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"Connections and Why They Matter"
Most of what happens in our life will spark a connection. Life connects with what has been found in books. Books connect with what happens in life. Use the connections to help you see more clearly. A love of reading and writing is what motivated the creation of this blog. Thank you for coming to the blog.
A job can be just working to earn a paycheck, and your current position in those cases has nothing to do with your last job or your next job.
A career means that each of your jobs, experiences, and training programs is helping you advance in pay or responsibility. The sequence of employment you have built on each other makes the next job more valuable if you use good career planning.
People often want to know if they can easily change jobs in midlife, and the answer is that it is easier to change jobs than to change careers.
The fundamental difference between a job and a career is your attitude about your work. People who want a career are always thinking about their long-term goals.
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, Beethoven composed music, and Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
“Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
