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The Passion of the Career
Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
In the late ‘70s and throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s, career advisers and coaches made decent livings plotting career paths for clients. Young professionals wanted the fastest route to the top, and career consultants happily designed it for them.
When corporate America offered secure jobs--and meant it--career paths had real meaning. But even in the best of times, the concept behind the career path needs to be overhauled. Whether we change jobs or careers, most of us will alter our career courses several times throughout our lives. Typically, changes are unplanned.
We define ourselves by what we do for a living. Our careers reflect innate abilities, goals, creativity, attitudes toward others and a host of other mysterious variables. In the skewed path to fulfillment, it’s human destiny to taste many jobs and experiment with new careers before we settle on something that we are passionate about. The best we can strive for is finding something we love doing early on so we can devote the rest of our lives to excelling at it. In the workplace of today, however, that’s no small feat.
Natural Inclination to dabble and learn
Job and career changes reflect not only the times but, more importantly, a natural inclination to dabble and learn.
John Agno, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based career coach, discovered that first-hand. …
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