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What I Want v.s. What I am Capable of

Lots of People send me LinkedIn messages requesting for any employment opportunity in the company I work. Mostly, I follow the standard procedures and help them as far as it is possible. Sometimes, I receive a strange request like "Can I get a job which I want"? When I was evaluating the notion of 'what I want' and 'what I am capable of', there came a thought about the mentioned phrases. First, What I want is related to the desire which reflects the wishes of individual for themselves. Sometimes such view are inculcated   by others who always praise without reason. For example, saying that you have a great potential to a person who has no knowledge and experience of a particular field results in raising the false hopes. However, people are more judgmental and accurate in assessing others but they judge as per their own criteria and environment (not as per job requirement). Keeping such situations in mind, the image of self should be very clear when y