Day one – of course I have to post today, can’t lose my motivation already.
While writing the “bio” for this, I noted that I pretty much stumbled into my now career based on a mutual connection and an entry level job opening. Pure circumstance. When I tried to change things up and go in a different direction, I found it difficult because I only had experience in a very specific category and couldn’t afford a massive pay cut. So here I am wondering – is this how most people end up in the path they’re in?
I’m taking about the overall masses. Not the doctors, or lawyers, or teachers, or mechanics. I mean the business majors who had no specific trajectory, the fashion major who didn’t want to be a designer, the fill in the blank major who just went to college just to get a degree, etc. Did they all end up where they are out of randomness?
Of course, also important to take into account is an unwillingness for companies to take a shot in the dark when it comes to a midlevel employee. Sure I landed my original out of coincidence, and I couldn’t afford to take a pay cut and start over once I was ready for a switch. But companies (especially major companies) seemed unwilling to take a chance on someone who may or may not adapt to an entirely new career path. Especially a company that doesn’t have time to wait for an employee to evolve. Which definitely played a major roll in my first job becoming a career.
But is this like a common thing? Do people just kind of happen into a job and then bam twenty years later they never left? I feel like this has to be a solid majority of people, but am I totally off base there? Who even knows…
Anyway, it’s also partially why I’m back to writing. Because in college I always thought I’d go into a field somehow related to writing, and I couldn’t possibly be further from that now. Whether I stick to it, or anything comes from it? Guess I’ll see.
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