Career dilemmas: what would you do?
Ambition is not just about how far you want to go. It is about what you are willing to risk, and who you are willing to leave behind on the way. Two offers, one safe and one wild. A side project that just made its first money. A rival firm offering the role you have chased for years, right when your team needs you. These dilemmas are the forks in the road where careers quietly change direction. Choose what you would really do, then see how other people answered the same question.
Two job offers: one safe and well paid, one risky with a chance to become something big.
Your side project just made its first real money. Going full-time gives it a chance. It also burns your savings.
A rival firm offers you the role you have chased for years. Your current team is mid-crisis and counting on you.
You and a close friend are finalists for the same promotion. Pointing at the gaps in their plan would land.
You have done the bigger job without the title for a year. Review season is months away.
The industry award entry is due. The strongest work has your junior's fingerprints all over it, but your name wins votes.
The one promotion you control has two names on it: the sharper hire, and the one who stayed through the worst years.
You are offered a promotion that would make you the manager of your friends.
You are offered a stretch role. You are about 60 percent ready.
In a negotiation you learn the other side is desperate for a quick deal.
The application for a top program rewards polished self-promotion. Everyone exaggerates a little.
You are very good at something you do not love.
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