How to Make a Career Decision With Limited Information
You rarely have perfect information. Instead of waiting for certainty, identify what you do not know.
Three kinds of unknowns
Critical unknowns: information that could change your decision. Useful unknowns: information that would improve confidence but probably would not change the direction. Low-impact unknowns: details that can be discovered later.
Investigate the critical unknowns first
"I am interested in this career, but I do not know what practitioners actually do." That is testable. Speak with practitioners. Study job descriptions. Try a realistic project.
The standard
Good career decisions do not require perfect certainty. They require enough useful evidence to make a reasonable next decision.
Better career decisions come from combining self-understanding with evidence about real opportunities.
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