https://carmabaughman.com/categories/career-on-your-terms/ Recent content in Career On Your Terms on Carma Baughman Hugo en Carma Baughman Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://carmabaughman.com/posts/what-if-your-career-followed-your-life-instead-of-leading-it/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://carmabaughman.com/posts/what-if-your-career-followed-your-life-instead-of-leading-it/ Nobody told me a career could look the way mine did. Once I stopped letting my career lead my life — and started letting my life lead my career — everything changed. https://carmabaughman.com/posts/the-dream-i-talked-myself-out-of-and-what-it-actually-cost/ Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://carmabaughman.com/posts/the-dream-i-talked-myself-out-of-and-what-it-actually-cost/ A single throwaway phrase stopped me from pursuing work I loved for over a decade. Here's how it happened — and what I finally learned from it. https://carmabaughman.com/posts/your-career-was-never-supposed-to-be-a-straight-line/ Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://carmabaughman.com/posts/your-career-was-never-supposed-to-be-a-straight-line/ We're taught to plan our careers as if they're destinations. But the most meaningful careers aren't straight lines — they're journeys that reveal themselves as you go. https://carmabaughman.com/posts/starting-over-isnt-the-end-of-the-story-its-a-new-chapter/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://carmabaughman.com/posts/starting-over-isnt-the-end-of-the-story-its-a-new-chapter/ We tend to think of starting over as something heavy — a setback, a failure. What if we've been looking at it backwards? https://carmabaughman.com/posts/how-to-find-purpose-in-a-job-that-no-longer-fits/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://carmabaughman.com/posts/how-to-find-purpose-in-a-job-that-no-longer-fits/ You don't have to love your job to find something meaningful in it. Here's how to extract value from where you are while you work toward where you're going.