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Careers don't grow anywhere and they're not handed out like mittens or cupcakes.

Careers are made by each of us. Forged in the flame of your passion to do something interesting and meaningful with your days.

That's why it annoys me when big brand companies call their job section "Careers."

You get a decent career by taking risks and pursuing challenges. Going with the flow gives you a mediocre career – and who wants that?

If decent careers aren't growing on trees for you, you are doing something wrong.

If you've had a decent career for something like a decade, it's largely resumable, and the odds that a failed venture will help accelerate it are better than 50:50.