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My story: Types of careers

My story: Types of careers

From the course: Planning Your Career and Your Life

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My story: Types of careers

- Now I want to tell you a bit about my career. Now, I'm not important in all this, but I want to show you that I have tried most of these options, and this is how I know about them. So just for background, I want to tell you about what's happened to me. I didn't deliberately try all these things. My career has been pretty random, but I think most people's careers are pretty random. And so my hope with this course is that this is going to help you to avoid the mistakes I've made and to plan a bit more to target where you want to go so you can go straight there rather than going the roundabout route that it's taken me to find the best thing for me to do. I wanted to be a vet, and I also thought about being an architect, but I found that there were things that wouldn't be quite right for me in both of those careers. I found that I could do maths, for some reason, so I ended up doing engineering. My first plan was to go…

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