Personal reinvention is challenging. Thanks for this post! Fortunately, I developed a 'career' in a social justice issue that I feel strongly about. Career, though, is a word I wouldn't necessarily use to describe my professional life. More like leaping over canyons from one project to the next. It's only in the last ten or so years that I feel I'm in the professional role I've always wanted to have. It took some forty years to achieve! Anyway, the best and only advice I give to those who ask about careers and work is to identify what and where you want to be in years from now and work out an itinerary from there to the present. Often, it's all about making the work you want rather than relying upon someone else to engage you to do it.
Personal reinvention is challenging. Thanks for this post! Fortunately, I developed a 'career' in a social justice issue that I feel strongly about. Career, though, is a word I wouldn't necessarily use to describe my professional life. More like leaping over canyons from one project to the next. It's only in the last ten or so years that I feel I'm in the professional role I've always wanted to have. It took some forty years to achieve! Anyway, the best and only advice I give to those who ask about careers and work is to identify what and where you want to be in years from now and work out an itinerary from there to the present. Often, it's all about making the work you want rather than relying upon someone else to engage you to do it.
That is excellent advice! Am going to have a crack at it today! Thank you.
Mine has been to start living off my pension a decade before 'planned'. It's a blast!
What is 'pension'?
Oh dear!