Response to the Cheshire Cat: Every path you explore takes you one step closer to the right solution
Mr. Cat: You are absolutely right that if you don’t care where you want to get to, then you’ll get somewhere if you only walk long enough. But maybe caring isn’t the same as knowing exactly.
In my experience, the path to reaching career goals is not always direct and sometimes the end goal adjusts to what happens along the way. For example, a friend of mine wanted to be a brain surgeon when she was in high school. By the time she got to college and enrolled in the pre-med biology program, brain surgery wasn’t so compelling. While she was in college, she serendipitously moved into the school’s Forensic Science program – a new program that was just being accredited – and found herself being mentored by the Department Head, a Texas Ranger who was one of the developers of the program. In her senior year, a friend sent her an application for an internship at the Health Department’s infectious disease laboratory in Boston, which she applied for and got. She now heads that lab and has been happily and successfully employed there for a number of years. Turns out, she loves that kind of lab work!
Not many of us who have “perfect” resumes – the right jobs, at the right companies, in the right progression, and the right timing between promotions. More often, we’ve taken some twists and turns and looking back we often recognize our successes were in part because of the journey we took in getting there. Few people have had careers with more with zigs and zags than me. Along with that came Monday morning quarterbacking, too – if only I’d been smarter, savvier, or made different decisions, I’d be richer, more famous, and even happier.
I’ve found in evolving my career and in growing my business, constant evolution prevails. Finding resources, listening to them, researching information – and the unavoidable time consuming and sometimes expensive “wrong turns” – has moved them to the next step and the next, each contributing to what needs to be done. Yet, I’m a person who really likes defined objectives and closure, which assures that I will care. I’m still working on being OK with not knowing.
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