2 Ways to Know If You've Hit Your Career Ceiling
How you feel about your job is obviously an important indication. The other is whether your company encourages you to learn skills that will keep you — and the ...
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A career ceiling is when you get stuck and it can happen a couple of different ways. It can be the 70 percent of Americans who according to Gallup don’t like their jobs but don’t do anything about it. They’ve just kind of accepted that a job is just a job and this is what I do for the rest of my life. We eat at TGI Friday’s, not TGI Monday’s for a reason. The Office was a popular show for a reason. Delbert books sold a lot for a reason because we get stuck. For me that was climbing to the top of a career ladder and maybe that’s something you relate to. I was 32 years old and I worked at AutoTrader and I had a great job but I was a senior content designer and there was no super-duper senior content designer position above that. I had come to the end of that ladder and at 32 ...
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A career ceiling is when you get stuck and it can happen a couple of different ways. It can be the 70 percent of Americans who according to Gallup don’t like their jobs but don’t do anything about it. They’ve just kind of accepted that a job is just a job and this is what I do for the rest of my life. We eat at TGI Friday’s, not TGI Monday’s for a reason. The Office was a popular show for a reason. Delbert books sold a lot for a reason because we get stuck. For me that was climbing to the top of a career ladder and maybe that’s something you relate to. I was 32 years old and I worked at AutoTrader and I had a great job but I was a senior content designer and there was no super-duper senior content designer position above that. I had come to the end of that ladder and at 32 ...
