Career Choices

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In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honorable prophets and messengers. Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and upon his family and companions, and upon the many and short-lived. I am walking in Meadul-e-Nakyu Park. There is a blue jay that is flying from branch to branch. The undergrowth is too thick. Not thick, but there is a lot of drinks and dry branches. What I can hear is that blue jay and the couple, other friendly bees are flying around. It's absolutely beautiful atmosphere, which is minus seven degrees Celsius. As you can see, there is snow everywhere, except where it has been removed. It hasn't snowed recently, so this snow is about two or three days old. But the temperatures haven't risen at all, so it's not melted. What fell is still there. So you can't really walk on... I can't walk on the paths that I usually walk on. These are the main roads inside the park, which have been plowed and cleared. So I'm walking on them. Couple of things. One is, in terms of career planning, the program that I did recently, a live role, some questions that came to me, which I want to address. One question was, I emphasized there and I always emphasize that it's extremely important to have a main marketable, saleable skill that is yours, that you are licensed on, that you train on, that you're licensed on, and that skill which can help you earn money. One main skill. Now it's okay if you just have that one skill, but you might say, Well, you know, I'm also interested in something else and I'll give you some live examples. So what about that? I said, no problem. If you're interested in it, by all means pursue it, do it, but have that main skill with you. So the main skill is your bread and butter, and the other one that you're doing is the jam. So you need, you can do without the jam if you need to, but you can't do without the bread and butter. So make sure that you have your bread and butter in place before you go after the jam. To give you an example, I'm talking about America, Canada, all these places. Some of the most, some of the best skills to learn. I mean, I would learn if I wasn't my age and if I didn't already have my main skill, which is probably one of the only things that AI can never touch. And that is to be paid for your life experience translated into somebody else's life, which they can use. And that's my definition of consulting. So anyway, one of the best skills to learn is anything to do with living. So plumbing, electrical engineering, carpentry, you know, all that kind of stuff. In this country, heating systems and air conditioning systems. So I say to young people, get that skill. Now in this country, in our country, we have this very false sense of intraday with regard to these jobs. And you say, oh, bacha plumber hai kaise bholinge. Rishwas Khada so bol sakte. Plumber hai nahi bol sakte. This is the kind of garbage that got us to where we are. So there's no infraday, there's nothing wrong in doing a job and doing it well. So get us, get a license in any of these and there will be many out there. So I'm not telling you to restrict yourself to just these four. Plumbing, electricals, carpentry and air conditioning, heating systems. There can be many other things, but check for that. What is your criterion of assessing? Assessing. In my view, the criterion of assessing is the product that you are delivering must be a product which is essential to life. It must not be a product which is a discretionary buy for your customer. The customer has come to you and he has no choice. You are fixing his life for him. He comes to you when he has a problem and you are fixing that problem. So the benefit is that you get the benefit of fixing the problem. The customer does not grumble about paying you.