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A Guide for Deciding When to Stop Climbing the Corporate Ladder
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A Guide for Deciding When to Stop Climbing the Corporate Ladder

A 5-Step Framework for a Fulfilling Career

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Rikki Carmichael
Dec 14, 2024
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This week, I wrote a quick note on Threads about how it’s okay to NOT want to grow your career. Well, it went viral.

I’m sharing that it went viral not as a sign of clout but as an interesting data point that made my ears perk up.

As the like, share, and repost count skyrocketed, I was asking myself -

“Do people really not know that promotion isn’t the only way to be successful?”

And then I flashed back to 2018. I was ambitiously pursuing a career in Product Management. Rapid ascent to leadership seemed like the only form of success; failure was anything that did not involve that journey upward.

And then it happened. I made it. I landed a job at a Microsoft subsidiary.

But as the months dragged on, I found myself in an unfamiliar position. I was very, very miserable with my choice. I had prioritized all the wrong things for myself and had to climb out of the hole I had dug.

Fast forward six years, and I’ve never been happier with my career. And I want to share with you how I got here.

It was by design, not by accident.

A 5-Step framework for a fulfilling career.

You need to change your mindset.

We’ve all been fed images of success that usually involve a big job title and a lot of money. But that’s not the only definition of success. And more importantly, it doesn’t have to be your definition of success.

I firmly believe you don’t have to:

  • Keep climbing the corporate ladder to be successful in your career.

  • Growth doesn’t only mean promotion.

  • Being a manager isn’t the only way to lead.

Shifting from an up-or-out mindset is key.

Let me show you how to do it:

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