You are not special

Embrace the challenges of your career journey with humility, understanding the importance of practical decisions and managing your path strategically. Explore why joy is key and how to navigate expectations to turn potential into reality in your professional life. Take control and find opportunities that match your skills in the ever-evolving job market.

• Career
• Success
• Strategy
• Job Market
• Professional Development

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1. You are not special Approaching your career with the humility success demands by Chude Jideonwo

2. Everyone is special I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made Psalm 139: 14

3. We want (or are expected) to achieve this

4. But what happens to most of us is this

5. How do we get from expectations and potential to reality?

6. First things to note On your career journey, you won t be happy everyday There are no shortcuts

7. From happiness to joy: Why do we need Joy? Pew Research 24% of Millennials considered themselves responsible 27% of Millennials considered their generation self-reliant 17% considered themselves moral 29% considered themselves compassionate

8. Dont follow your passion Like marriage, work is not based on love or passion. It is a series of practical decisions (career growth, etc) Money matters. Don t romanticize poverty.

9. The art of the suck-up Have a spirit of service. "As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive Genesis 50:20

10. Take charge of your career Management is for everybody. Manage down and up . Your career doesn t belong to your supervisor, or Human Resources. It belongs to you.

11. Finding a job Every day, there are vacancies available for those with the right skills. In South Africa, there is a gap of between 20,000 and 70,000 people in ICT. The National Integrated Infrastructure Master Plan 17,000 engineers and technicians needed in the power sector 300,000 in the ICT sector 1,000,000 in the transport sector

12. Finding a job The waitress who became a self-taught digital marketer A basic competency gap: PAs, etc. Dignity in all labour. Peer pressure, like hope, is not a career building strategy

13. The one-company (wo)man There is always a place for those who can help others build wide ranging visions Don t change jobs for the sake of it. Jacob worked for Laban for years and became very powerful

14. Final thoughts Take ownership wherever you are. The cult of entrepreneurship . Don t give in to blackmail and fear about whether to be an employee or to start a business. Just take common sense steps.

15. Recommended reading The 7 habits of highly effective people by Jim Collins Talent is overrated by Geoffrey Colvin How I went from underemployed waitress to the top 1% of millennials in 6 months - https://medium.com/keep- learning-keep-growing/how-i-went-from-underemployed- waitress-to-the-top-1-of-millennials-in-3-months- 4680dc1d7891#.cg72lib82

16. THANKYOU