when your job isn't helping your career goals: tactics to get on the right track
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When Your Job Isn’t Helping Your Career
Goals
Tac$cs to get on the right track.
Let me preface this by saying I really love my current job. Don’t fire me, Warren. This isn’t about you
guys.
Okay. Here we go.
We all take jobs just to pay the bills...
According to Forbes, 52.3% of Americans are unhappy at
work
Whether you’re paying your way through school and can’t work two jobs, be a full Jme student and take
an internship..
Or you just graduated and need to scramble to get something before
your loans are out of grace.
Working a job that doesn’t benefit your future endeavors sucks.
You feel like you’re stuck.
Or moving backwards.
Here are some Jps to help you get where you want to be.
Give Yourself ResponsibiliJes
Set Goals and Manage Your
Time Consider Freelance
You’re not actually stuck. Stop acJng like
it.
Give Yourself ResponsibiliJes
Working as a barista?
But want to be in business?
Come up with some new markeJng/
business-‐y tacJcs for the coffee shop.
And pitch them to your manager.
This will improve your worth as an employee.
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And give you something to add to your résumé other than “great at
foaming milk.”
…Though foaming milk might be a huge advantage in some offices.
People are coffee fiends.
Set Goals and Manage Your Time
So you want to be an award winning photographer.
But you’re stuck sharpening pencils and making copies
Bad news:
You don’t have Jme to
become an award winning photographer.
Good news:
You have Jme to take 10 pictures
a week…
…And submit one into a compeJJon a month.
Turning your old goal into incremental goals will help make your lack of free Jme more manageable.
Make a Jmeline with mini goals.
Consider Freelance
Working more jobs than you have Jme
for is hard.
But if you really want it…Ge_ng paid for it is great.
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Start with some freelancing projects on the side.
This can be part of your incremental goals.
Before you know it, you might have enough work to fill up a full Jme job.
Look at other opJons.
Just because your current job was your only opJon when you took it doesn’t mean it’s your only opJon
now.
Consider: High paying internships…
…Other jobs that you might now be more qualified for…
…..or Grad school. There are even fully funded programs and grant
opportuniJes for doing valuable work out there.
Or you could become a teaching assistant in your job.
Now get going.