Briggs U. on LinkedIn: Careers aren't linear! "You can choose a new path at any age"

But if you think about your career from the perspective of which skills you have developed and where else they might be applicable, you’ll realize that opportunities are near-infinite . Journalists can become investors. Corporate executives can become authors. Even in the case of the most rigid disciplines such as law and medicine, nothing is stopp... See more

I like to think of careers as less like ladders and more like lily pads. In retrospect, some hops might look as if they were on a path, while others might look like a digression. Some might prioritize work, others might prioritize life outside of work. But whatever you hop to next, know you’ll have the chance to hop again. Little in life is permane

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Our career decisions are more reversible than we think

Humans suffer from what psychologists call the end of history illusion. We tend to understand that we’ve undergone significant personal growth and changes in taste to bring us to the present moment, but we discount the fact that we’ll change in the future.

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It’s 2020, nobody believes in one job for life anymore, or even one area of interest. People want to leverage what they already know in order to gain access to jobs where they’ll learn and try new things. For many of the world’s best talent: non-linear is the new black and finding a way to combine passion and paid work with lifelong learning are fa... See more

The seminal change in the business from then to now is that a young person should view the career pyramid differently rather than traditionally. Put the point at the bottom where you are now (at the start of your career) and conceive your future as an expanding opportunity horizon where you can move laterally across the spectrum in search of an eve

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A career choice early in life need not be deemed an error in the light of a change of profession decades later. People change, events change them and their own choices move them to places where they see more of life, differently. These contingencies, accidents, flukes aren’t errors or bugs; however uncertain, they are an infinite source of life’s r

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