The Four Secrets to Achieving Career Fulfillment

Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.

  Career Development  

I'm going to spare you a long introduction, and list the four secrets to opening the door to career fulfillment right now. In order of importance, they are: 1. marketable (or timely) skill; 2. flexible nature; 3. healthy attitude toward work; and 4. setting time aside for having fun.

(Read on, I guarantee you'll especially like the last one. It might even give you a whole new take on the concept of work…)

Marketable Skill
It could also have read "timely skill." In technology industries especially, you'd better have something to sell or you'll be tattooed "redundant." You'll wonder why your job was shipped thousands of miles overseas to Pakistani and Chinese project managers and developers who are a lot hungrier than you are. Despite all the political and economic rhetoric wasted on offshoring, nothing has stopped it.

Face it: Outsourcing and offshoring are facts of working life, and they ain't going away. If you haven't made contingency plans, then you deserve to be laid off.

Flexible Nature

I'm meeting more and more technical people who either are making major career swerves into allied fields or have executed career changes because they couldn't find jobs that paid a living wage. Many are legacy programmers who didn't have the energy or the drive to stay current and learn new technology tricks. For some, the mere …

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