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Career Growth Musings
Typically, I try to cycle through the books I’m reading in groups of threes — business/professional, fun, and personal growth. I just finished a Rob Bell book called “How to Be Here” which was a little too fluffy for me; felt more like a Donald Miller ‘million miles’ retread without the depth and amusing stories.
I’m currently going through Radical Candor by Kim Scott and in the first couple of chapters something immediately stuck out to me about types of people and which one I am. It’s about what she calls a Rock Star vs a SuperStar. Rock stars are solid but not all about climbing the corporate ladder etc. Instead they want to stay with the job where they’re at and get better at it. Superstars want to keep learning more and more and gain more authority etc at work.
My career trajectory/label looks something like this in my own self-rating:
I’ve often felt guilty or like there was something wrong with me the past few years/since leaving teaching basically that I wasn’t all about becoming a manager and that kind of thing, but just wanted to get better at my craft. This year I wrote a personal development plan and on the Coursera courses am ahead of schedule — I’ll finish Data…
