Is career a smooth ride?
- Look at the rear view mirror or side view mirrors
- Try to take a decision either slow down or zoom past the pitfall
Usual career pitfalls
- Too many job switches
- Too many slag years in one company
- Irrelevant career paths selected
- Non committed and non focused Job on hand
Speed up or slow down Solutions
- Understand the pitfalls
- Look side ways [Peers] for the support
- Look the paths that you have crossed [All the difficulties and goals achieved]
- Try to take the decision to speed up or slow down
As any other roads that leads you to home or office has pitfalls, [A big pothole in the mid of the roads] the career inroads also has pitfalls.What people do when they see pitfalls on roads?They do the following stepsNote :- In both the above scenarios the driver of the vehicle need to accept the consequences of the bumpy ride.As we progress in our career, we are on a drive to destination. [Destination selected by passion or fashion like designations/popularity]. In this road to excellence, we can learn from our mistakes or others as well. This purely depends on the openness with which we explore this journey called career.Being in a connected world we can lookout for various solutions or alternative routes to the destination as well.Usually we do have our own career pitfalls like the followingAs the saying goes "Rolling stones gathers no mass" but understand that these rolling stones do gather momentum while rolling down. There is no speedup or slow down to be done for each career pitfalls.Understand that there is no "One size fits all" solution for all the career pitfalls, but in-such case scenarios its the passion that drives your vehicle towards the destination.If you have tried something similar or are already thinking about more details about career pitfalls, do share your experiences.
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