I have 10 years of experience in program management and central strategy kind of roles, mostly in start ups. Currently working as a Director in managing central sales division at a fintech firm. At the current juncture I am not sure how will this role eventually pan out in future and if at all this will help me in getting into a specific field (Business or ops or product) 1. Is this normal to have such unclear view of future career path? 2. What do you think I can venture into as a role that is more defined and gives me a clear pathway to a senior leadership role?
Dear Rahul, it’s perfectly normal to be unsure of the future career path during your entire career as there are so many uncertainties and no one can ever account for those. The reason that you don’t hear many people express it is either they get used to it or don’t want to sound unsure of themselves in public:) so just like you are probably dealing with many others aspects of your life that are uncertain think of career also as that. However one can develop certainty in what type of jobs you like / don’t like and use that as a better guide to choose the next time. So if you were to use the Simon Sinek “the golden circle” (if you haven’t seen this pls do), there is the “what” (the job / role) and the “why” (what we enjoy doing / good at). So we can focus on better defining our why through experimentation and reflections which can then be used to decide the uncertain opportunities that come our way.
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