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How You Should Start Planning In Your 20ās
You should start thinking about career paths, family, and overall goals for your life in order to start working towards them.
Your 20ās is the time when people are more willing you give you opportunities.
if you donāt start now when you are seeking for those opportunities people will ask why you didnāt start sooner
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Career Objectives
Many people will often choose a job that isnāt getting them capital.
capital is the experience you gain from a job related to the field you want to enter, or something that will make your resume more solidified.
when you gain Capital you gain self efficacy. Youāre now more sure of yourself because of your past experience.
when facing a choice between a job like a barista that may pay more vs an internship that may not pay as much choose the intership because youāre gaining capital.
capital will get you more experience
more connections and will make it easier for you to move up in that industry.
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Take Advantage Of Your Weak Ties
We often surround ourselves with people who are like us.
this means that many times weāre not learning as much as we could be.
Weak ties are people that are only your acquaintances, and maybe you donāt really know them or hang out with them.
āweak ties promote, and sometimes even force, thoughtful growth and change.ā
weak ties will often have a network that you donāt have access to.
By connecting with a weak tie you now have access to the weak ties network.
Our connections narrow are we grow older and busier. Take advantage of those ties now.
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Start Thinking Of Family
Many people in their 20s think they have their whole life ahead of them. They think Iāll worry about family when Iām 30.
this type of thinking is problematic. Our bodies are not designed to wait too long to have children. As age increases so does the challenges of having kids.
when you start searching for a partner in your 20s youāre able to make better decisions about who your partner is without risking the ability to have children.
when you wait too long its easy to settle for anyone because youāre running out of time to form a family.
āother things may change us be we start and end with familyā
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Itās important to start planning out your life when you have most access to resources and time is on your side.
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