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career agency: the unspoken weapon for unconventional careerists

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Career Agency

Over a year ago, I did something that raised quite a few eyebrows: I quit my “prestigious” job as a tenure-track Economics lecturer to pursue a more creative path in the world of digital education and media. Over a year into this transition, one thing I've learned is that the hardest part of an unconventional career usually isn't the day-to-day work - it's figuring out how to grow without a predefined path. Success in unconventional careers requires an enormous amount of self-direction. You need to be both the employee and the manager, both the worker and the career counselor. I've…

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