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People who strive to have a more suitable career typically do the same in
other parts of their life. They tend to customize their taste in food, for example, and
often go out of their way to shop for organic groceries. In the kitchen, they'll teach
themselves how to cook food that approaches the orginality sought by a gourmet chef.
In the kitchen, as in your career, you can follow the prescribed recipe or come up
with something orginal. If you're having problem with 'finding' a career that'll work perfectly for you,
chances are you've had the same type problem in other parts of your life. Selective people
are harder to please. The nature of the everyday work world, especially in large corporations, is the
equivalent of cafeteria food. It comes off as pre-packaged, bland and tasteless.
Another way to approach a career choice is to think more like an designer, rather than a finder. Designers
create new career possibilities, finders pick a job from the shelf of available 'options.'
A possibility
is defined as: "Capable of existing or being true; capable
of happening or being accomplished. Potential." In other
words, a possibility is not found on a list of available "options."
Unlike options, possibilities do not exist until we bring them
into being.
The number of people who are willing to stretch for a really creative, custom-fit
career are rare, maybe ten percent at most. They are career path architects. Rather than
look for something that exists, they set out to design and make something unique.
What does it take to have a custom-fit career? . . .
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