Let's be honest about how you probably manage your career. You don't really have a detailed plan. When you get bored at work or frustrated with your boss, you start casually scrolling through job openings. When a recruiter messages you with a slightly better offer, you jump at it because... why not? It's a familiar cycle of just reacting to the day-to-day pressures and opportunities.

You do this for a few years, and one day you look at your resume and it feels like a random collection of jobs, not a clear story of your growth. Each move made perfect sense at the time, but you start to wonder if they're actually adding up to a future you designed. The crazy part is, you likely spend more time and effort planning a one-week vacation than you do planning your forty-year career. The real danger in this is that you end up just collecting jobs, not building a life's work you can be truly proud of.