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3. Every successful career is built
on solid career planning
and preparation beforehand.

4. Chartering a well-defined career
path is a must to be able to direct
your time, effort and money
towards achieving the right goals
and progressing towards
the right direction.

5. Without a clearly defined path,
you will likely wander around
mindlessly digging into whatever
books you can read, attending
whatever workshops you can
find online…

6. …and whatever job positions
you are offered which ultimately
culminate in years of your life
spent on working for something
that does not fully satisfy
your passion.

7. DETERMINE WHAT CAREER
YOU WANT

8. Before building a path, you need
to know what you're building
it for.

9. Making career choices is not
the easiest, but it's definitely
one of the most important life
decisions you'll be making.

10. Ask yourself what your true passion is:
 Is it in finance or business?
 Engineering?
 Web development?
 Writing?

11. Regardless of what you decide on,
be sure it's something you actually
want to do for the long run.
Your reasons for pursuing
the profession should go beyond
the short-term merits of a good
paycheck or job stability.

12. MAKE IT A REGULAR EVENT

13. Just like how your visits to the eye
doctor and dentist are an annual
event, your career path building
should also be scheduled for regular
checkups and adjustments.

14. You don't want to do it too often
since most career decisions do not
materialize over the span of a few
weeks or even a few months thus
frequently checking up on your career
progress will simply lead to inaccurate
data and waste of resources.

15. Instead, find a day or two within
the span of a year where you
can objectively look at the progress
you've made, where you should
be more aggressive and where
you should perhaps back off a little.

16. BE OPEN TO CHANGES

17. While you've already mapped out
a particular path that leads
to your long-term professional goals,
don't think of it as a linear trajectory.

18. Instead, be open to new situations
and changes that happen
while you're taking the journey.

19. Be open to taking shortcuts
or different roads as long
as it is congruent to the big picture.

20. For example, if you are looking
to be a very adept full-stack software
developer, you don't have to contain
your opportunities and activities
to a linear 4-year software
engineering curriculum.

21. You can always enroll in intensive
boot camps and self-study your way
to individual concepts that mesh
together later on.

22. BE OBSERVANT OF WHAT
YOU DO OUTSIDE WORK

23. It might seem peculiar to examine
activities unrelated to your work but,
in order to progress continuously into
your respective industry, you will need
to manage your time wisely.

24. Activities and hobbies that offer
no help in terms of knowledge
or skill should be forgone
for more relevant activities.

25. This does not mean you shouldn't
have fun but to limit your leisurely
endeavors to one or two hours
per week.

26. A large percentage of society
spends their lifetime not having
any clearly defined direction.

27. Be bold and wise enough to use
the four tips mentioned above
in order to avoid commonplace
mistakes made by the majority
of people continually updating
their career path.

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