{"id":10499,"date":"2019-08-01T01:20:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T09:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/?page_id=10499"},"modified":"2022-08-09T01:44:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T09:44:02","slug":"the-best-career-articles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/the-best-career-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Career Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 5 Best Career Articles<\/h2>\n

I’ve written a lot about your career, but if you’re looking to get started, here are my best five essays on the topic:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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  1. If You Want to Be an Author Don’t Start Writing (and Other Strangely Useful Career Advice)<\/a> Understanding how your career actually works, not just doing what feels good, is the first step to mastering it.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. What Do You Want to Do With Your Life<\/a> An older and popular article about trying to decide where to go in your career.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. The Interview Method: Why Our Assumptions About Success are Often Wrong<\/a> and why you need to test those assumptions to figure out what actually works.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Fantasizing About Retirement? Here’s How to Build a Career You Won’t Want to Quit<\/a> Many of us dream of escaping, but work isn’t going away, so you ought to make it something great instead.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. You Need to Negotiate Your Lifestyle<\/a> Bosses, clients and colleagues aren’t just going to give you the life you dream of, you need to negotiate what you want.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    In addition to my free articles on career topics, I teach a course, along with author Cal Newport, on building rare and valuable skills to improve your career. This popular course offers limited sessions, but if you’d like to sign-up to find out about our next one<\/p>\n

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