Don’t plan your career
November 12th, 2007 by KenricMy friend sent me this post and said “I wish I had access to this kind of wisdom and advice when I was 17 yrs old.” After reading it, I wish I did also. I’ve discovered many of the things discussed in the post, but not until I was much much older.
Below is an excerpt, I hope you’ll all find it compelling enough to read the whole thing.
“The first rule of career planning: Do not plan your career.
The world is an incredibly complex place and everything is changing all the time. You can’t plan your career because you have no idea what’s going to happen in the future. You have no idea what industries you’ll enter, what companies you’ll work for, what roles you’ll have, where you’ll live, or what you will ultimately contribute to the world. You’ll change, industries will change, the world will change, and you can’t possibly predict any of it.
Trying to plan your career is an exercise in futility that will only serve to frustrate you, and to blind you to the really significant opportunities that life will throw your way.
Career planning = career limiting.
The sooner you come to grips with that, the better”
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I feel like there is a lot of advice that I got when I was 17 that I didn’t follow anyways – but there is some good stuff in that article.
-Chris
By Self Improvement Journal on Nov 16, 2007