The Next 10 Days — A Guided Career Exploration Workbook
Published by Force For Good Studio, the creator of this resource.
You know your work. Other people know you’re good at it. You’re less sure you want to keep doing it in its present form.
There may be parts you still value. There are also bills, colleagues, responsibilities, and a reasonable wish to know more before changing direction.
The Next 10 Days is a guided career exploration workbook with an online companion and optional ChatGPT learning prompts. Developed by Thomi Sechehaye at Force For Good Studio, it helps readers examine their situation, describe capabilities through examples, investigate possibilities, and learn from manageable actions.
The ten steps can be completed at a pace that fits the investigation. A useful conversation or experiment may take longer to arrange than the title suggests.
Who the workbook is for
The process is intended for experienced professionals and creative people considering what to do next with their working lives.
You might be exploring a different role, independent work, an earlier interest, or a change within your current position.
You may also be unsure whether the problem is the work itself, its conditions, or a shift in what matters to you.
You can begin with that uncertainty.
Give the career question some detail
“I want something different” can contain several questions.
Which activities would you like more time for? Which conditions have become difficult to sustain? What have you learned to do that could be useful elsewhere? What would another direction involve on an ordinary Tuesday?
The workbook helps you investigate these questions before turning a possible direction into a commitment.
It also makes room for a capability you have developed but would prefer to use less.
Try a fifteen-minute career experiment plan
Choose one possibility that interests you.
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Name a specific activity within it.
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Write what you are assuming about doing that activity.
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Choose a small way to observe or try it.
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Decide what you will record and when you will review it.
Here is a fictional example.
I’m interested in moving toward mentoring.
I’m assuming I would enjoy helping someone develop an idea over several conversations.
I will arrange two short mentoring conversations through an appropriate professional group.
After each, I will note the preparation involved, what interested me, what felt difficult, and whether I want another experience.
Two conversations provide an initial observation. Questions about paid work, repeated demand, training, and suitable settings would still need investigation.
The ten-step learning process
The workbook begins with your current situation and what needs protecting. It examines actual work experiences, conditions, competing concerns, capabilities, priorities, and possible changes.
The later steps turn a possibility into an investigation, review what happened, and establish a feasible next move.
The method runs throughout the material.
Write → question → act → observe → update.
You record an account, examine it, do something that can add information, and return to what you learned.
The online companion and learning prompts
The companion provides another way to move through the steps and keep your reflections together. It supports returning to the process and developing a personal summary of observations, unknowns, experiments, and possible next moves.
Each step includes three optional ChatGPT learning prompts.
Begin with your own observations. Use the prompts to examine your account, identify questions, and consider what to investigate. Check consequential information with suitable sources before relying on it.
The PDF exercises can also be completed independently.
What to do with an experiment
Compare what you expected with what you observed.
Perhaps the activity interested you, but the setting made it difficult. Perhaps preparation took more time than you imagined. Perhaps you want another experience before drawing a conclusion.
Record what the experiment leaves unanswered. Then choose a next step proportionate to what you learned and what you can currently manage.
That might involve another test, a conversation, a change within existing work, or time to prepare for a larger move.
What the package includes
The package includes printable and fillable workbook editions, guidance for getting started, and access instructions for the online companion.
You can choose a working format and use the other materials when helpful.
The resource provides structure for exploration. The practical possibilities still depend on access, income, qualifications, responsibilities, and the opportunities available.
Explore before committing
If you want to investigate a career question through reflection and real-world experience, The Next 10 Days gives that exploration a sequence you can follow and revisit.
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