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At this point in your journey towards Building Your Ideal Position, you might have added a few qualifiers. Such as: IMPACT - Is it important that your career have a positive impact? Check out 80,000 hours .  "FEMALE-FRIENDLY" - Looking for an environment which actively promotes female development through career and life changes? This article is for you. REMOTE - The one that comes up the most often—you need flexibility in your work schedule. Let's dive into this more... Contrary to what is still (oddly) popular belief—your physical presence does not correlate to your ability to produce. In the early 2000s there was an upsurge and subsequent decline in companies allowing remote work (remember Yahoo , as an example?). There are other articles written on this (here is one from NBC ), so I am not going to rehash all the details here, rather as a synopsis: 1- Working remote is not a good fit for all workers 2- Not all companies have the structures in place for

Did you get a good list going last week ? You should be well on your way to finding clarity around what your next Ideal Position will be. You might also be thinking- this is all good, but what I really love is being able to cover the cost of living!  As you start to refine your next Ideal Position, use sites like  Salary.com  or  Pay Scale  to see the income range for positions you are targeting. You can also search  Career One Stop , which gathers it's data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  Discovering that your next Ideal Position does not offer a range you can live with in your area? Go back to that list you just built last week , take some keywords from your top five points of interest, and enter them back into a search engine to see what comes up. Often times the same bullet point from a job description is valued differently per industry, location and company. I have taken bullets from an Admin position (a role which itself varies widely in pay- from $30k to upwards of