Mentors and Coaches Are the GPS for Your Career
No fun being lost in my car or lost in my career. I’m grateful for guidance from people who share their hard-earned experiences.
What do you wish you had done earlier in your career?
For me, I wish I had gotten more mentors!
With the 90,000 hours spent working in a typical lifetime, a career is often one of our biggest responsibilities in life, and can be one of the most meaningful ways we use our time in this world.
As AI impacts the workplace both positively and negatively, we each will have even more choices to make in our careers. A career can have many twists and turns with multiple paths to areas that we’ve never been to.
I believe it’s smart to get trusted mentors and coaches to guide each of us in our paths through life during times of accelerating change to equip us for a better future.
1. We Need to Learn From the Experiences of Others
Many years ago, I remember the stress of getting lost driving among the complicated freeway interchanges and off-ramps in downtown Oakland, California.
