Are you really the architect of your career?

The original titleof this blog post was ‘time is running out for us all’, but at first glance this appearing somewhat morbid, I decided to instead pose the question – are you really the architect of your career?

What follows was prompted by a phone call I had with someone yesterday (let’s call him Rob), which turned out to be extremely thought-provoking. Before getting into the detail of what was said, I’ll first set the scene by taking a step back in time.

In 1994 having graduated from unive...