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Are you going anywhere in your career? As staying with the same company for life becomes rarer, more and more people aren't sure. Being one of those people could mean that it's time you think things through.

It's all too common to find that you've got into your job through a series of coincidences, each one taking you a little further away from where you were aiming to go when you started. Between the jobs that people get and the jobs they wanted, there's simply a huge gap. No-one aspires to work at a paper company, but someone's got to do it. Moving sideways into a similar job somewhere else and moving upwards and becoming manager are your only options and this is something you realize once you've been there a few years.

So what do you do. The answer is to finally answer to yourself that most elusive of questions: what do you want to be doing five years from now? Ten years from now? Twenty years from now? You need to drastic action if the answer isn't "what I'm doing now" or "I want to be a high-level manager.

What you might not realise, though, is that forging out a career path isn't as difficult as you might think. If you can live below your means for a year and accumulate some savings and free yourself from the day-to-day struggle to survive, then you have the time to get where you want to be in the job market. Regardless of your ambition, there could be a community of enthusiastic amateurs or an entry-level job somewhere that you can try.

If it's really what you've wanted to do all your life, then it should be as simple as getting started and getting noticed. Besides, you've always got the other job to fall back on if it doesn't work out so don't worry. Whether you succeed or fail, it's always better to try, and it's not as hard to do as you think. So why not just take the plunge?