Little signs you’re on the right path

Little Signs you’re on the right path

    In today's digital world, almost every website asks for your email and contact information. If you're like me, you're probably extremely sick of it. But that's not what I'm going to talk about today, that's a whole other topic.

    Today, I'm going to talk about the little ways you can tell if something is the right career for you. This is coming from someone who has analysis paralysis, changed her major 9 times in college, then ultimately decided to pursue Aviation and Real Estate. 

A few unexpected signs that your new career is right for you:

1. When you get mass emails from them, it doesn't bug you.

    The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) sends me emails almost every day. When I see them, I get curious and think, "Oh what's this about." 

    Temu sends me emails every day, and I get extremely frustrated. One, because I thought I blocked them from doing this. Two, because I have to pay Google extra money to store my emails that I don't even want or care about just to get vital incoming emails that I do care about.

  [It should be a crime to send that many marketing emails anyway....but I digress.]

2.  You are helping people, or a person, accomplish something, get something, or learn something.

    Here on Earth, we cannot survive without each other. This is not an opinion; this is a fact. Just from sitting where you are, look at what's around you. You're sitting at a desk, made of metal or wood. Think about it. If it's wood, a tree had to be grown by Mother Earth or an Arboretum, and my guess is that you probably don't have the 25 + years to wait for a tree to grow to manufacture it into a desk. It had to be chopped down by a lumberman, processed by a factory, shaped, chemically treated by another system of workers, then shipped to a furniture company, who then decided that it’s much cheaper to throw it in a wood chipper with glue and other binding materials, and it weighs less too, so le Post: Edit ss shipping cost. And we haven't even decided the design, the shape, or the functionality of the desk yet. After a design team comes together, decides the shape, functionality, style, and size of the desk, off to the factory it goes. Here, the particle board can be divvied up and shaped, then all the parts double checked by some other fellows. Then they had to reach out to another company, a hardware manufacturer, to get the desk pulls, slides, screws, and joint supports. At this point, just for the desk in front of you, it has taken the collective effort of about 300 + people, systematically working together just to get the desk to a shipping carrier. From there the entire global logistics depends on sea men, pilots, last mile drivers, the postal system, Fedex, Amazon, to get it to your door.  And that's for just your desk. I'm guessing you're drinking water right now, live in a house, or apartment, you need food, clothes, toothpaste, shampoo, and all the other countless products that you use. None of this would be possible without other humans. 

With this said, if your new job supports the collective human race, or even just helps one person out who doesn't have what you have to offer, then you’re on the right path. And if you feel like you’re not still, suit up and show up anyway, because it might lead you in the right direction.

You must get out there and show yourself and what you have to offer. You can’t sit at home, avoid people, live off others’ labor, and expect work to find you. It’s already supporting your life in millions of unseen ways.

   I remember one morning when I was feeling depressed (depression= self-imposed terminal helplessness), I woke up wondering when my Amazon package was going to arrive. 

Without skipping a beat, it hit me: there's a whole global system working together- the manufacturer making supplies, the sales team advertising them, and the shipping company traversing the seas from the Port of China to the Port of LA. It really made me think, "Damn, I want to be a part of that." That kind of coordination, that invisible teamwork — it made me realize I want my work to matter in the same way. Isn't that why we're on this planet to begin with? 

3. You feel like yourself when you're doing it.

    There’s a certain feeling that comes when you’re in the right space — not just physically, but mentally and emotionally. You stop performing. You stop pretending. It’s so subtle you might not even realize it. That’s how the fifth dimension is anyway — it’s very subtle. As we transition out of this third dimension and become more of who we’re meant to be, we start to see the shift. You’re no longer chasing a job title or trying to impress anyone. You just… are.

    Your energy matches the task. Time moves differently. You stop checking the clock, or even asking if this is “what you’re supposed to be doing,” because deep down, you already know. It feels like you’ve come home to yourself. And it’s not always some big, grand epiphany — I mean, it can be — but more often, it’s quiet. Subtle. It’s a state of flow. It’s being in the groove.

    Like playing along to good music — the “you” drops away, and all that’s left is the doing. The movement. The harmony. And that’s when you know — you’re in the right place.

Conclusion

   So how do you know if it's the right career? It's not always obvious. It doesn't come with flashing lights or a five-year plan. Sometimes, it's in the little things — like being genuinely curious about the emails in your inbox. It's in recognizing that what you do helps move the world forward, even in small ways. It's in those quiet moments when you're doing something and you feel more you than ever — like you're finally in sync with yourself and the world around you.

    The right career won’t always feel perfect, but it will feel aligned. It won’t drain you — it’ll draw something deeper out of you. It will ask you to show up, and in return, it will help you become more of who you were always meant to be.