Defining Your Specialty

A successful exit strategy from kollel requires that you have a good answer to the inevitable question, “So what are you going to do?” A career path is absolutely necessary both for parnossa and for your emotional well-being.

A striking feature of all highly paid careers is that they are a specialty. A specialist doctor can charge 3x more for a visit than an ordinary one. An attorney with a specialty in a certain field will be highly sought after by anyone with that need.

Given the interconnectivity that exists in today’s world, there no longer exists a need for generalists. Why settle for subpar quality from a general practitioner when someone else who specializes in your need is only a plane ride, phone call, or a click away? On the other hand, if you are a specialist, demand for your specialty increases exponentially as the size of the market you can service is almost limitless.

In learning, this is also true. With our overabundance of reference seforim, anyone can find whatever has been said on any particular topic without too much trouble. So how does one excel in learning? By being a specialist in a particular field, one becomes the one who “owns” that topic.

There is something that you can specialize in. Something that only you are uniquely qualified for, that can define who you are and “what you do”. It’s only a matter of discovering what that is. It’s no longer enough to become just an accountant, just a lawyer, just an insurance salesman. Those positions don’t pay enough, they don’t offer stability, and most of all – they are not emotionally rewarding. Choose better for yourself. Discover your inner specialty and become overwhelmingly successful.

Defining Your Specialty

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