CREATING A CAREER GPS
What are you doing? This is pointless and boring! Why aren't you doing something you love?
If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. From parents to doctors, to attorneys and teachers, the desire for a career roadmap to answer these questions is on everyone’s minds.
That’s because roadmaps make things easier. They’re linear, two-dimensional, static and already finished products before you get them. The territory is completely charted.You know what we are working toward? A career GPS. Here are 5 reasons why.
What to avoid. A career GPS will allow you to test out different scenarios before you get on the road, alerting you to traffic and accidents that might get in your way at different times of day or night.
Positioning. A career GPS will account for where you are now and how you might have gotten there. It tracks your most visited destinations and routes (a bit scary, but still useful) and suggests alternate paths.
Recalculation. A career GPS allows for detours, construction, mistakes and different decisions. Will ask you questions about how you want to travel and tell you what’s going on in the bigger picture.
Estimates. A career GPS will tell you how long it will take to get to your destination in real time. It’s fully present, allowing you the choice to make informed decisions about where you’re going, when and why.
Interaction. A career GPS gives you audible feedback in terms you understand. For instance, different languages, accents, voices and forms of measurement.
But even a career GPS can’t give you passion or fulfillment. And that’s the whole point. A career GPS would be a great tool because it promises only to help you use what’s around you to make more informed decisions as you go. It’s about the journey. (And the journey can be your destination.)
Looking forward to the journey, and to letting it be beautiful