As we are exploring these squiggly careers, how can we possibly prepare for new careers that don’t exist yet? We can always be operating at three levels of expertise: Experts, learners, and explorers.
You may be an expert at your current job or have mastered a skill that you can perform almost without thinking. It may be interesting still or it may be too easy and you need more of a challenge. Perhaps you have picked up new responsibilities or hobbies because they sounded interesting or precisely because they presented a challenge. In these areas you are a learner. You’re somewhere in between the novice and expert stages and there are always new mistakes to make and new things to learn. The third level is where you are an explorer. Something has begun to pique your interest or perhaps you have even begun to dabble in this area.
Most often, our interests guide all three of these levels. We start gathering knowledge, skills, and abilities as we go and quite often before we realize it, we are quite good at something we began quite casually. The trick is to notice where the areas you are learning and the areas you are exploring might provide opportunities for new careers or volunteer involvements.
Puzzle Pieces Coaching 