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The Tour of Duty approach to career

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The Tour of Duty is a modern way to approach your career. Originally published by Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, and a couple of business authors in 2013, the tour of duty is a way to reconcile two opposing ideas:

You own your career [name|], not your boss. I've talked about this in Own your career like an expert. Modern careers are not a straight line, they look like this:

The boss hires you to do a job, gives you a 4 year package, and everyone plays this little rah-rah-rah charade about how jobs are forever. But everyone understands there's a job to be done and that there might not be another after that.

Have a conversation with your boss. What's the goal here? What were you hired to achieve? How will they know this is working? How will you know this is working?