Man, 2020 was a kick in the teeth for a lot of us, right? I was feeling pretty adrift myself as it was winding down. My old gig, well, it just wasn’t cutting it anymore. The whole world felt like it had flipped on its head, and I was just kinda floating in the middle, looking for something to grab onto. Career-wise, I had no clue where I was headed. Absolutely zero.
I remember sitting there, late one night, just scrolling through stuff online. You know, trying to find some kind of direction. I wasn’t really into all that zodiac stuff, never really paid much attention to it. But for some reason, I typed in “Pisces career 2021” into the search bar. My sign, obviously. Just out of pure boredom, curiosity, and maybe a tiny bit of desperation. What was the harm, right? I figured, worst case, I’d get a laugh or something. I just needed something to cling to, even if it was just a silly horoscope.
So, I started digging. I didn’t just read one article; I went deep. I opened like, ten different tabs, bouncing between a bunch of sites – some looked kinda legit, others felt like someone’s grandma wrote them after a few too many glasses of wine. I was gobbling up all these predictions, trying to see if there was any common thread. It was all about “new opportunities,” “following your intuition,” “creative breakthroughs,” and “don’t be afraid of change.” Sounds pretty generic, honestly, but in my state of mind, it felt like a secret message just for me.
I decided, what the heck, let’s treat this like an actual guide for the year. A weird, woo-woo kind of career plan. I actually started a little journal, nothing fancy, just a cheap notebook I found. My “Pisces Career 2021 Experiment” I called it, kinda jokingly. I’d jot down what the horoscopes were generally hinting at for the week or month, and then I’d write down what I was actually doing, what opportunities popped up, and how I felt about them. It was surprisingly grounding, even if I was still skeptical.
My Strange 2021 Career Experiment
The first few weeks of 2021, the horoscopes kept harping on “networking” and “reaching out.” Now, I’m usually not the type to just cold-call people or slide into DMs. But I figured, if this was my weird guide, I should try. I pulled up my old LinkedIn, updated my profile, and started sending out messages to folks I hadn’t talked to in ages, just saying hi, seeing what they were up to. Surprisingly, a couple of old college buddies hit me back. One of them, turns out, was working for a smaller agency that was expanding.
Then came the “creative endeavors” part. Always loved doodling and messing around with design software in my free time, but never thought of it as a serious path. The horoscopes, across the board, were like, “Pisces, embrace your artistic side, it holds the key!” So, I started dedicating an hour every evening to just creating stuff, not for anyone else, just for me. I put some of my digital art pieces on a portfolio site, again, just for the heck of it, thinking no one would ever see it.
Around March, that old college buddy called me up. His agency was looking for someone with a good eye for visuals, someone who could help with concept development and client presentations. He remembered my old art projects from back in the day. He saw my updated LinkedIn and, get this, he even stumbled upon my little portfolio site! He said, “Hey, this is exactly the kind of outside-the-box thinking we need.” It felt unreal. I went in for an interview, not even expecting anything, just doing it for the “experience” as the horoscopes would say.
The whole interview process was pretty chill. They liked my vibe, they liked that I wasn’t just a corporate drone, that I had these creative hobbies. They saw potential in something I’d always brushed off as just a side thing. By April, I had a new job offer. It was in a totally different sector than I’d ever imagined, much more creative, more flexible. It felt like I’d actually jumped onto a completely new path, just like those goofy horoscopes kept hinting at.
- Updated my social profiles – LinkedIn, everything.
- Reached out to old contacts, some I hadn’t spoken to in years.
- Spent time on my creative hobbies, building a little portfolio.
- Kept that little journal, tracking predictions vs. reality.
I kept that journal going for the rest of the year, just out of habit. There were other little things too – “unexpected financial gains” right when I needed to fix my car, “resolving old conflicts” around the time I actually patched things up with an estranged family member. It was uncanny, or maybe it was just confirmation bias on my part, connecting dots that weren’t really there. But either way, it pushed me to take action, to be more open to possibilities.
By the end of 2021, I was in a completely different place, both professionally and personally, than where I started. That whole crazy experiment, diving headfirst into those Pisces career horoscopes, it wasn’t about the predictions being 100% accurate. It was about giving myself permission to look for signs, to try things I wouldn’t normally, to be brave enough to step into the “unknown” that those horoscopes kept talking about. It gave me a framework, a nudge, to actually go out and make my future path, instead of just waiting for it to happen. It became less about what the stars said, and more about what I chose to do when presented with a new way of looking at things.
