How Do You Choose The Right Career Path When The Economy Is Unstable?
Knowing how to choose the right career path is difficult at the best of times, but much more difficult when the world is in the midst of an economic downturn. With companies which have been household names for years going bust and banks being taken over, it’s hard to know which way to turn. The first step is to realize that a career path today does not resemble what we have come to expect it to be. Most people imagine that they will enter a certain profession or trade and work their way up the ladder, become an expert or set up their own business. They may change jobs or companies several times, possibly moving sideways to a slightly different job within the same industry. But by and large they will expect to end up doing something related to the career they entered when they left school or college. And they will hope to have advanced to a senior position or at least be making a lot more money than when they started out. However, things have changed. The current economic crisis has bro