A few days ago, I had my first interview about my Multi-Me book on the ‘Off the Fence with Purpose’ podcast hosted by PR industry veterans Jim Walsh and Ellen Gunning. The conversation got me thinking about what our three careers had in common. Each had left employment for self-employment and had interesting, varied careers, never afraid to try something new. We talked about our mutual ambition, curiosity, and ‘growth mindset’, which is your confidence in your ability to learn and grow.
The Multi-Me book's goal is to ‘Multiply Your Potential’, which requires growth and a change in mindset for most people. If you are reading this, my guess is you are not held back by a ‘fixed mindset’ and you are ready to explore ideas on how to multiply your potential.
In the Multi-Me newsletter, I explore some of the ideas from the book. This week I want to continue the chat about growth in terms of career moves, both big and small. A concept I call the ‘Career Mega Moves’. As you may notice, I’m naming or ‘branding’ some of the ideas in the books, as inspired by Russell Brunson.
To think more strategically about your career, you need to be aware of all the possibilities to grow your career, not just the traditional options. The Multi-Me book covers this subject in detail in Phase #1 Direction which you can read later.
In your career, you will make some career-defining moves, so plan them strategically.
The Multi-Me Model is flexible for all career stages: Career Launcher, Career Changer, Career Multiplier, and Career Exiter, helping you plan your career from start to finish. At the beginning, you seek a job or a career, and later you may want a change or more income streams as a Multiplier. At what stage will you consider your Career Exit?
1. Career Launcher
As a Career Launcher, you are in the early stages of your career, perhaps a student or graduate. You may have some skills, knowledge, qualifications, or connections to get you started. This is the first move to kick off your career and it happens just once.
In my case, I was a graduate in marketing from arguably the best business university in Ireland. However, with no experience, launching my career required finding a job in sales and marketing and picking an attractive sector, in my case it was technology.
2. Career Changer
As a Career Changer, your career is up and running, but you fancy a change. You might like to change roles, sectors, or career direction. This is the second big move in your career, and this phase can be repeated many times.
During my career, the pattern of changing marketing jobs for better jobs, continued all the while gaining experience, skills, connections, and confidence.
3. Career Multiplier
A Career Multiplier has more than one career initiative on the go, for example, a side hustler. Notably, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently predicted that 50% of workers will have multiple incomes by 2035. This phase can happen at any time and can be repeated.
My next big career move to become a ‘Career Multiplier’ was when I decided to create my own business. I de-risked my move away from employment by creating a side hustle, which ultimately became a business called Connector.
4. Career Exiter
A Career Exiter is the last career phase, it can include a retirement but is not limited to it. For those in business, an ‘exit strategy’ is a well-recognised term for your ultimate goal with the business. Is the goal to sell it, or share it with others? Many businesses simply stop operating and very few are ultimately sold.
This idea for exiting your career is quite novel but makes a lot of sense as more people create more ownable assets during their careers. If you have a Personal Brand, a Personal Business, and other assets, there may be a move to pass these assets to others before you quit working altogether.
With my career, I have already exited a business, so I like to think I will have some assets to share or sell when I decide I’ve worked enough for one lifetime. These could include domain names, brands, information products, intellectual property, books, tools, databases, and knowledgebases etc.
I’ll write about the ‘Career Exit Strategy’ in more detail in the coming weeks, as I need to make my exit now. ;-)
Don’t just think about your future. Design it.
I hope this summary shows you that there’s not just one mega move, but four areas of opportunity, or Career Mega Move stages where you can multiply your options and consequently your lifetime earnings. It all starts with being open-minded and having a growth mindset.
At what stage are you with your career? If you are like me and contemplating more moves, what’s on your mind? If you would like to run a Career Design workshop packed full of engagement and gamification, get in touch.
As a Career Designer, I can have a no-obligation discovery call with you if you grab a slot here - calendly.com/conorlyn_ch
Yours,
Conor
Song of the Week
Here’s this week’s Song of the Week to inspire you to get moving! As a bonus for reading this far, here are two classics on this week’s theme.
If you read this collection of newsletters chronologically, you can be forgiven for thinking they are not in sequence, incomplete, and quite random. As the book ideas are being tested in public, some of the core ideas are still not mentioned yet while they are tested with a smaller group.
Stay tuned as I have a series of posts coming up that will start to show the bigger picture.
Thanks Ree Gee, let me know if you would like to chat about some of my newsletters 8-)
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