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Why it’s time to rethink our career milestones

stylist’s editorial director lisa smosarski shares her career wisdom

Once, work milestones were linked to climbing the career ladder – becoming a manager and hitting a certain pay grade – which explains why, at the age of 28, I challenged myself to secure three editorships before I turned 30. I wanted to climb more rungs of the ladder, so I took magazine, my third editorial role, three months before my 30th birthday. But I hadn’t considered the optics of hopping around so much, and I never stopped to think what I might learn if I’d have stayed longer, so it is no accident that when I moved to , 

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