Hi, I'm Sarah.

And I'm Helen.

And this is the Squiggly Careers podcast.

We're a weekly show to help you navigate the ups and downs of your squiggly career.

And we share lots of practical ideas for action and tools to try out that we hope leave you as well as us with a little bit more confidence, clarity and control. And control is the

topic of the day. Oh yeah, I hadn't made that connection until now, which is bad, isn't it?

That's why there's two of us to join the dots where someone doesn't. But I think we've talked

about doing this topic, how to take your control of your career for a while and I think

we've avoided it. I remember we've had conversations and kind of gone, oh, can you really take control

in a squiggly career? And is that a little bit of a false promise when everything's changing? And we are

going to tackle it today because we do think that really approaching your career having a sense of

clarity and feeling like you've got a

sense of control over what you're doing and why you're doing it is important but there is a bit of

a distinction between being able to plan and predict and preempt everything so that isn't what

we're talking about because that is a false promise because we're all going to do jobs that don't

exist yet we're all going to need to develop skills that we're not sure what they are yet so

being able to plan predicting control for that kind of future just isn't possible but what we can do

is help you have a sense of control over your career where you at least feel prepared for the

changes that are going to come and you can be proactive about your development.

And this sort of ability to take control of the uncertainty is very much a skill that Sam

Conniff talked about and he talked about it on the podcast with us and through a lot of his

work on uncertainty experiments.

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