I wouldn't say there isn't a direct path to a successful career. There are people who knew exactly what they wanted to do from a very young age, weren't going to be diverted, and then they just went out and achieved it.
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There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too. So many young people I speak to nowadays think that the only way to get to such a career is by the direct path; but that really only makes sense in certain circumstances.
There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.
A career is a journey. I've been fortunate enough to work and be very successful over three decades, but I haven't achieved nearly what I want to achieve yet.
I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.
The best career advice to give to the young is, 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'
I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that seems to have led me to better places than if I had followed some career trajectory, which I wouldn't even know how to start.
Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old.
The only way to sustain a career is to be as prolific as you can be, and open to opportunities.
I have never, for better or worse, thought about a 'career path' or anything like that.
A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.