Is your job = to your career?
We asked a lot of questions in season 1 of the EITF project which addressed different stages of people's career. In your first job out of school, the thirst for knowledge, enthusiasm and the inherent need to prove yourself feeds your energy. On the EITF project, this is the reason we spoke about the “ first ” jobs that our experts have had. In more ways than one, the learnings from your first job and first manager usually shape your career going forward. But, there is also a tendency to lose yourself in your first job. The need to build a career beyond that is usually a realization that hits everyone hard at some point, and it’s not easy to do- it’s a lot of extraneous work, and it has to have a lot of motivation behind it. So we figured, we’d ask our experts for advice - “ For someone who wants to work on something outside of their everyday jobs, first, should they? And if they should, where would be a good place to start? ” To our surprise, the answers from our experts led u