Did you recognize the sage advice of the rocker George Thorogood. It is the song about how one brother goes to school, gets a degree and goes out and gets a “good job”. The other is a rock and roll singer and his parents and friends tell him to clean up and get a real job.

Of course the song goes onto say how the straight brother’s life sucks and the rocker makes millions. Can it happen this way? Of course it can, it just comes down to the basics of working hard at being great at what you do and keeping current to what the market wants.

In the search for a job, some people search for a life they want and it also pays. If you like to sing I would not suggest you look into singing for a living. If you LOVE to sing and that is all you think about, then maybe you can look into singing as a career.

I know people that love to SCUBA dive. That is all they think, read and talk about. They decided to search the world for places to open a dive shop and now they make a good amount of money in Thailand. They also have a fantastic life style.

There are those people that are chasing their dream job, most of them need to wake up and realize they are just dreaming. Getting a job that pays great and is something you want to do takes work. You must be truly good at what you do, not necessarily the best at it but at least you must be very good. Are you? If you're not, then either get very good at it or move on to another career choice.

The other key thing is to position yourself in a way so that the job becomes available to you. For example, my Thailand friends, they researched all over the world for places to go. At the time they found Thailand has great diving but not a lot of SCUBA diving operations. They went to Thailand and made their job happen.

It took a lot of work and they think it was worth it. They could have gone to more traditional dive locations but there are already several dive shops there. They needed to go to an area that they could make their job happen.

Remember on your search for a job, sometimes you can have a real job and keep your hair.

Ward Willison
http://www.sharktechniques.com/