When they ask about your career at a company dinner, laughter comes first

Scenes

• When asked about the future, laughter comes first — The moment his boss asked what he wanted to do next, laughter came before his prepared answer.
• I’m not sure that answer was really mine — Even after everyone nodded, he keeps wondering whether what he just said truly came from his heart.
• I laughed first and said something safe — When his turn came at the company dinner, the main character smiled and said he would keep learning more about his current work.
• The answer you give in public and your own path are different — Your career becomes clearer when you look side by side at your current circumstances and the work you keep reaching for, rather than the one line that sounded good in the moment.
• Don’t choose that one line again. Look for the traces — Try writing down just one thing that kept coming to mind after the company dinner. Traces of your direction remain before any answer does.
• That day’s answer isn’t the whole road — What you said at the company dinner came from that moment. Now we can look together at what remained behind those words.