I’ve just been listening to an audio recording of The Happiness Show, episode number 123, where George Ortega and Claudia Bassin chat with guest Ed Smith about happiness, success and choosing the right job.
Ed suggested a technique for choosing the right job, that sounded really neat to me, so I thought I’d give it try. Here’s how it goes.

1. Throughout 10 days look for things around you interest you.
2. Any potential job or career attracts your attention, write it down on a piece of scrap paper and put it away in an envelope you keep with you.
3. Each day set aside the pieces of scrap papers you’ve collected, and at the end of the 10 days, you should have 10 piles of paper scraps of things that you piqued your interest at some point.
4. Chuck all the piles together and jumble them up.
5. One by one open each scrap of paper, and see if those things still interest you and set them aside. You might find some ridiculous job choices, as you are writing these job choices down on impulse throughout the 10 day period, but if something still strikes a chord with you 10 days later, that must mean something.
6. From those scraps that still strike a chord with you, try to find similarities and overlaps. There’s the career for you.