Do You Know How Far Your Career Can Take You?

Do you know how far your career can take you? The desire to stay  with the same company for life is becoming rare and rare by the day, and this create fear in the minds of some people because they are not sure of what is likely going to them in their place of work in the nearest future. 

If you’re working in a place but don’t know what is likely going to happen to you concerning your work, then maybe it’s time for you to take time out, sit back, and have a rethink of how to plan your life.

It’s common at times for you to find that you’ve got into your job through a series of coincidences and each one of them is taking you a little further away from where you were aiming to go when you started. There is simply a huge gap between the jobs that people get and the jobs they wanted. 

No-one aspires to work at a paper company, but someone’s got to do it. This may happen beyond your widest imagination, but notwithstanding, you are there right now. Once you’ve been there a few years, you suddenly realize that your only options are to either move sideways into a similar job somewhere else, or move upwards in the hierarchy and become a manager.

So what exactly do you want to do. The answer is to finally prepare answers to yourself that most elusive of questions: what do you want to be doing five years from now? Ten? Twenty? If the answer isn’t “what I’m doing now” or “I want to be a high-level manager”, then what you need is drastic action. You need to sit tight to plan how to get to where you aspire to be in the next five years.

What you might not realize, though, is that forging out a career path isn’t as difficult as you might think. If you can free yourself from the day-to-day struggle to survive by living below your means for a year or so and accumulating some savings, you suddenly have some time to get where you want to be in the job market. Whatever your ambition is, the chances are that there’s an entry-level job going somewhere, or a community of enthusiastic amateurs.

If it’s really what you’ve wanted to do all your life, then it should be as simple as getting started and getting noticed. And if it doesn’t work out, then you’ve always got the other job to fall back on. Whether you succeed or fail, it’s always better to try, and it’s not as hard to do as you think.

Take the plunge today by deciding on what you want to do. Do everything within your means to work towards getting to your dream. And, have a strong believe in yourself that you can do it. Think about if you don’t want to leave but you are fired at the end of the day, what are you going to do?

Plan. Plan. And, Plan.

Plan today, for a better tomorrow.

Thank you.