Multifaceted Career Journey: Finding Your Definition of Success with Rebecca Walter E160
Build Your Brave Career for Women in TechShow Notes
“I had very much been raised with the mindset that the single career was the way that you define success. You pick a job, you stay in that field… [but] I found a bunch of different stuff that I enjoyed. And at one point, in December maybe, you said to me, “Rebecca, you know, you're self-employed now.” And I was like, “Oh, yeah, I guess I am.” - Rebecca Walter
Rebecca Walter joined us to share her brave career story of redefining career goals, career growth, and skill-building phases can be your path toward a more dynamic and rewarding career path as you choose to shift what success means to you.
Rebecca's story includes transitioning from her reliable, long-term career in education into exploring her many skills and goals to arrive at the surprising choice to craft a multifaceted career phase of solopreneurship. She shares her unique experience and process, based on trying and building new skills, exploring her assumptions in decision making, and choosing to develop a new mindset balancing self-permission and real-world constraints.
In her process of growth, she identified her desire for breadth and multi-faceted choices to fulfill her personal and professional goals. We discuss the allure and benefits of part-time contracts and freelancing, social jobs like waitressing, and structures that integrate pauses and vacations that balance personal and professional needs.
Rebecca is a brave role model who has chosen to build fulfillment in variety, flexibility, and value-based career building. Listen in for two fo her brave role models, two humans from very different generations and for very different reasons. Related episodes: Caroline Santinelli - Embrace Your Innate Talent to Return from Burn-Out & Transform Your Career E99 We can do hard things: Dan Levy’s Good News: No One Knows What They’re Doing
Hot topics from this episode: Personal Career Paths: career breadth over depth for a multifaceted career Transition from education to solopreneurship Redefining Success: shifting views on what constitutes success Temporary and part-time jobs and their unexpected rewards
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