Via Forbes, a few things to factor when thinking about taking up civilian life:
- What you can be the best in the world at (and, equally important, what can you not be the best in the world at)?
- What drives your economic engine?
- What you are deeply passionate about?
Here’s a better way that couches it in terms you can do something about:
- Skills: What skills do you have and what must you develop?
- Personality: Who are you really? You won’t be able to change it, so find the field where your personality is an asset.
- Intelligences: What are your God-given talents. Some psychologists say you have different kinds of intelligences. For example, good athletes have kinetic intelligence.
- Needs: What are the world’s need the other elements of this acronym help you meet?
- Experiences: How have your experiences prepared you?
Put them together, and you have SPINE, the backbone of your job search.
