Embracing Career Uncertainty - Discovering Unexpected Paths | Career Chat with Mario Hunt

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Embracing uncertainty in your career journey provides room for unexpected growth and opportunities. This episode discusses the importance of flexibility in career goals and personal experiences of navigating unexpected changes, encouraging listeners to appreciate the journey. 

• Importance of knowing you don't need all the answers now 
• Embracing unexpected twists as growth opportunities 
• Avoiding tunnel vision in career planning and goal setting 
• Value of internships for exploring personal interests 
• Discussion on societal pressures impacting career choices 
• Personal experiences shaping career paths and adaptability

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hey, welcome back to the transparent nature podcast.
This is the segment of careerchats bite-sized inspiration.
Today we have Mario with us.
Mario, welcome to the podcast,thank you, yeah.
Hey, we're going to talk aboutthis career quote that we have
today.
It says you don't need to knowall the answers now.

(00:31):
Your career journey will revealthem.
When I think about this quote,I think about my career journey
as it relates to you know mejust not knowing all the answers
, right?
I think what makes it excitingis the fact that I don't know my
next move or my next step.
I may have goals in place, butI think the journey of going

(00:54):
through my career and allowingit to reveal itself is what
makes it really exciting.
So what do you think about thisquote?
I?

Speaker 2 (01:03):
like I like it.
Um again, I think that's prettymuch the same with me and
probably everyone.
There are very few people whoactually have an ideal or plan
of what they're going to do andit goes exactly the way that
they want it to go.
You can plan it.
You can do everything that youthink you're supposed to do, but
there's always a curve ballthrown and, um, you have to move

(01:24):
with the curveball.
My career did not go as I wouldhave liked it to go.
However, I'm super grateful forthe curveball.
Yeah, it made me go into someareas and directions that I
would not have normally havetaken.
I probably would have sat stillin one position at one

(01:46):
institute forever, and the waythat the job market and the way
that you grow is not by stayingin one area.
Now I've seen the growth justfrom going from one institute or
one place, one position, to adifferent position.
It has grown me as anindividual as well as a
professional.
So, yeah, I believeholistically and agree with that

(02:08):
quote you can plan it, you canhave an idea of where you think
you want to go, but there'salways going to be a curve ball.
Just move with it.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, and you know, a lot of people think I need to
know the answers.
I need to know the answers, Ineed to know, you know, plan A
all the way to plan Z and that'sjust not realistic.
But I think you know it's allabout the journey and if you, if
you take that approach, likeyou know the journey, the
journey, I think you'll enjoywhere you are, even if, where

(02:39):
you are, you may want to be, youknow, in a high level role.
But just take the journey andand set those goals, uh, but
really look at it and embracewhere you are in the moment.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, I, um, that's exactly where I am right now.
Um, the younger me was allabout.
I want to do this by this.
By the time I reach this age, Iwant to be here.
Um, now me with a few years, acouple of decades in the game.
It's kind of more so like Iknow where I am now.
If I'm happy where I am now, Ido have an idea of where I think

(03:12):
I'd like to go, but going withthe flow is probably the best
thing that you could do.
Now you have an idea.
Have a plan, have me.
I always got a plan B and C.
So, have a couple of plans or afew plans, but at the same time,
don't be so hard on yourselfand don't push so hard going
into a specific direction untilyou kind of, I guess, lock

(03:37):
yourself against or block out alot of other opportunities that
may be better for you.
That's a good point.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, that may be better for you.
That's a good point.
When you just are rigid in yourgoals and you're just trying to
stay focused on your goals,sometimes you don't realize
other opportunities that may beout there that you haven't even
thought of or even thought thatyou would enjoy doing or working
in, and so no, like you said, Ithink it's important to also be
flexible with your goalsettings as well.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Don't get locked on.
Tunnel vision is basically it.
Don't get locked on tunnelvision.
Don't be so focused on yourgoal until you block out
everything else that may becoming your way, because there
may be greater opportunities.
There may be opportunities ofexperience that you may not have
, opportunities that may helpyou financially, opportunities

(04:25):
that may broaden your horizons,to make you think, hmm, I don't
think I want to go that routeanymore.
I think I want to go this route,so don't yeah, don't get locked
on tunnel vision, to the factthat you block out other
opportunities that may actuallyget you to where you want to go
or change your perspective andyou realize that that's actually
not what I want to do.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
This is what I want to do.
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Yeah, and you know, I thinkabout like how young folks

(05:30):
getting into college Young folks, yeah, young folks and you know
a lot of parents put things ontheir child like you know, you
need to be a doctor, you need tobe a lawyer, maybe that's what
they did, right.
And then they realize thatthey're going to school.
They realize, like this is notwhat I want to do, a lawyer,
maybe that's what they did Right.
Um, and then they realize thatthey're going to school.
They realize, like this is notwhat I want to do, right,
experiences, and a lot of timesthey get that degree, that

(05:51):
bachelor's degree, just fortheir parents.
Yeah, but uh, they realize likethis is not what I want to do.
So I really encourage peoplelike, if you really don't know
what you want to do, or you doknow what you want to do really,
you know, get those internshipexperiences and that's going to
really help you to navigate,like, hmm, do I really want to

(06:13):
do this or not?
But I also hear a lot of peopleand know a lot of people who
may start in one career fieldand they end up in a totally
different career field.
I hear it it's all the time,right, and so you know when I
think about this quote.
You don't have to know all theanswers.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
You don't.
And when I met you you talkedabout you had an idea of where
you wanted to go.
You wanted to be in HR.
Yeah, I did as I told you onone of our previous I think the
very first episode that I satwith you.
That was not my plan.
I didn't even know what HR was.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
I had no idea.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
I went to school.
Well, initially I was in musicyoung, I was in theater, I was
an athlete, I did all of thosethings in school and then, once
it was time to kind of get outin the workforce, it was like I
still kind of wanted to work inmusic and was still working in
music.
But I, you know, I had in mymind from what everyone was
saying you need to go to school,you need to get a degree, you

(07:14):
need to get an education.
And so I initially went toschool.
I wanted to go to school foraccounting and I started in
accounting and ended upventuring over and switching my
major to a business degree.
Once I received the opportunityto go work in HR at Northwest,
and so it was not planned.
I had no idea anything, I knewnothing about HR and I ended up

(07:36):
in that field and to still be inthat field.
It's great to have experiencedall the things that I
experienced, but again, like yousaid, have experienced all the
things that I experienced, butagain, like you said, majority,
most people don't have an ideaof exactly what they want to do.
But you did and you, you, youhave actually grown into hr yeah
, and you know, this is just thebeginning, right?

Speaker 1 (07:55):
I still have a whole lot of years ahead of me, um,
but who knows young people?
Yeah, because you're one ofthose who knows, like, I may not
stay in HR forever, but youknow I'm keeping my eyes open,
you know Well, y'all.
That's it for Career Chat fortoday.
Continue to tune in with us andwe'll see you on the other side

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You.