Are Career Questions Puzzles or Mysteries?

When I work with people who are exploring new career ideas, I get a common request. It goes something like this: “I’ve spent my career doing XYZ, and I’d like to figure out how to leverage my skills and experience in my next role; but I’d also love to know if there’s something I should be doing that I’ve never even considered that might be an even better fit for me.”

This is an alluring idea – that there’s some career idea out there that you simply haven’t encountered or thought of yet that could solve all your complicated feelings about work.

I understand this sentiment deeply, and while I want to be able to provide people with brilliant ideas out of left field that dissolve career angst, the truth is the real revolutionary ideas are frequently the most familiar. They’re the ideas you’ve considered, likely for a long time, and either shut down, ignored, or pushed off for one reason or another.

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