How can I cover up my study gap and ensure a bright future?

This is the problem we identify with the situation instead of knowing the source of problem.

Alibaba founder Jack Ma is one of the richest people in the world, with a net worth of over $36 billion according to Forbes. But there was a time when he couldn't even get a job at Kentucky Fried Chicken.

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The early rejection taught him an important business lesson: "You have to get used to failure," he says, speaking at the University of Nairobi.

After college, Ma applied for 30 jobs in his home city of Hangzhou, China. He was rejected from every one.

At KFC, 24 people applied for the job, says Ma, and while 23 were hired — he wasn't one of them.

The same thing happened when he tried to be a cop. This time four of five applicants were hired, all except Ma.

Another time Ma lost out on a job to his own blood.

"My cousin and I waited for two hours [in a] long queue to be the waiter for the four star hotel in my city, on a very hot day," he says. "My cousin's score was much lower than mine, [but] he was accepted and I was rejected!"

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Ma was even turned down by Harvard 10 times, he tells Charlie Rose in 2015.

"I told myself someday I should go teach there maybe," he laughs.

Although he can joke about it now, Ma says the continued rejection was painful. But it prepared him for his entrepreneurial future.

"If you can not get used to failure — just like a boxer — if you can't get used to [being] hit, how can you win?" he says to the audience in Nairobi.

The fortitude came in handy when he founded Chinese e-commerce site Alibaba in 1999. In the beginning, Ma heard "no" a lot.

"I remember year 2001, we went to raise some $5 million from venture capitalists in the USA and got rejected," Ma tells Rose. Despite the setback, he didn't stop. "I said we [will] come back raising a little bit more."

Perhaps those VCs regret their decisions. Today, the company has a market cap of about $400 billion. When it went public 2014, it was the largest initial public offering ever.

Ma says he now passes around case studies about failure to colleagues at Alibaba, instead of reinforcing success.

"When you read too many successful stories, people go crazy," he says during his talk in Nairobi. "They think 'I can be successful.'"
But the truth is, says Ma, "When you share a lot of failure stories, you learn."
So till the age of 30 he was nothing but a failure.
So, at the age of 31, Ma started his first internet company called “China Yellow Pages.” The company made around $800,000 in the three years it was in business.

And now the rest is history.
So the problem is not about the success or failure or filling the gap.
If you worry about gap, what will you do if there an other gap.

It is about the journey.
See say for example, you want to be a body builder, what gives you more happiness. Off course, the day you won.
But what about everyday when you wake up to prepare, excercise, eat and work out.

See this is what we are supposed to be in. In the journey, the zone where we are always looking out for something.
Then you will not have time to feel sorrow.
See for example, suddenly imagine you and your best buddies plan to go for 1 month trip. Got that feel.

I know life will be normal after the trip.
But what about the time during the trip.
So coming to your question, you are not enjoying your current journey, so choose a journey what you want.

It's hard to believe because its simple.
But yes, in case you need to make a drastic changem, then do it.
don't worry about failure or consequences.

If it was not Jack Ma, someone else would have been there, done that.
So if its not you, someone else would be there and take that.
So only thing what you can do give your self maximum chances to be there done that.

FAILURE is not a big deal. I mean you are saying like this. what if suddenly after you read this answer, the entire world is nuked. Got it.
Don’t think about the gap. Not being negative but just saying the big picture. Get it.

If you are in this kind of a journey then you will know when to take a gap and gap will not dictate your life. In fact, nothing will bother, neither failure nor success.

You will beyond success & failure.

What are some tips to help me decide my career?

Hope this helps.

Career is just part of life. So first know what you really want in life like money, fame, stability or do social service. So first decide your life goal.

Read below and do the exercise given in the question for 90 days or till you get sure about your choice of career or aim etc.

What should I do with my life when I can’t see a clear goal?

FIRST FIND YOUR LIFE GOAL.

Since you have asked the question, i hope you will listen to the answer and not think this is the answer you were not expecting.

Hope you have time, i would say choose your time. But in case you want time, choose around 90 days.

Go to a career counsellor at his college or even to an outside career counselling centers which are in plenty nowadays.

How to choose your career?

Take an aptitude test, known your strengths and weakness.

Now do the planning:

Why is career planning important?

And most importantly find what your INTEREST lies in.

Also remember every person will have to two-three interests. So always develop two three skills. Even if takes 10 years be on it.

Sooner or later your time will come.

it’s okay if you want to be a sports person but that is no excuse for you to develop a skill in say computers.

Which is more important, love or career? What should I do?

Got your point. In fact, you yourself know which is right.

Anyway let me make it simple for you.

What do you want?
Fail in life and have a good career and well settled with everything at your feet.

Or life of problems but you have a person who still loves you, even if you are begging on the streets.

Love will not change, no matter what happens. Otherwise its not love. Neither you love or nor that person loves you.

Career can give you everything but not love. Imagine, you have everything but not a single person, neither mom, dad, girlfriend, friends, people around you, not a single person whom you can just call up any moment and talk without reason.

Hope you know there are families, who have everything but still father doesn't like mother, brother hates sisters, relatives hate each other. But they don't have any problems like money, comfort, luxury.

Then there are families who are road, but still they have something to look forward to everyday in life. They are ready to do anything for their loved ones.

It's like there is a certain amount of happiness in being sober as well. Like some people don't want to come out of love failure. Like that.

Then there are people who don't care what about others. They will do anything to be happy and even others should feel happy with them. And they it is false but they still feel happy. Usually big bosses, they have achieved so much and feel so happy with their status, that they just impose it on their drivers, kids, social circle.

Honeslty, even they know its false, but they are happy.

So what do you want to lose or what kind of happiness you want?
There is pain and gain in both. Choice is yours.

If you have both, it’s good. Wishing you both.

I know times have changed but remember humans still are made of the same skin, flesh and blood and have the same emotions.
Choose wisely.