Monkey Bars

Worth Reading – If You Feel Behind in Your Career, Read This

If I could only pull one line from this excellent piece that summed up my own career, it would be this:

Nonlinear Paths Are the New Normal

https://thejobhopper.substack.com/p/if-you-feel-behind-in-your-career

The idea that you will start your career after college, work hard, and move up the career ladder is a complete fiction. That is not normal by any means. If you find yourself in your 30s or 40s switching jobs and not climbing the ladder the way you thought you would, welcome to the club. What you’ve been experiencing is normal. There’s no ladder, it’s the freaking monkey bars out here.

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