To Get the Job of Your Dreams, Stop Dreaming

“I want to be out of this job tomorrow” is a statement I’ve heard all too often as a career coach. We’re bombarded every day by the idea of overnight transformation, instant career gratification. The media loves the A to Z candidate — you know, the guy who left his job as an accountant on a Friday and started work as a zookeeper on the Monday. We’re fuelled by stories of people who suddenly made it, who unexpectedly broke through. We see only the slightly shocked expression on the face of the emerging star, and even if we’re told that it took a decade of rejection before they hit top billing, the story we want to hear is the great entrepreneurial narrative — that career dreams can come true. Read the rest here.

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