Navigating Setbacks

Setbacks in your career can take all kinds of forms – a layoff, a job that wasn’t the right fit, a missed opportunity, or a role that ended before you were ready. Often, you don’t realize it’s a misstep until it’s behind you. And once it is, you’re left to wrestle not only with what happened, but how it feel – and how others might see it.

But these experiences, as painful as they are, can become inflection points. The key is taking responsibility, learning what you can, and building habits or systems to keep you growing in the right direction.

In this part of The Orbit advice for navigating what comes after things don’t go as planned – from career detours and disappointments to second or third or fourth tries – and the lessons that only come from falling down and figuring out how to move forward.