Akhil Sharma Quotes

But everything that I did starting out, every job that I had, I haven't regretted any of them. They've all been informative, interesting in one way or another. With a career, I think there's this idea that you're just trying to get somewhere. It's like, "Oh, okay, let's keep going, because if I do this, I can get this, I get this, this." It wasn't that way. I did what I wanted to do when it was in front of me, and I'm trying to continue to do that.

For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.

If you're successful at a young age, no matter the profession, there has to come a time when you reevaluate everything, what it means to you. 'Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life?'

If you knew what you wanted to be when you were 6 years old - great! If you have no idea what you want to be, that's OK!

I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

At one point, I quit acting for a little bit to study psycholinguistics - somewhat a more practical career. It just didn't feel right.

I don't live out my career, I live my life.

I never pondered during my struggling phase that I should have become an engineer, as I knew that was not my life. I couldn't have lived it. It would have been a very claustrophobic life.

I didn't want to come to the end of my career and think, 'What next?'

I had these false ambitions - marketing and MBA. I didn't do very badly at it, but I realised my calling was something else.

I think the most important advice is, a person doesn't have to find out right away. It's not like their first attempt at finding a profession is the only one they're going to find. I might well have gone down other paths, and it still might have been okay. But if you find something that you love, and if it keeps deepening with each new experience, then just stay with it.

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about.

When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!

My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done.

I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.

I don't know what I am doing tomorrow. But I know one thing for sure: the day I stop enjoying my work, I will pack up and leave.

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.