A Bricoleur is pragmatic, strategic and self-reflective.
I think these terms succinctly describe a successful modern career. Career today is pragmatic – we can’t be off with the fairies. We need to provide the basic necessities to live and take concrete, tangible action.
A successful career, however, is also strategic. Making careful decisions to position our self for the future.
Finally, without self-reflection, we risk becoming irrelevant with skills no longer required in the market place.
So, 50 years after it was first coined, perhaps being a Bricoleur may come back into vogue.
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Thanks Edwin for the thought provoking post. Not only do we often concern ourselves with irrelevant skills but we often miss the opportunity to go back, look at skills we used a number of years ago and understand and express them in current terms. 15 years ago systems architecture, business analysis and requirements management were only just starting to be articulated as specific skillsets and now they are well accepted. We need to keep ourselves relevant to the market place and give our resumes, profiles and CVs a modern "make over".
Great point Kathy. The art is to determine which of the trends are fads and which are real. Too often we get carried away by the latest term to describe what's been done for decades. We won't always get it right so self reflection is critical to reassessing our skills/direction and change accordingly.
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