Being a career-obsessed engineer wasn't the optimal way to be fulfilled

I was going to poke holes in how this person is simply substituting being career-obsessed with being engineering obsessed but this is like the engineer who looses touch with engineering theory being an approximation of the real world. Life just doesn't work this way. Where's the serendipity? Where's the real crap that happens in life? I don't see any mention of getting married, having children, the cancer diagnosis and years of chemo and fighting for life while still going to work so you can keep your healthcare, the divorce and custody battle with someone you spent half of your life with. Or the good stuff that just happens because you're in the right place at the right time that you never could have planned for. I think better advice would be finding a way to deal with how life throws you curve balls and you need to find a way to keep going. With advice like this you not only have to deal with a curve ball but also come to terms with how you've structured your life isn't going to work.

The stages of life breakdown feels a bit too cookie cutter. Certainly it's a common progression, but it's also possible that choices in your 20s/30s mean that you need to make up for lost career/financial time whilst still maintaining/raising a happy and healthy family. I'm not really criticizing the post/method as it seems like a good thing to do, but cautioning that it may not be easy to just put areas on hold whilst focusing on only a couple of others.

EDIT: I do like that in the "fulfilled engineer" radar chart it's not all 10s, but rather 3-5s mostly. There's a tendency in self-help to suggest you can have it all.

I've received very good feedback on this one, so I decided to share it here too. It's 5 days into the year, but it's never too late to start being intentional with our efforts in our career

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Isn't "Personal growth" an odd one here, since it refers to the other dimensions?