I can't envision my future.

Wouldn't it be fine to make a plan or not make a plan? Decide something like a big goal, write it down in a notebook, etc., and keep it gently.
The mind naturally starts moving towards that point.

I think there are a lot of monks who aren't very planned. There are times when it is difficult to make plans due to funerals, etc., and I think you know that a way of life where you worry or drag on the future or the past is not desirable.

So why don't you set only big goals, such as “I want to build a family like this” or “I want to live this kind of life,” and then choose a job that will lead you towards that? I don't think it's that blurry.

My name is Kameyama Junshi. Let me share some of my thoughts.

Certainly, if a job [occupation] is what you want to do, there's nothing better than that. But how many people are actually doing what they want to do as their jobs right now? I'm also an English teacher in high school on weekdays, but I wonder if being a high school English teacher was really what I wanted to do “?” Right. My current occupation is the result of searching for my own path from encounters with various people, setting goals for the time being while compromising somewhere as a result, and devoting myself towards them. In my opinion, the basis of work is work done for others, not for myself. Of course, there are people in the world where what they want to do is just their job. However, if it's just for myself, what that person is doing is simply complacency. So is study and work. “The work you do for others or for future descendants is study and work.” That's my idea. In Buddhism, there is a saying “self-interest, immediate altruism.” Work for oneself — self-interest — must remain work for others — altruism. Buddhism is complete only when you don't settle into your own state of enlightenment and start working for others from there.
Instead of searching for what you want to do, ask yourself “what can I do for others?” Why don't you think about it and go job hunting?

Nice to meet you, Mappy.

It looks like they are struggling to set a “goal” as the first condition for employment.

I also understand the opinion that it is important to set goals for 5 or 10 years from now.

However, as Mappie said, there is no change between now and in the past that you can sift through your own occupations and have to take responsibility for them yourself.

What has changed is probably the adverse effects of an increase in options due to an increase in occupations and an increase in the amount of information that can be heard even before academics such as business administration work.

There has been no change since ancient times when the hiring side discards job applicants.

Conversely, there are two main reasons why companies are narrowing the frontier for sifting through job applicants.
There are economic reasons, and the other is the decline in the morals of job applicants.

As the employment ratio increases, academic factors related to employment increase, and the number of big-headed applicants who are only knowledgeable increases.
When only knowledge becomes abundant, the number of employees claiming their rights without being able to work increases.
The hurdles will be raised in order to avoid human resources who claim rights above their abilities.
As the hurdles get higher, the employment ratio increases, and the number of studies for that purpose increases.

Many of today's academics focus on the two characters of success, so it's easy to focus on large companies or globally.

However, as you know, the ratio of small to medium enterprises in Japan is over 99.7%.
Among them, about 20% are globally expanding companies.
In other words, companies that are roughly unrelated to advanced academia account for 80% of the total.

Because of their work, I often talk to small, medium, and micro managers, but what they all say is about the decline in morals among new graduate employees and part-time workers.

As a reality, companies are already calling for a decline in the quality of human resources that cannot be compensated by quantity.

On the corporate side,
There is an actual situation where “employees who don't follow their hometown even after entering their hometown = unusable employees” are actually struggling rather than “employees who don't set goals = employees who don't see motivation.”

There is nothing better than setting goals and being desired, but it may also be important to set goals that meet corporate needs.

In the old days, I often heard the phrase “be prepared to bury bones.”

There's no need to think that far, but it seems that we are becoming a world where “motivation” is needed rather than goals.

Anyway, the important thing is to earn living expenses and become independent.
It would be enough to get a job commensurate with your abilities.
What you learned in graduate school, and what you did normally every day, may actually be your skill that no one else has.
If studying seriously is your only special skill, it's a good idea to take the civil service exam.

There is a world you can only understand after working.
There are also qualifications that I never even heard names until I got a job.
There are also cases where housewives who have started part-time jobs take more and more qualifications and eventually become independent and manage their own offices.
The encounter is strange, isn't it?