Your Career Chariot
A Reflection on Movement, Values, and Direction
📍 On Your Current Road
Are you racing forward, standing still, or moving in a direction you didn't choose?
If your career were a chariot, what's its current state of motion? Take a moment to honestly assess where you are right now.
What does alignment actually mean in your current role?
Where do you feel alignment, and where do you feel the strain?
💡 On Your Values
What are your three core values?
Not what you think should matter, but what actually does.
How well do your team's true values match yours?
Consider how your organization actually operates, not how they say they operate.
🚀 On Your Movement
When was the last time you felt genuinely excited about growth?
What made that moment different? What conditions supported that excitement?
If you removed the word "loyalty," what changes about your view of work?
How does your perspective shift when you no longer feel obligated to stay?
🔄 On Where You Are
What could you expand within your current role in the next 6 months?
Think about skills, relationships, or areas of influence you could grow.
If you couldn't change jobs for 5 years, what would need to change?
What in your current work would need to shift to keep your chariot moving?
When did you last ask about lateral opportunities in your organization?
Cross-functional projects? Skill development? Mentor relationships?
⚡ On Your Courage
What's keeping you from moving forward?
Real constraints, or beliefs about what you should do?
What conversation are you avoiding having with yourself?
The hard questions about your career. Write it down. Sit with it.
🎯 The Essential Question
Am I moving?
Not up. Not necessarily forward. But moving—expanding skills, deepening impact, aligning closer to values, contributing meaningfully to something larger than yourself.
"Your career is not a ladder to climb. It's a road to travel. A chariot to drive. A course across the sky that only you can chart."
Based on "Career Is Not a Ladder—It's a Chariot" essay
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