{"id":29393,"date":"2016-10-18T11:44:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T15:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=29393"},"modified":"2016-10-18T11:44:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T15:44:12","slug":"planning-for-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2016\/10\/18\/planning-for-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning for Uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I didn't plan to have ice cream today. But sometimes uncertainty can be a good thing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nWhen I signed up for the Career Centre\u2019s Planning Your Career workshop, I was ready to plan. And planning I did. I plotted out my career goals for the next three years with the help of a nifty linear diagram. My plan even had a pretty good end goal: landing my dream job after university.\r\n\r\nThis was all fine and dandy (I\u2019ve been making colourful five year plans for the past ten years), until I remembered an underlying theme of the Planning Your Career workshop: it\u2019s almost impossible to see the end goal of your career, since a lot of jobs are found through chance. In other words, plans are a good way to explore your career options and help develop your goals, but they don\u2019t factor in all the unpredictable elements that go along with actually landing a job.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThis ideology belongs to the theory of planned happenstance<\/a>: that finding a career is not a \u201clogical and linear\u201d process, as we were taught in high school, but is all about turning chance events into career opportunities. It\u2019s more important to manipulate these unplanned events than to try to force an end goal that might not even be possible under changing economic and job market conditions.\r\n\r\nAs someone who grew up making five year plans and tries as hard as she can to avoid uncertainty, this was horrible news. \u00a0Luckily, at the workshop, we learned five skills for planned happenstance:\r\n