Tips, articles, videos, books on career planning?
I know consulting isn’t a long term career option for me, but I have no 1, 3, 5 nor 10 year plan/idea.
Did you join consulting with a timeframe/plan?

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Short term plans rarely work .
Let’s say you join at 23 from grad school and have a goal to make manager by 27 , senior manager by 30 and Partner by 35 . And for some reason you don’t make manager till you are 28 or 29 . Most people who set those goals panic at that point and lose patience .

Instead if you set a longer range goal like I want to make partner by 35 and keep evaluating every 3 years if you are on track - you probably will make enough course corrections and get there in good time

Careers are not linear . Short term promotions may or may not happen in the time we want . But you can speed up and slow down as needed if you have a long term objective and still make it .

I just used a random example and making partner is not the best goal for everyone obviously

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Check out “Designing Your Life”, it helped me a lot

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For thinking about it, I like the startup of you by Reid Hoffman

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