Rejecting the career ladder for a more fulfilling journey

The career river concept offers a liberating lens for your professional life

What if, instead of viewing our professional lives as a race to the top, we viewed them as an essential component of a thriving ecosystem, one whose twists and turns are crucial parts of a larger journey?

The career river is a concept I came up with just after lockdown, in a popular, caffeine-fueled thread I wrote when my kids went back to school. I’d be…