Do you know which fits your lifestyle? by Danielle Schmidt, dms Careers.
Mike has worked 10 years in a large corporation. He got his degree in Finance at a top university and Mike has had 4 promotions at his current company. He is making mid six figures and has grown throughout his career. He lives alone with his dog in a beautiful home with a fantastic view.
Jon has three jobs, a wife and three children. He works at a hardware store 4 days a week, has his own lawn care business on the weekends and has a small internet business selling his art pieces. He works 45 hours a week and makes enough money to support his family and have fun vacations. His wife has a traditional job with benefits.
Sophie makes a comfortable living as an executive coach. Her job out of college was a Junior High French teacher. After a move she waited tables, something she did throughout college. After some networking, Sophie became a retail buyer, made another move and found a 24 year satisfying career in staffing and recruitment. Due to a job loss, Sophie decided to pursue her dream of working on her own and from home. It is important to to learn and love her work.
Mike took the more traditional approach to is career path by starting with one company and continue to climb the corporate ladder. Jon and Marcy took non-traditional approaches, the portfolio career and the zig-zag career respectively.
Here are a few examples of Traditional or Non-Traditional paths:
Traditional Career approaches:
Lateral career-keep the same type of job, such as an Executive Assistant and may move from company to company a few times
Upward mobile career- stay with a company and move up the ladder through promotions
Stable career-Same position in the same company for most of your life
Non-Traditional
Portfolio career- a few jobs or income sources which may have similar connections
Zig-zag career-having several different careers throughout your life
Full-time temporary or part-time work
Ultimately it depends on what fits your lifestyle, attention span,values, talents and motivators. Success is only decide by you and luckily we have many definitions of success.
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