The career path that is truly yours rarely arrives as a neat sequence of steps.
Sometimes there is a proven route. Law, medicine, engineering—clear milestones, predictable outcomes. For a long time, that was enough.
It isn’t anymore.
Most careers now evolve as a series of experiments rather than a linear progression. And even when you make a plan, it often comes without proof.
No one can tell you:
“Do this, then this, then this—and you’ll become the successful version of you.”
Because no one has done your version of it before.
That ambiguity isn’t a flaw.
It is the process.
As Joseph Campbell put it:
“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path.”
So it’s worth asking: Whose path are you on?
