DPC2022: Bugfixing your career

Learn practical strategies to revitalize your career, acknowledging the importance of individualized success, embracing adversity, and recognizing personal goals and fulfillment indicators at this uplifting DPC2022 talk.

Key takeaways
  • Take stock of your career regularly to recognize if it’s still fulfilling or if you’re feeling stuck.
  • Acknowledge that passion is not enough; success is individualized and looks different for each person.
  • Change your perspective to recognize opportunities in difficulties.
  • Embrace adversity by turning it into a learning experience, even when it’s hard to keep going.
  • Recognize when your ego is speaking and challenge limiting beliefs.
  • Make time for a “Monday feeling” check-in to gauge satisfaction with your career and reflect on how to improve it.
  • Pay attention to the “dollar index,” side project count, escape speed, and purpose as indicators for success and fulfillment.
  • Learn from the experience of others, recognizing that failure is a normal part of the process.
  • Use analytics skills to evaluate and improve your career development.
  • Create a learning diary or log to reflect on progress and track the lessons learned.
  • Make career development a continuous process.
  • Develop a growth mindset, viewing failures and setbacks as opportunities to grow and learn.