u/Vonyan-Mihye

Before my layoff I could give you a pretty convincing answer about where I wanted to be in three years.

Next role, skills I needed, salary I was aiming for. The usual map.

Then one meeting basically deleted the whole thing.

I'm interviewing again now and people keep asking where I see myself in three or five years. I can still give the answer. I just don't really believe it anymore.

Watching people with great performance reviews, long tenure and carefully planned careers get cut alongside everyone else did something to the way I think about work. I'm not sure whether planning that far ahead is useful or if we're mostly creating a story around something we have much less control over than we admit.

Thoughts?