Have A Career Emergency Plan

I don't like the idea of plan B.

I'm the kind of person that has come to realize that it's better to take time making a good plan A, and revising it occasionally, than it is to have a bunch of plans distracting you.  If you have too many plans, then you won't focus enough on them and may give up easy since you "always have a Plan B."

However, though I believe in this approach of "Plan A first", I do think that there's one thing your career does need: a Career Emergency plan.

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Oh, The Places That Will Kill You

You're considering relocation like so many people do.  You've got a lot of research to do on ideal cities, states, provinces, countries, and what have you.  You're busy understanding the economics of areas, job opportunities, cultural benefits . . . and then as you do your research you find a very hard truth about your plans to move elsewhere.

Relocation may well take you to a place in the world that will outright kill you.

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