Comments on: Your Career Path: Straight Ahead or Anything Goes? http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/your-career-path-straight-ahead-or-anything-goes-169/ Sports News - Tech Reviews - Entertainment - Life Tips for EveryJoe Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:21 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: June Roundup for Pimp Your Work http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/your-career-path-straight-ahead-or-anything-goes-169/comment-page-1/#comment-347714 June Roundup for Pimp Your Work Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:34:55 +0000 http://www.pimpyourwork.com/your-career-path-straight-ahead-or-anything-goes/#comment-347714 [...] Your career path: straight ahead or anything goes? [...] [...] Your career path: straight ahead or anything goes? [...]

]]> By: Celine http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/your-career-path-straight-ahead-or-anything-goes-169/comment-page-1/#comment-347713 Celine Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:09:53 +0000 http://www.pimpyourwork.com/your-career-path-straight-ahead-or-anything-goes/#comment-347713 You're lucky that you knew what you wanted at such a young age and you're doing it! I'm also fortunate enough to be on the same boat. Thanks for sharing your ideas. I especially liked your comparison of the situation to marriage. :) You’re lucky that you knew what you wanted at such a young age and you’re doing it! I’m also fortunate enough to be on the same boat.

Thanks for sharing your ideas. I especially liked your comparison of the situation to marriage. :)

]]> By: Breanne Potter http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/your-career-path-straight-ahead-or-anything-goes-169/comment-page-1/#comment-347712 Breanne Potter Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:46:11 +0000 http://www.pimpyourwork.com/your-career-path-straight-ahead-or-anything-goes/#comment-347712 It's a bit ironic that the guy who started out in biology and ended up at a bank is scolding someone else for not having a direct career path. I think there's something to be said for trying out different roles and environments and learning what does and doesn't fit. Some people take the "easy" route and stay somewhere just because it's the easy or socially acceptable thing to do. Neither are right or wrong...just choices. I knew exactly what I wanted to do at age 15. And, I'm still doing it! I'm the rare one, though. Very few of my friends were as sure of their career path and as a result, they have had some wonderful, rich life experiences. To each his own... To put this in a different framework, you could have the same discussion about the path to marriage. Dating only one person and getting married vs. playing the field and learning what you need before settling down. It’s a bit ironic that the guy who started out in biology and ended up at a bank is scolding someone else for not having a direct career path.

I think there’s something to be said for trying out different roles and environments and learning what does and doesn’t fit. Some people take the “easy” route and stay somewhere just because it’s the easy or socially acceptable thing to do.

Neither are right or wrong…just choices. I knew exactly what I wanted to do at age 15. And, I’m still doing it! I’m the rare one, though. Very few of my friends were as sure of their career path and as a result, they have had some wonderful, rich life experiences.

To each his own…

To put this in a different framework, you could have the same discussion about the path to marriage. Dating only one person and getting married vs. playing the field and learning what you need before settling down.

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