In any day of any week, if you add confusion to what can already be a complicated landscape, you are asking for trouble. So much external noise out there. For me, as a career coach working primarily with college students, I need to be aware of how much their young minds can process. My job is to ask several questions to learn what the pain points are and try and provide some sense of direction and clarity. As they develop in both mind and spirit, I want to be a support mechanism that they can lean into to build a solid career plan. This requires a strategy, some type of action plan and an ability to push it forward to some meaningful destination. I help map it out. Together we partner a blueprint to help make that happen. I nav and they drive.
They all want the same thing – A job or if they can define the difference, a career. The distinction between the two is subtle, but career and job are different. Uncertainty is intimidating. Anxiety can distort what we see, what we feel, and how we feel it. Make no mistake as smart as these young minds are, as hungry as they are, as much as they want success, they still need to overcome a lot to make ‘it’ happen. Fear of the unknown, adulting, trying to project and make a dream a reality is serious stuff for anyone and especially for a student. The more you let confusion get in your way, you set yourself up, perhaps not for failure but certainly, a bumpy road ahead. If you confuse – You lose.
