Career

Interruptions To Your Career Path

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You've planned out your career course.  You've got an idea of where you are and where you want to go.  Spreadsheets and notes and documents and dog-eared books mark the way to your future.

That planned career course gets interrupted.  You move.  You change jobs.  The economy is ruined by stupid and greedy people.  Your plan is temporarily derailed, perhaps horribly so.

Of course once it's derailed, you get right back on your career plan.  You're no quitter, you won't stop, you won't give up.

Have you ever considered the fact maybe you should?

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How Retirement Made Us Take Jobs We Hate

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We all know the old trope about work – you get a job or series of jobs, save money, perhaps get a pension, and retire to lea a nice life in your 60's.

Of course by now we've seen this is an illusion for too many people, and many solid retirements have become mirages in the Great Recession.  However, more than this illusion, I think that the idea of work-then-retire has been toxic to people's careers for another reason: it led them to take jobs they hate.

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Take Control and Reduce Your Anxiety – With Your Hobbies

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Do you feel out of control in your career – if you even have one anymore?  Do you feel you can't make anything happen?  Do you feel helpless in the job market?

I'm guessing if you're even reading this the answer, at some points in your life, has been "yes."  It's OK, it's normal, most people feel that way at some point in their life.  You may be feeling it now, in the Great Recession.

You've got a solution though, right at your fingers, my fellow progeek.

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