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t this point, you’ve identified your
personal requirements, you’re clear
on your passions and values, you
Aknow what your natural talents and
abilities are, and you know your per-
sonal style. This next step is to think
about where you are in your life and cre- When love and skill
ate a rough outline or sketch of your life work together, expect a
plan so you can create a career profile masterpiece.
that makes sense given where you are
right now. The stage of your life is the —JOHN RUSKIN
final piece of the puzzle and may affect
which career is the best choice for you
now. In this chapter, you will create your own unique career profile
by pulling all these pieces together to produce the big picture. This
will form the guiding vision for your various careers or business
ventures throughout your life. This is your “core”—the essentially
hardwired parts of you that are likely to remain the same for the
rest of your life. What will change: the different sorts of careers
that are available, the businesses you might choose to start, and
your passions and values as we grow and change. After all, who
knew twenty years ago that we’d need Web designers?

What’s Important to Me Now?

Before you create your career profile, I invite you to think about
your current life and objectives. There are lots of careers to
choose from and possible businesses to start, but where you are
in life right now may be the deciding factor as to why you choose
one line of work over another. This is the question to which the
answer will vary over a lifetime, because what is important to you
now may be very different from what is important to you as years
go by. When you are just graduating from college, you may be
willing and even be excited to take an eighty-hour-a-week job and