The résumé that rhymes

Look at your last three roles. Same boss, different name? Same frustration arriving in month fourteen? A résumé that rhymes is not bad luck — it is a pattern you brought with you from job to job.

Inherited logic

Most career decisions run on logic you didn’t choose: the definition of success you absorbed at seventeen, the risk tolerance your family modeled, the loyalty script from your first employer. You have been executing someone else’s strategy and calling it your career.

From loop to lever

Once you can name the pattern — over-functioning until resentment, hedging until the decision makes itself — you can investigate its root. Then the same energy that kept you stuck starts working for you.

The One Action: Write down your last three job exits. Circle the sentence that appears in all three. That is the pattern.

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