With every passing year, the mad rush for becoming doctor, an engineer, a lawyer, manager, and other professions is facing its decline. Gone are the days when the only options to choose from were limited to a handful of well-known professions, Individual today have much more flexibility and many more options to choose from. Thinking out of the box is truly the mantra of today! Now dreaming somewhat offbeat can let you enjoy the difference of a road less travel. Today’s generation has a variety of options to choose from depending upon their interests, skills and personal characteristics.
Why choose an offbeat career? No two people are the same. Today there is no dearth of offbeat and unconventional careers to choose from each offering its fair share of responsibilities, challenges, and rewards in the form of creative satisfaction and flexibility. Offbeat/unconventional careers are becoming more and more popular with the majority of individuals opting for these interesting, challenging and new opportunities with a will to make an impact in this ever-changing and growing world.
Let us look at some interesting careers which are paved by the passion of the out-of-the-box thinkers.
Creative writing: Whether we talk about newspaper, magazine or online websites the written words are required at all levels thus, creating a growing requirement for individuals with a knack for writing and communicating with the power of words. As evident from the title, a creative writer is a person who writes high-quality content for print and web media.
Yoga instructor and trainer: In today’s strenuous and stressful lifestyle, more and more individuals are searching for means to achieve a sense of well-being, peace, and tranquillity. Once experienced and trained as a yoga trainer, there is no dearth of career opportunities as a yoga teacher in schools, colleges, corporate, wellness retreat, hotels and spas and more.
Dance choreographer: Especially in India, the entertainment industry is one of the fastest growing industries that create a large number of job opportunities in the field of dance. Those individuals, who love to dance, are artistic, creative and are flexible and trained in different dance forms usually opt for a career as a dance choreographer.
E-tutor: The concept of E-tutoring has gained a lot of attention in India as well as across the globe, especially in the USA and UK. An e-tutor is a person who offers tuitions to students using the internet, thus referred to as e-tutor. A lot of people are opting to teach online as it provides a lot of flexibility as well as a steady income flow.
Photography: Gone are the days when photography was considered to be just a hobby. If you have a liking for animals, nature and enjoy travel and are passionate about taking pictures and are good at it too, you can consider building an offbeat career in wildlife photography.
Fitness industry: The health and fitness industry is one of the fastest growing industries in India and abroad making the job of fitness trainer very important. The desire to lose weight, stay fit and look good is common amongst people of all age group. Adding to this the importance of adopting a healthy lifestyle is throwing up a multitude of career opportunities for personal fitness trainers, dieticians, therapists, weight management experts, group fitness instructors, and yoga experts.
Apart from the above offbeat courses, one can also opt for Calligraphy, Cartoonist, Food writer, Celebrity manager, Translators, Animation, Beauty industry, Wedding planners and the list could go on. With the ever-changing economy, it is good to know that there will be plenty of jobs to take advantages of in the near future.
