Advice

Careers, Communications, and Getting People Off Of Your Back

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You're doing a job search or career change (or both), and you're working hard at it.  You may be sending out resumes like crazy, or networking, or going to class, or all of these and more.  You're doing a lot to advance your career, and you know it.

Unfortunately it seems other people don't know it, and they won't get off your back.  They want to know what you're doing in your job search, they want to know how you're doing, they want to know whats up.  You may feel you spend more time being bothered by friends, family, and so on than you do interviewing or studying.

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Have A Career Emergency Plan

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I don't like the idea of plan B.

I'm the kind of person that has come to realize that it's better to take time making a good plan A, and revising it occasionally, than it is to have a bunch of plans distracting you.  If you have too many plans, then you won't focus enough on them and may give up easy since you "always have a Plan B."

However, though I believe in this approach of "Plan A first", I do think that there's one thing your career does need: a Career Emergency plan.

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Oh, The Places That Will Kill You

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You're considering relocation like so many people do.  You've got a lot of research to do on ideal cities, states, provinces, countries, and what have you.  You're busy understanding the economics of areas, job opportunities, cultural benefits . . . and then as you do your research you find a very hard truth about your plans to move elsewhere.

Relocation may well take you to a place in the world that will outright kill you.

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