Career Pivots

When I was young I had my whole career planned out. I didn't expect any deviation from the plan. When I got laid off, early in my career, I was faced with a lot of choices I had to make that I had never thought of before.

I remember, back in the 1900's, getting laid off and having a "gap on your resume" was really bad. It was a bad look. It would be better to get some temporary job to fill that gap than to have a multi-month gap sitting there, proving that no one wanted you for a while.

Things have changed. It seems like there is less shame in losing, or changing, jobs than there was in the olden days. There's less shame in having those gaps between jobs. Perhaps this is because more people are experiencing layoffs and long job searches? Is it because this is being normalized and there's no one left to call it shameful?

The transition is a perfect time to rethink and restrategize. It might be a time to ask some hard questions and challenge the direction you thought you were going.

Check out the post I just wrote where I walk through five different parts of my career pivot... do you relate to any of these?