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To the UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT who is OVERWHELMED about what career to pursue

Here’s the best advice I received as an undergraduate:

📌Treat your journey to CAREER CLARITY like a series of TINY EXPERIMENTS.

Embrace as many opportunities as you can in the beginning. See each opportunity (the big, the small, the in-between) as a chance to learn about yourself. Approach it with the mindset of I’m just trying this out, I’ll give it my best, and we’ll see how it goes.

JUST TRY THINGS OUT

Some experiences will excite you, some won’t—but they will all contribute to building that database of what you like and wouldn’t like in a dream career. It might take days, months, or even years, but one day, you’ll have enough data to say, “I think I finally found THE career path…”

But that clarity will not come from stressing and thinking about it and disturbing Google (poor guy).

✅ Clarity requires data.

✅ Data comes from experiences.

✅ Experiences come from doing and exploring—EXPERIMENTING.

❌ There is no secret career clarity formula.

❌ No career coach can tell you exactly what you’re meant to do.

❌ And you definitely won’t find your dream career path on the first page of Google.

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When I joined the Student Finance Club in my third year of university, I had no perfect plan of, oh, I would then leverage that experience:

🟢 To secure my first CFA Access Scholarship.

🟢 To land my first graduate role as a Financial Analyst.

🟢 More importantly, I had no idea how those experiences were shaping my conclusion that finance wasn’t really for me.

When I explored tutoring as an undergraduate, I didn’t know it would:

🟢 Land me a role at Umaru Musa Yar’adua University during NYSC.

🟢 Serve as teaching experience in my MSc application—the degree that ultimately gave me access to secure an Economist role in the Department for Education.

🟢 Help me prove my mentorship skills during my International Student Ambassador interview.

🟢 Most importantly, show me how much I love teaching and confirm that I’d return to lecturing economics someday (Insha’Allah).

Eventually, everything made sense—some things are still coming together.

But it all started with just trying things out…not knowing exactly where they would lead

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My advice: Make your undergraduate years your "just trying it out" era; there is little at stake, and the pressure is low.

❌ Stop stressing and obsessing over connecting the dots from the start.

✅ Start doing, and trust that one day, you'll look at your CV with a big smile and say, "It all makes sense now."

Cheers to clarity!

Drop your best career advice below—let’s empower each other! 👇🏽

P.S.: If this inspires you, repost ♻️ to inspire another undergrad.

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Baliqees, you might see this or not, but this post is dedicated to you. I hope it inspires you to trust your gut and just try things out to see where it leads. Thank you Aminat for the opportunity to speak with your community Sparcool Connect.

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