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Map Your Current Career Path
Map Your Current Career Path
If you want a job making money and doing good you have to embrace the notion that you won’t get there in a straight line. Careers today no longer follow linear trajectories that take you from graduation, to internship to employment up the ranks. This exercise is the first of 50 to help you discover your unique path and give you the confidence to get your dream job. By mapping your career path you will see that you are already well on your way.
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Make a list of 25 different milestones, relationships, people, jobs, or experiences that brought you to where you are today.
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Create a map with your milestones. Connect them chronologically, making note of the impact they had on your state of mind at the time. Draw your map on a white board, a large piece of paper or your computer.
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Pick two random points and try to add in five more milestones, people, or experiences that got you from one step to the next.
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Choose a different pen color and note your emotions throughout the map. How did you feel before and after you got your last job? When did you last feel overwhelmed or totally satisfied?
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Review your map. Take note of patterns, industries, themes, and clues that could inform your next step.
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Ask yourself: What do I want to repeat? Do differently? Learn from this? What industries or jobs emerge that may have been hiding in your peripheral vision?
Want to keep thinking about your path? No patterns or potential future directions emerging? Build on this exercise and Write a Creative Nonfiction About Yourself or Imagine 3 Vastly Different Careers
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Map Your Current Career Path
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