How to Put Your Career Back on Track While Working From Home
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Here's your money briefing for Thursday, September 9th. I'm J.R. Whalen for The Wall Street Journal. Go ahead, admit it. You thought by now we'd be back in the office enjoying some kind of a return to normal and getting your career back on track. You probably felt that way a year ago, too. But as the road to life back in the office keeps passing mile markers, for some, it's getting harder and harder to put their career into high gear.
We're seeing increasing numbers of people reporting just a feeling of overall blah that applies to, you know, managing their broader career as well as, you know, ginning up that the energy for for one more Zoom call every single day.
So what steps can you take to advance your career from home, all while spending much of the workday in a small box on your computer screen? We'll talk to WSJ careers reporter Catherine Dill about that after the break.
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Why has working from home stalled many people's career progress?
If somebody asked you five years ago, where do you see your career in five years, working from your living room in sweatpants and fighting with a mute button on your computer probably wouldn't have come to mind. But here we are. For many people, working from home for the past year and a half has slowed their career path, but there are ways to put it back in the fast lane. Catherine Dill covers careers in the workplace for the WSJ, and she's been talking with career coaches, CEOs, and other professionals about how workers can stand out. Catherine, thanks for being with us.
My pleasure.
So, Catherine, working from home has been a new way of life, at least their work life for a lot of people since March of last year, with plans for going back to the office popping in and out of the calendar. But what has changed compared to, say, six months or a year ago?
Well, I'd say a lot has changed, but that hasn't necessarily made things any easier. You know, initially, of course, people were in ongoing active crisis at all times. You know, they were adjusting to this new way of working. They were trying to create continuity and stability with everything working against them. And also people were incredibly worried about getting sick, having the people in their lives get sick, or in many cases got sick and were, you know, concerned about recovery, school interruptions, this whole host of things that many people were anticipating would be resolved clearly by now. And so a couple of months ago, particularly as the vaccine rollout gained steam, offices became more confident about their return to office plans.
I think people were really prepping for a much more organized, congruent, you know, we're back at it. You know, we're going back to work in whatever shape that's going to take. Though, of course, people have been working like crazy this entire time. But I think people were anticipating a little bit more shared certainty right about now that the Delta variant has made things consistently uncertain again.
So, you know, Catherine, it's no secret that most of us have conducted our work lives over Zoom for much of the past 18 months.
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