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Why You Need To Have Four Careers

Fahri Karakas
5 min readMay 1, 2020
Photo by Clever Visuals on Unsplash

These days, everyone needs to have at least 4 careers.

You cannot put all your eggs into one basket, one career, one company.

This is too much risk to bear.

You want to be anti-fragile and entrepreneurial.

You are not cut out for just one job.

Your imagination is without boundaries — why do you limit yourself to one job or one career?

You need to design multiple lives and multiple careers for your future.

In this exercise, I want you to imagine and create four different lives and careers.

The idea is that you can incorporate elements of these 4 scenarios into your life and career.

Are you ready?

Let’s start.

1. Your default career and life plan for the next 3 years:

First, you will put down your current life and career plan for the next 3 years. Where will you be working? What are your career and life goals? How will you advance towards your career goals? Where will you live?

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Fahri Karakas
Fahri Karakas

Written by Fahri Karakas

Associate Professor in Business & Leadership at University of East Anglia. Passionate about doodling, imagination, and creativity. Author of Self-Making Studio.

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