Expand your Horizons
When I'm looking for a job, I never keep it restricted to my zip code. Part of this, of course, has to do with the fact that I live in a small community. The job opportunities in my area are limited. Therefore I am an internet job search fanatic, and I look everywhere. If I've met you, and I have decided you are not crazy, chances are I'm going to look for a job in your town so I can sleep onm your couch when I get it. I've looked for jobs in the cities where my friends, uncles, aunts, cousins, ex-roommates, and that random guy who was always in my dorm room live. If I can get there for an interview I'm on it. When I'm looking for a career, I'm not looking for the town, I'm looking for the opportunity. That's what takes me where I need to go.
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Good for you, Amber. Far too many times, people feel the fences of their community are the realm within which their only career options are to be found. Sometimes we need to step outside of those boundaries in order to reach the opportunities and maximize ourselves. The other thing you're doing is constantly increasing the size of your network.
How interesting that you seem to have intuited one of the next set of career exercises. Please expand on this post by talking about your career goal and some alternatives to it, without regard to location. In addition to the type of work you'd like to be doing, also talk about the environment -- fast paced, constant stream of work, slow and steady, predictable, everyday's a toss up, lots of travel, 100% in the office, jaunting about the city to accomplish things and meet with others, focused on one or two projects. This is actually three exercises: (1) career; (2) job content; and (3) job environment. I'm getting you started on one of the exercises for this month and projecting you into what's coming for next month.