Your Career Lasts a Lifetime
From the day you are released from education you are pushed into your career and the aim of you career is to keep building on the job you did last. Even in retirement you got the option to keep improving your life.
Your Property Career Can Move In Unlimited Ways
If you are choosing the property path you have so so many options, honestly its unlimited. The global population is heading towards to 7 billion mark and that basically means there is a demand for that many homes and then business premises on top – you know the places that keep the world turning! With so many people to please there is no longer one direction you can go in to mark your place in the property industry.
Property Qualifications Always Seem To Be A Must
Heading into the profession you are immediately forced into some sort of qualification whether that be your APC through the RICS or similar through architecture or residential property, its common knowledge between professionals that this will get you ‘further’ in your career.
To be honest, in general I would agree especially for your pay packet – although years in industry will eventually do the same.
What a qualification does do is promote constant learning. You have to know stuff to pass and you have to know it well – at the end these qualifications are a test of your competence.
But, you don’t have to know it all. The first time I took my apc I was worried I didn’t know it all. The second time I was excited because I knew I didn’t know it all. I had learnt something far more important…
Your Property Career Needs THIS
LIFE LONG LEARNING – I was constantly going to be learning. There would always be something I didn’t know. I just had to be confident in knowing that I could find the knowledge.
You will have goals for your career, goals that you only know about because someone told you and you liked what you heard (so you learnt about it).
Your goals will constantly change as you come to learn and understand more. Info, insight, golden nuggets of knowledge pop up everywhere, you just have to be ready to let them in and broaden your horizons.
More importantly the fact that you never stop learning means that EVERYTHING IS WITHIN YOUR REACH. OK you might not be in the position now to do something but it doesn’t stop you from actively going out and finding what you need to get there. And you know what, if you don’t want to do the professional qualification route you can just do it your own way, you just got to be prepared to keep learning.
Ask questions, listen to the answers, join training sessions or meetings with interesting titles. Push your boundaries and test new things.
It can also be as simple as reading this blog, listening to a podcast, having a strange conversation in a pub.
As a chartered surveyor I actively have to do at least 20 hours a year of this stuff. But that should’t be the maximum. Every experience should count, take something away with you. You know what even if you do something and decided you don’t like something – you’ve still learnt something.
If you only take one thing away from this blog I give you this:
There is nothing you can’t do with your property career providing you are willing to go out and learn the knowledge and ask the questions. Your goals are always within your reach so go out there and kick some career ass.
If this has been super helpful to you please share this with your friends, this information is so important I want everyone to understand that your property career is a continuous path there is no end (it’s also applicable to every profession so beneficial for all!).
NC
