Career choices can change as you grow, and changing direction is not failure. When clarity is missing, experimentation can reveal what truly fits. Trying a PhD or exploring teaching allows you to observe your own response instead of relying on assumptions, fear, or attachment to past choices. No choice is permanent, and inner growth may require reversing earlier decisions. Ultimately, outside advice can help ask better questions, but the answer must emerge from within.
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Questioner: Charan sparsh Acharya Ji. I'm a student of philosophy. I completed my MPhil two years back. Technically, the next step for me should be to go for a PhD. But I have been connected to your videos for the past one year and three months. And what if, after connecting to you, I do not feel equally driven towards the career choice that I made in the past? Currently, my priority is to get financially independent, but without my PhD also, I can sustain myself. I can work as an educator in a school. But right now, I am confused, what should I really do?
Acharya Prashant: Often, experimentation helps. Experimentation helps when you cannot make up your mind. Then you just probe. Maybe just beginning the process of your PhD will tell you how far your heart allows you to go into it. And if you find that your self is resisting the very idea, even the initial steps, then you'll realize that you'll not be able to stay in the next three or five years there. Equally, you should explore the other side, where you said you could work as an educator in some educational institution. Explore that as well. See whether that conforms to your image of life there.
