Minding Your Business

Why does a 20-23-year-old, just about to graduate, have so much to think about what they should do next? Why are they so stressed about finding a job that pays them well, and why is that the main thing they think about when they try to identify their careers?

Minding Your Business is a collective that aims to provide both the space and a framework to facilitate career conversations that are informal, reflective and immersive.

Our toolkit emphasizes careers in the social sector with an understanding that in the long run, these careers provide a higher level of meaning and satisfaction to the individual and because of the variety of job roles that one can take up in this sector. Within the social sector, one can use combinations of their interests and skills to bring about noticeable impact in their society. Personally for me I wanted people to think about themselves more as someone who can create a job to fit their skills and interests than people who would shape themselves for a job that has already been designed. The mindshift I was focusing on here was mainly about building that confidence in self and a leadership mentality when thinking about career options.