"I don't have a plan. If you look too far out in the future, you waste your time." says one of the authors. I agree with the author and would say the same. I don’t have a plan either. I have my own wishes for the future, but planning has always been one of my weaknesses. And personally for me, planning is good but good adaptation is better. If you plan something and you follow it, it’s good but don’t miss novelties, that is to say, new changes.
“The whole world of business is now in a constant state of agile development.” Whether you want or not you have to develop yourself constantly and be updated. Otherwise you will be useless both to yourself and to the business world.
This article shows how different people embraced different changes and at various jobs. The most important is that they all followed innovation and adapted themselves to changes.
I consider myself as a very adaptable person. Otherwise I wouldn’t be in France today. I never planned to be here. I just followed what I had to follow and simply adapted myself to whatever the change was. I don’t know what I will be doing in two years, the only thing I know is that I have multiple competences and I won’t stay in one job. I will follow innovation and accept changes. It’s always been my case, changing career. I used to be a teacher, a surveyor, a salesperson, an interpreter, an assistant, a consultant, a singer, an actor and now receptionist.
“Flexibility of skills leads to flexibility of options. To see what you can't see coming, you've got to embrace larger principles.” That’s absolutely true. You should never stop developing your skills. Don’t take pauses in learning. There are new jobs coming with new opportunities which are yet unknown. We have to prepare ourselves to what we don’t know. Today I also can say "I'm a collection of many things. I'm not one thing” as Raina Kumra, one of the authors of the article would say. And I am so proud of being such.
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