This is not going to be some profound post with the top 10 illuminating and hot tips on how to do this. Those posts are all common sense but at times our common sense account gets bankrupt.
Here is the secret sauce, do it. Manage your career. It’s not the details you would read in some blog post it’s simply the act of taking care of your business.
Please, please, please let the last two years be a lesson to you (and really the 3 leading up to the recession) that you HAVE to be actively managing your career path, skill set and business/work relationships.
Please ask for help before the crap hits the fan because by the time you will it is usually too late.
Once you start and then continue to manage your career do NOT stop. When things get good, when the economy is marching along we will get a bit lazy. When you do find yourself slacking off remember 2008-2010 and how it felt. And if you have had a job the whole time, remember the anxiety and uneasiness you felt. Remember your family and friends who lost their jobs. That should motivate you enough.
You might be wondering where this is coming from, a great question.
This is the one year anniversary of my buddy I wrote about in this post, Not Enough Time To Network Becomes A $48,000 Mistake.
He asked me to write this today as he wished he had listened to me.
He wrote to me today how not working during those weeks impacted everything for the rest of the year from where they went, what they did, activities for their kids and then came the holidays and how they were not how he as a father, as a provider had wanted for his family.
He is fortunate to do what he does as he will over a period of time be able to make that up but for most of us we will not be able to.
3 simple words, “Manage your career”.
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