Planning a career is much like planning your life, in fact, is a major part of planning your life. There is some groundwork to lay, foundations to build, balance and flexibility to remember.

1. What do you want to do with your life? What do you want to be doing? Not what you should be or what you beel obligated to do, but what do YOU want.

2. How can you go about getting it? Further education? Start-up job and experience?

3. What can you do to support your goals? Broaden your knowledge on a subject or field, learn how to speak in public, present yourself, increase your networking...

4. What can you do right now to get started on your chosen path? What will take you a little longer?

5. In what ways can you fit your plans into your current life? In what ways can you change your current life to fit with your plans?

Even if your goal seems far off there are many little ways you can get yourself closer. Flexible planning is just the start.

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