Career Basics Course: Week 4, Day 16
Small antique glassware from my grandmother -- a hairdresser/entrepreneur of 50+ years

Career Basics Course: Week 4, Day 16

Gerald Doyle Gerald Doyle

Gerald Doyle

Human Centered Design and Innovation: "You know, I believe it's sometimes even good to be ridiculous. Yes, much better. People forgive each other more readily and become more humble, ..." Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

发布日期: 2023年3月20日
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“For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.” — Rudyard Kipling

Map Your Career Path

You are already in the middle of your career path. Even if you've never had a job before, you have learned, had experience, made choices, expressed interests, and here you are deciding where to go next.

To truly understand this require you to spend time looking backward to map how you ended up here. A beginning can often feel like a cold start with zero momentum. ...

Mapping your career path to date will help you identify trends, patters of feelings, and reasons for transitioning out of and into work ...

In his bestselling 1080s career book Transitions, William Bridges breaks down the stages of a transition. There is an end, a period of in-between, and a beginning. Each stage is essential yet rarely considered in a distinct way. ...

  • What were you ending?
  • What were you beginning?
  • What did you have to let go in yourself at these times?
  • What beliefs did you have to change and what external changes followed?
  • Do your transitions always follow a place-based change, or do they follow a change in belief?
  • What did you think you were going to gain in the next stage?
  • What ended up happening.

The arc of your career is part of a broader story.

The Exercise

Begin mapping your career by following these steps:

  1. Make a list of fifteen different milestones, relationships, people, jobs, or experience that brought you to where you are today.
  2. Create a map with your milestones.
  3. Pick two randompoints and try to add five more milestones, pople or experiences - no matter how small -
  4. Choose a different pen color and note your emotions throughout the map. How did you feel before and after you got your last job. When did you last feel overwhelmed or totally satisfied?
  5. Review your map.?Take note of patterns, industries, themes, and clues that could inform your next step.
  6. Ask yourself:?What do I want to repeat? Do differently? Learn from this???What industries or jobs emerge?that may have been hiding in your peripheral vision?

Note: This is either ...

"Taking a step back is the best way to get some perspective on your purpose."

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For me, ...

  • Born/raised in Philadelphia, IL
  • Summers/worked in Wildwood, NJ
  • Lived/studied in Chicago, IL
  • Lived/taught in Usa River, Tanzania
  • Lived/worked in Chicago, IL
  • Lived/worked in Brunei
  • Lived/worked/studied in Boston, MA (fortunate to travel internationally quite extensively)
  • Lived/worked in Hanover, NH (fortunate to travel internationally quite extensively)
  • Lived/worked in Chicago, IL
  • ... what's next

For me, ... most of my career has been spent in higher education -- and exclusively in private colleges/universities; I have been fortunate to work extensively with colleagues at Chicago Public Schools and at Perspectives Charter Schools . Over the last five years, I've been invited to participate in and learn about the EdTech world from dedicated individuals seeking to create better opportunities for young people including Eva Prokop , Amir Badr , Wesley Matthews , Sheree Speakman , Scott Downs , and Jeffrey Moss . Of late, my journey has included an interest in theology and faith-based institutions including at Catholic Theological Union with support from Herbert Quinde , Colleen Kennedy and Christina Zaker .

For me, ... earlier in my career, while at Emerson College , I had the opportunity to meet a favorite musical artist of mine:

  • Meatloaf [I Would Do Anything for Love -- But I Won't Do That] ; in speaking to him about career advice that he would offer to a young person, he offered this. "Folks are always interested in your best hits -- and while that's fun to perform, it can lock you into the past; they're not always asking you about what you're currently working on, or what's new -- and sometimes you stop thinking about what to create that's different or NEW. Advice: Don't let yourself or others lock you into your past. Create new music -- and continue to explore."

For me, ... thinking about what's next and what the next version of my music might be.

A Happy Monday -- and WELCOME to Week 4, Day 16.

Also, as we begin Week 4, we are very pleased to welcome Kathleen O'Brien 欧凯琳 as a contributing respondent to this dialogue and conversation. Kathleen is mission-motivated, people-oriented and a collaborator between and among cultures. As a recent graduate of Catholic Theological Union , we know that you will value and appreciate her reflections as she accompanies us on this journey for individual, mutual, and collective discernment towards abundant and meaningful career, life and learning journeys.

Thanks for accompanying us on this journey. Have a wonderful week ahead.

All the very best to everyone. Much peace.

Gerald and?Al Nunez

P.S. Enjoy the mapping; I will be using some crayons later today!

Al Nunez

University Advancement | Passionate higher education professional who builds relationships with alumni and friends of the university.

1 年

Looking through my career path I realized that there were a number of milestones that were connected with some inspiring people. Like Gerald Doyle my career has mostly been in Higher Education and influenced by some great mentors. When I was a student at Benedictine University I had a job as a tour guide in the Admissions Office and when I was about to graduate the Admissions Director asked if I wanted to join the team. I had not even considered this as a career choice but it has been a decision I have never regretted. In that first job I met my long time friend and mentor John Baworowsky who was a real example of someone in Higher Ed Leadership. We had another opportunity to work at Illinois Institute of Technology where he gave me the opportunity to work with the recruitment of international students. He currently is the Vice President for Enrollment Management at Marquette University. My career has continued in College Recruitment at Roosevelt University and Arizona State University and there have been a number of people who have been influential in my path. Gerald Doyle and I have worked together (see picture) and we continue to learn from each other and appreciate his insight. I suggest that you find your mentors.

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Scott Downs

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For those interested in going deeper into personal and collective mapping practices, please be invited to explore Temenos work, founded by Siraj Sirajuddin and Susan Gibson. Introduced to us by Olaf Lewitz and Christine Neidhardt. For a short introduction to the Temenos practice, see pp 95 and following of our Tri Cosain series book, Resources for Question 1, Inspiration. https://pubhtml5.com/yhtw/sjmz/9Qs_resources_for_Q1/

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Gerald Doyle

Human Centered Design and Innovation: "You know, I believe it's sometimes even good to be ridiculous. Yes, much better. People forgive each other more readily and become more humble, ..." Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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Ben Sacks Congratulations on the promotion to director of sponsorship at Chicago Sky WNBA. Well done.

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Gerald Doyle

Human Centered Design and Innovation: "You know, I believe it's sometimes even good to be ridiculous. Yes, much better. People forgive each other more readily and become more humble, ..." Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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Al Nunez Here's what's in the menu in Chicago for Monday. Roasted portabella mushrooms with asparagus. Baked salmon with rice and fresh broccoli. You and yours?

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Gerald Doyle

Human Centered Design and Innovation: "You know, I believe it's sometimes even good to be ridiculous. Yes, much better. People forgive each other more readily and become more humble, ..." Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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Also, as we begin Week 4, we are very pleased to welcome Kathleen O'Brien 欧凯林 as a contributing respondent to this dialogue and conversation. Kathleen is mission-motivated, people-oriented and a collaborator between and among cultures. As a recent graduate of Catholic Theological Union, we know that you will value and appreciate her reflections as she accompanies us on this journey for individual, mutual, and collective discernment towards abundant and meaningful career, life and learning journeys.

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