Moving Away From Your Hometown As a Way to Grow Your Career - The Career Bound Podcast (Ep 6)

Career Bound by Praxis

Looking for a simple way to level up your career quick? Move away from your home town. No, it's not necessarily easy to pick up and relocate. But it can work wonders for your career. Especially if you're from a more rural area with less prevalent economic opportunity. But it's not just about being able to access "better" or higher-paying jobs. Moving away from home also forces independence.

When you move to a new city, you're presented with the opportunity to re-invent yourself, to solidify and challenge existing beliefs, to discard the identity of your youth, and to develop your own identity – anchored in your abilities, your merits, and your own beliefs. This can be a huge challenge! But it's an essential part of the transition from youth to adulthood. The newfound confidence and independence can work wonders for your personal and professional life.

And the best part? You don't have to move away to a new city permanently. Moving from a small town to a big city to gain skills, experience, and build professional credibility offers you an incredibly long-term career and financial "hack". If you can build a strong enough professional reputation for yourself, and a portable skill set, remote work could offer you the opportunity to keep your big-city income and move back to a lower-cost of living area.

All-in-all, it's not about whether you choose to live in rural America, the suburbs, or a city. It's about designing your life and career into what you want it to be. Moving away at the start of your career offers a tremendous advantage to gain more agency over both.

In this episode, Praxis CEO Cameron Sorsby and Praxis COO Mitchell Earl draw on their own experiences moving across the country multiple times, relocating for jobs, relocating because they wanted to, the pros and cons of transient living vs. growing roots, and more. You won't want to miss this episode!