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💡 Job Search Tip: A squiggly career may be the answer to career progression

✝ Devotional: Patience

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Job Search Tip 💡

Workplace uncertainty.

That’s has never been truer than today. With uncertain workplaces and job markets, your next role may also feel uncertain.

What does that mean then to my career? To “climbing the ladder”?

The answer may be – a squiggly career.

That’s a term I was introduced to over the last year. Unknowingly I have often had a squiggly career. A career where the next role wasn’t linear. It wasn’t the traditional next step.

As job seekers, either internally or externally, career growth (and career development) will often happen thinking outside the “corporate ladder”. 

As Sarah and Helen from Amazing If (the Squiggly Careers people) put it, squiggly careers can be full of opportunities and full of challenges. It takes a different set of skills to navigate a squiggly career.

In this 1 min intro video to What is a squiggly career, Helen shares 5 key things you need to think about when it comes to having a squiggly career.

We thought their research and conversation is very interesting as the workplace and the skills needed to thrive today are changing rapidly. Workplace development has a new face. If you find the topic interesting, go on to check out their How to succeed in a squiggly career video to learn more, and spend some time viewing some of their other stories and career skills shorts.

Your next role may not be the logical next step you had always envisioned – but may be the right next step.

How will you handle your next career move?

Weekly Devotional 🙏🏼

Patience

Source: YouVersion; Logos by Faithlife, Lexham Press

You, too, must be patient. Take courage, for the coming of the Lord is near. — James 5:8

Waiting is something all of us do in life. And while some people like to claim that waiting is a great learning experience, in reality, it feels more like a mental and emotional torture chamber.

If you can’t tell, I dislike waiting. I’ve never been good at it. I’ve always liked to get things done as soon as possible and at a time convenient to my schedule. In my impatience, what I fail to realize is that the fourth fruit of the Spirit is patience (Gal 5:22). Christians are not called to be impatient people. Technically, the more we allow the Spirit to be active in our lives, the more patient we should become.

Over the years, I’ve grasped that life doesn’t revolve around me. Time does not click in parallel to my heart. And what I think, what I’m impatient about, will never be more important than what God already knows. Never in all of history has anyone rushed ahead of God’s plan and experienced an outcome that was better than what God had in store. From time to time it might seem like things turn out well when we plow ahead full-throttle, but whatever reward we find will definitely be empty, shallow, and short-lived in comparison to the thing that God had originally mapped out for us.

Don’t expect anything truly valuable to come out of a speedy process. I’m not saying it can’t happen—but realistically, it won’t. In fact, Scripture promotes this (James 5:7–11).

Life is a waiting room, and patience is key for appreciating the experience. Don’t be in a rush to move forward when God might want you right where you’re standing. Waiting rooms are only temporary. The benefit of patiently following God’s plan for your life is eternal.

Challenge:

Pay attention this week to moments you feel impatience surfacing. Memorize Proverbs 21:5 so when this happens you can recite it and pray for God to give you the blessing of patience. 

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