On the best career-finder assessment you can take.

Take a trip to your local bookstore or library.

What section(s) do you gravitate to?

Cooking? Coding? Natural Science? Psychology? Business? Teen Fantasy? Art? Engineering?

That might be the best career-finder test you can take.

Find out what section most interests you. Or something you simply want to learn more about. Pick up a book and start reading. Learn something.

Write about it. Talk about it. Read more books about it. Take an online course on it. Connect with people who are as interested in it as you.

And then (maybe) if you’re up for it, go to school and get a degree in it. Or create a online presence that shows a dozen projects that display your competency. Submit your resume. Land that job.

I’ve found that (at least for me), it’s really hard to pin-point my passion (let alone what I want to be when I grow up), mainly because I have so many interests. But after looking up and seeing where I find myself coming to again and again at the bookstore, it’s quite clear to me what my interests are.

Maybe I don’t need to find my passion. Maybe I never will. But I do know what I want to learn more about. I do know what genre of books lend themselves to my reading list. And I do know (on the flip side) what I frankly don’t find all that intriguing compared to what I do.

Maybe that’s all it takes to figure out what to do next.

An interest or two. A bookstore. And the curiosity it takes to continue reading and absorbing and discovering more knowledge about what you find engaging.