Chapter 15

Planning Your Career Path

Jim loves being part of a virtual team and thinks he might make a good project manager. When he was in the office, he began taking little assignments that demonstrated his manager had faith in him, but since he’s started working from home, he hasn’t been assigned any extra tasks or asked if he wants to take the lead on team work. He wonders what is going on, and what he should do about it.

Unless you are two weeks from retirement, you have a long work life ahead of you. How you spend it is up to you.

We are all thinking about the future. If you’re ambitious at all, you’re probably thinking of this job as the current step in a long process of moving to ever more challenging and rewarding positions. If you’re ...

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