Is your career heading in the right direction?

Technology has dominated the world in the last 30-40 years, with the arrival of personal computers and then smart phones, things have changed dramatically so did the Industries and Businesses over the period. It is very important to understand if your career is heading in the right direction or you need to reassess the situation and take the right route.

Is Money affecting your choices:

Earlier in your career, Do not let money decide your path. Although, it is one of the primary reasons why people might choose or refuse few options in the career but you have to make sure you don't let it dominate your choices and stick to your career goals. If Money is deciding your career path, it might feel you are doing good in a shorter term but in a longer run, you are certainly on a wrong track.

Is your Job challenging or not?

If you want to prosper in the career and life, you have to push yourself to your limits. To get maximum out of your abilities, you can't do stuff that everyone does and expect to be a rockstar in your career. To attain bigger results, you have to choose a job or career which is challenging and not something you already know. Challenges never come alone, they bring opportunities as well, if you truly believe in yourself, you will convert those challenges into opportunities and be successful in the career.

What did you learn in last six months?

As I already mentioned, world is moving at the speed of light and anyone who doesn't evolve their skills, do not focus on learning new things might suffer in the career. If you find yourself not learning anything new in the last six months, there is something wrong which have to be fixed to move on. It could be your job, your current function, current project or simply your attitude which is not letting you learn new stuff, whatever the reason is you are the one who will rectify it and take things forward by your own.

Are you working for the Future?

Is your work aiming the Future or not? Are you visualizing what would be there in the next 5-10 years. Why Apple succeeded and Blackberry failed? Because Apple realized the real potential of the next era of computing while Blackberry failed to get out of the Business worlds' users. Think again and make sure you are working for the Future, if not, you are on a road which will end soon.

In the end, I would say its never too late in your career, everyone makes right and wrong choices at times but those who learn from their mistakes and do not repeat those mistakes in the future are the ones who succeed in the career.