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| Where and how to cut your losses Half the skill in getting ahead on the career front is knowing when to move on. In everyone's life there comes a moment when they should make the break - the world is full of has-beens who, perhaps, just didn't have the courage to take a chance when that chance came. It pays to constantly reassess where you stand. A good stock question to ask yourself is "Where am I going to be, this time next year, if I stay in the same job?" Each career has a different kind of time-scale. The sales scene moves fast - you tend to make your money in the early years, then move on to management before you are too old and too tired to continue with the foot-in-the-door technique and the patter. The same thing goes, to a certain extent, for advertising. But other careers move at a different pace - to become head curator in a museum, for instance, or head librarian, may take years. |