 27 of college grads
have a job in their major another reason
why you probably choose your career
wrong it's at the by the careers are
very long in fact a lot of the jobs that
you see right now were even available
like five years or ten years ago and
it's hard to imagine what jobs will look
like in five years or ten years from now
and you get people like me and I
genuinely love what I do right now I
love my job I think my career is going a
direction that I will be very happy with
in the future as well but what exactly
do I do I make internet videos for you
guys I write a newsletter which by the
way y'all should check out over here
where I talk about my life and stuff and
I run an octopus program about
self-learning like what like how could I
possibly have known that I would be
doing something like this so you see if
you somehow decide that you want to just
like must exactly get the best career
right now that is a lot of pressure on
yourself and statistically speaking
you're probably going to be wrong unless
you know yourself very well and you can
also predict the future and even some of
the smartest and most successful people
out there has pivoted multiple times in
their career Elon Musk for example
graduated from UPenn with a dual degree
in physics and Ecom he started a PhD
program in Material Science ended up
dropping out and then founded several
companies in a bunch of different fields
sure Rose Amber the formal CEO of meta
she started with a bachelor in economics
worked at the World Bank did an MBA went
to management consulting worked in
advertising and then ended up as the
chief operating officer at the tech
company okay so I hope I drove home that
point that it's okay I don't stress out
so much like you're probably gonna
choose the wrong career anyway a bit
rude but noted and it's okay if you
change your mind some of the most
successful people do but I do want to
make a point that there is one thing
that matters way way more to have an
amazing career and it's something that
all successful people share and that is
a growth mindset someone with a growth
mindset believes that intelligence
talents and abilities are learnable and
you can improve on them and this is in
contrast with someone with a fixed
mindset that believes that you pretty
much are given what you have and then
that's about it so having this growth
mindset is what allows you to adapt to
improve and to learn so you can thrive
in whatever it is that you choose to do
and when the opportunity presents itself
for something better it allows you to
take that opportunity and and jump to
the next thing and then thrive in that
as well now that is how you end up with
the best career for you going back to
Elon Musk he's one of the best examples
out there like the guy started off in
something he realized that there was
another opportunity that he could take
advantage of and he just jumps at the
opportunity he went from an econ and
physics person to building Rockets
that's insane from my personal
experience as well I noticed that the
smartest people and the most successful
people are often those that started off
in a certain career ended up like
pivoting and jumping when opportunity
presents itself for example I know a guy
who races bikes and now he works in
growth marketing a doctor who became a
software engineer and it became a crypto
developer these people are so Dynamic
and I think they are the ones that end
up being the happiest with the career
that they ultimately craft for
themselves okay so hopefully you feel
less stressed out about this now and are
more interested in developing a growth
mindset but let's go back to Lily's
example she still has to make a choice
do we go for software engineering or do
we go for data science well in Lily's
case obviously both offers are
absolutely amazing my advice would be to
go for the choice that allows you to
learn the most commit to this open
yourself up go out there and learn as
much as you can and when you're
presented with the opportunity to learn
more something that's exciting something
that's new to keep that opportunity
because you're confident in your ability
to learn and to adopt any situation
which will push you to Greater Heights
and that is how you end up crafting your
perfect career you see you don't choose
your perfect career you craft your
perfect career okay so before I end this
video I do want to make one more point
you see I'm a pretty conservative person
by Nature what I mean by this is that I
respect people who are able to pursue
their passions and be like this is the
thing that I love doing and they don't
think that much about money or status
but with me I do care about money I do
care about status and I also like having
a certain quality of life so if I were
given the choice between something like
I don't know like a film assistant I may
be super interested in Philips super
passionate about it or a job offer a
tech company in which I'm making really
good money I will go with the tech
company that's making me really good
money but while I'm on that job I would
also be self-learning how to do film
stuff and maybe create a YouTube channel
so I'm able to explore that side of
things as well maybe one day I will have
an an opportunity in which I can then
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video all right I hope you enjoyed this
video I hope this was helpful for you I
hope you feel less stressed out about
choosing the right career and things
like that let me know in the comments if
you're choosing between different
careers right now what the different
options are and what you think you're
going to do now and I will see you guys
in the next video for live stream
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