Habits and Practices in Your 20s

Your 20s are a powerful decade of your life. During this time you sculpt many of the habits and practices you’ll probably maintain throughout your 30s, 40s, and beyond. However, many 20-somethings don’t give much thought to how their decisions and actions during this decade will ultimately create their future identity. They expect they’ll be able to make changes later, but that assumption usually turns out to be wrong. Career During your 20s you may think of your career path as having many options. You believe you could do many different types of work. That’s technically true. Later in life, however, people have a tendency to wrap their career paths into their identities. They don’t just do a job. They are that job. People in their 40s don’t just sell real estate; they’re realtors. People don’t just do customer service; they’re customer service representatives. People don’t just program; they’re programmers. On multiple occasions I’ve seen people in their 20s fall into a temporary line of work, knowing that it wasn’t something they wanted to do for the rest of their lives. They just took a job to cover their expenses for a while, expecting to get into something more inspired a bit later. Fast forward 20 years though, and they’re still doing that same type of work, except now it’s not just a job. It’s part of their identity. They don’t say, “I’m doing some accounti...
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