Activity 4.5

What If?

For this reason, we encourage you to map out at least three 5-year professional missions based on three distinct “what if” scenarios by replicating the table below. When you’re considering the possibilities for your “what ifs,” be aspirational. For example, “what if” in one of your scenarios you stay in the city you grew up in, but in another scenario, you move to New York? What if in another scenario, you decided to stay agency side for the next decade? But in a third scenario, you decided to go to a large multi-national company? The system-wide implications of one “what if” may be massive or small, but through “what if “planning you can start to understand life’s trade-offs.

The goal of reflecting on these “what ifs” isn’t intending to paralyze you, but to inspire you. Instead of being crushed when circumstances get in the way of achieving your chosen professional mission, you’ll know that it was only one of many possible scenarios. 

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