Professional Reflection 

How do you find what you want to do? In my experience as a practitioner, it is usually a process of elimination. Whilst of course there are people who, when they first touch the keys of a piano during childhood, know this is what they will do for the rest of their lives. For the rest of us however, we actually need to roll our sleeves up, get our hands dirty, decide there is much about the work, role or environment that we really don’t like, and then repeat the process somewhere else. This is what we ‘normal’ people do.
What the normal people do to progress through the trial and error phase faster, is they reflect on the process regularly. They reflect less on what they did not like, but reflecting on, and pulling forward, the bits that they did like.
This is how you build a career path, by putting your energies into the bits that you did like in order to multiply them. If, from each work context, or role you engage with, you can take the thing you did like, this can inform your choice about your next role or context. It is this practical, experiential approach that can turn what can sometimes seem like a disastrous journey, into a refining process.
This way you transform what appears to a mad dash, literally careering from role to role, into a productive career pathway. It is the professional reflection that makes the difference. 
You can theorise and analyse as much as you like, but, it is the cycle of choosing and experiencing, the un-choosing and reflecting, that we become clear about what it is that we really seek.  
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