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My career path definitely didn't go the way that I thought it would. When I went to college, I thought I wanted to be a lawyer. I had no idea where I would end up. You definitely don't have to have a perfect path.
I had this exact conversation with a director and squad of IT people. I asked “Who the hell aspires to become a supply chain analyst?” The truth is that in high school you only know about chocolate, vanilla and strawberry ice cream. But when you graduate there’s over 31 flavours. And we get career advice from teachers and high school counsellors? They never left the school system!
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So true!
Not even close.
I subscribe to Dwight Eisenhower’s dictum: Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. The world changes around you. Just look at the way that technology has changed in the last “x” years (where “x” is any number between 1 and 50) and imagine what you thought your career path you have been if you’d started “x” years ago. How much of those changes would you have considered possible back then? Of course you would have had a plan - and that plan would likely have been outdated within a year or three. But because you “had” a plan, you also had a mental process in place that would have made it easier to adapt when the world around you “did” change. And the process - not the specific plan - was what triggered your path.
I couldn't afford college so I had to go through unconventional means and still dont have a bachelor's degree. I've been in the STEM field for over 20 years.
I never wanted to be in Tool and Die. My father is the lead instructor at one of the local colleges and I’ve been around it all my life, but I never wanted to feel like I was “living in his shadow” if you will. Everyone always makes assumptions and expectations that you can never live up to. Thankfully, I’ve done just about everything I can to live up to be my own person in this industry though. I came in to the T&D world out of necessity, though. When COVID hit, I was working through a temp agency and they refused to have me work anywhere. I didn’t have any degrees besides a high school diploma either at the time, so I didn’t have enough credibility, let alone experience, for anyone to hire me. My wife and I were living in a house with 2 children on a $400 unemployment check each week. Eventually, that money ran out and I was out of options, so I went to college and got my degree.