Job Search is to ___ as Career Management is to ___ Follow-up

Job Search is to ___ as Career Management is to ___ Follow-up Yesterdays post was my shortest, and perhaps my funnest, post.   I gave a few Job Search is to ___ as Career Management is to ___ examples, and there were about a dozen others who chipped in with their own.   There were a few that just had me laughing, like Mike Murrays: Job search is to dating as career management is to marriage. and Nancy Babyaks: Job Search is to takeout as Career Management is to a well stocked Pantry. I loved all of them however, I think my absolute favorite is Erikas from Qvisory: Job Search is to a Stephen King novel as Career Management is to that great literary classic you’re always meaning to get around to reading. Isnt a job search just freeze-you-in-your-steps scary!   And oh my gosh, that literary classic that we never get around to just like career management!   Priceless, Erika! But I do want to follow-up with one thought and Im honestly surprised that no one called me out on it.   If you read through all of them, including mine, you get the idea that job search is bad, and career management is good.   Or job search is dumb, or a waste of time, etc. and career management is what we should all be doing. It wasnt my intention to insinuate that job search is bad, dumb, useless, etc.   Its simply a component of career management, isnt it? So heres my point, and Ill use my first example to bring it out: Job Search is to sprint as Career Management is to marathon. Is a sprinter better than a marathoner? They both have high-performance shoes. The both eat diets optimized for their training and performance. They both where the right running gear. They both need to drink the right amount of water. They both. You get my point.   They are both athletes, and they both perform to the job.   They have trained specifically for their role.   I doubt a marathoner and sprinter could trade training regimes for a few weeks and still perform like they should.   They are specialists.   Neither one is better, neither is worse. In our CAREER MANAGEMENT, which is what WE have to be in charge of our entire career, we must understand the rules, techniques, tricks, tactics, etc. of the JOB SEARCH. Understanding what it is, how to succeed in it, and what we need to do, and, training for it, will help us so that it is not scary, or bad.   The job search simply a thing that we can master. Thanks a ton for the laughs, this was really fun! Job Search is to ___ as Career Management is to ___ Follow-up Yesterdays post was my shortest, and perhaps my funnest, post.   I gave a few Job Search is to ___ as Career Management is to ___ examples, and there were about a dozen others who chipped in with their own.   There were a few that just had me laughing, like Mike Murrays: Job search is to dating as career management is to marriage. and Nancy Babyaks: Job Search is to takeout as Career Management is to a well stocked Pantry. I loved all of them however, I think my absolute favorite is Erikas from Qvisory: Job Search is to a Stephen King novel as Career Management is to that great literary classic you’re always meaning to get around to reading. Isnt a job search just freeze-you-in-your-steps scary!   And oh my gosh, that literary classic that we never get around to just like career management!   Priceless, Erika! But I do want to follow-up with one thought and Im honestly surprised that no one called me out on it.   If you read through all of them, including mine, you get the idea that job search is bad, and career management is good.   Or job search is dumb, or a waste of time, etc. and career management is what we should all be doing. It wasnt my intention to insinuate that job search is bad, dumb, useless, etc.   Its simply a component of career management, isnt it? So heres my point, and Ill use my first example to bring it out: Job Search is to sprint as Career Management is to marathon. Is a sprinter better than a marathoner? They both have high-performance shoes. The both eat diets optimized for their training and performance. They both where the right running gear. They both need to drink the right amount of water. They both. You get my point.   They are both athletes, and they both perform to the job.   They have trained specifically for their role.   I doubt a marathoner and sprinter could trade training regimes for a few weeks and still perform like they should.   They are specialists.   Neither one is better, neither is worse. In our CAREER MANAGEMENT, which is what WE have to be in charge of our entire career, we must understand the rules, techniques, tricks, tactics, etc. of the JOB SEARCH. Understanding what it is, how to succeed in it, and what we need to do, and, training for it, will help us so that it is not scary, or bad.   The job search simply a thing that we can master. Thanks a ton for the laughs, this was really fun! Job Search is to ___ as Career Management is to ___ Follow-up Yesterdays post was my shortest, and perhaps my funnest, post.   I gave a few Job Search is to ___ as Career Management is to ___ examples, and there were about a dozen others who chipped in with their own.   There were a few that just had me laughing, like Mike Murrays: Job search is to dating as career management is to marriage. and Nancy Babyaks: Job Search is to takeout as Career Management is to a well stocked Pantry. I loved all of them however, I think my absolute favorite is Erikas from Qvisory: Job Search is to a Stephen King novel as Career Management is to that great literary classic you’re always meaning to get around to reading. Isnt a job search just freeze-you-in-your-steps scary!   And oh my gosh, that literary classic that we never get around to just like career management!   Priceless, Erika! But I do want to follow-up with one thought and Im honestly surprised that no one called me out on it.   If you read through all of them, including mine, you get the idea that job search is bad, and career management is good.   Or job search is dumb, or a waste of time, etc. and career management is what we should all be doing. It wasnt my intention to insinuate that job search is bad, dumb, useless, etc.   Its simply a component of career management, isnt it? So heres my point, and Ill use my first example to bring it out: Job Search is to sprint as Career Management is to marathon. Is a sprinter better than a marathoner? They both have high-performance shoes. The both eat diets optimized for their training and performance. They both where the right running gear. They both need to drink the right amount of water. They both. You get my point.   They are both athletes, and they both perform to the job.   They have trained specifically for their role.   I doubt a marathoner and sprinter could trade training regimes for a few weeks and still perform like they should.   They are specialists.   Neither one is better, neither is worse. In our CAREER MANAGEMENT, which is what WE have to be in charge of our entire career, we must understand the rules, techniques, tricks, tactics, etc. of the JOB SEARCH. Understanding what it is, how to succeed in it, and what we need to do, and, training for it, will help us so that it is not scary, or bad.   The job search simply a thing that we can master. Thanks a ton for the laughs, this was really fun!