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7 things you should never be sorry about in your Career
If you’ve learnt anything throughout 2020 it is that you are not in as much control of your life as you probably thought you were. That’s scary and I’m sure, many of you, like me, have experienced that sense of lessened control.
One area I have seen hundreds of people give up control uncessarily is their career. They get trapped in the culture of a workplace, believe they are not good enough to get a promotion and get overly comfortable in the notion that they are doing all right.
Then COVID comes along and they get furloughed which meant they lost some money or the got laid off because that business sector you thought you’d leave a year ago to go join a more prosperous one, just got shafted by COVID and you’re jobless.
I might be exagerating slighlty here but you get it. If you don’t look after yourself in your career nobody else is. You may think that your manager has your interests in mind but what tends to happen more is that people are putting themselves first. It’s not because they do not care about you. It’s just that they are likely focussed on achieving what they want achieve.
Here are the seven things I believe that you should never be sorry about when you take ownership of you career.
