Strategies For Risk Taking in Your Career: Are You a Breaker, Shaker, Maker or Taker?

Every career choice involves some degree of risk, but some careers entail greater risks.

Strategies for risk taking in your career are likely to include decision-making, awareness of possible risk factors and allowances for unanticipated risks.

An article on techrepublic.com, identifies four, basic kinds of risk strategies and asks the question,
"Are you a rule breaker, shaker, maker, or taker? “ suggesting that "Each of these terms reflects a strategy or posture that people or companies take on to define their willingness to take risks in the economy.”

Rule breakers tend to be norm changers in e-commerce. Rule shakers merely shake up traditional norms. Rule makers tend to establish new rules based upon what the rule breakers have previously accomplished and rule takers see what has worked in the past and draw from that to use it in their e-commerce world.

The question about risk strategy in your own career, will involve personal decisions about the kinds of risks you are prepared to take. Your focus will then shift to constructing strategies that will help you achieve goals that you have set.

Individuals are normally responsible for their career choices, although there may be others like parents and teachers who attempt to determine their career potential and influence them. Of course, different career choices have varying degrees of risks. The risk strategy in each situation is unique. A risk strategy based upon a career choice must be predetermined in terms of proactive goals.

Not every individual wants to risk everything in a career choice, although there are those who make the decision to do so. Many individuals choose relatively safe careers for the sake of their families or others.  

No one is ever completely aware of every possible risk in any career choice and thus, new or different strategies may become part of a chosen career. At times, rules have to be broken, or at least shaken up. New rules are often important in e-commerce. A fresh approach can be a beneficial risk strategy for everyone.

There are no hard and fast rules for risk taking strategies in your career, or that of anyone else. The decision making process continually needs to be expanded in relation to career choices. As a decision maker in your chosen career, you should have some idea about what strategy for risk taking is likely to prove most beneficial for you. You may need to try different strategies, if one does not prove effective.

High risk-takers make new discoveries and as a result, often tend to have higher income levels. Low risk takers may feel safer, but generally have lower income levels.

The futures of others may be contingent upon the decisions and risk taking strategies of those making career choices, including you.