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Career roadmap generatorFrom here to there,
with the years marked.

Careers move by visible increments, not by accumulated effort. Nobody is promoted for having worked hard; they are promoted because somebody with authority can point at a thing and say that person did it. The gap between those two facts is where most quietly frustrated careers live.

Free, no sign-up. Worked out in your browser, nothing sent anywhere, and the result imports into EvyOS.

Name where you are and where you are going.

Everything is worked out in this page and saved in this browser only. Nothing is sent anywhere.

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✦ How to use it

Three things that make it work.

1
Be specific about the target

A level, a kind of work, or a named role. "More senior" cannot be planned towards.

2
Set a realistic horizon

Two to four years for a real step. Under a year is a project, not a career move.

3
Do stage one now

Capability takes the longest and everything downstream waits on it.

So a roadmap is not a list of skills to acquire, it is a sequence of things that will exist and that people will have seen. This lays them out across the time you have given it, in the order that actually works: capability first because it is the slowest, then visible delivery, then the people who will be asked about you, then the ask itself.

The last stage is the one people skip. Nobody has ever been promoted by somebody who did not know they wanted it.

✦ The limit

An answer is not a record.

This works something out and then forgets it. It cannot tell you whether the number moved, because it has no memory of the last time you ran it and no idea what you did in between. Every calculator on the internet has that limit, and if it has never bothered you then this one is yours for free for good.

EvyOS is the same structure with the work recorded against it. Send the result across and it becomes real goals, tasks or habits with their dates — then the next answer is computed from what actually happened rather than from what you remember typing.

Questions

Career roadmap generator, answered.

Because careers move on things somebody can point at. Working hard at your current scope repeatedly is how people stay where they are for years while being genuinely excellent — the work has to be at the scope of the role you want, and somebody has to have seen it.
Occasionally, in organisations with rigid bands. Far more often it is what people are told instead of the real answer, and waiting on it is how a two-year gap becomes a five-year one.
Most large steps happen externally, because a new employer prices you on the role you are applying for rather than on their memory of you three years ago. Internal moves are cheaper and slower and depend on a vacancy existing.
Because it is skipped more than any other stage and costs the least. Nobody has ever been promoted by somebody who did not know they wanted it, and the number of people quietly waiting to be noticed is remarkable.
Every six months, and immediately after anything that changes the picture — a reorganisation, a new manager, a project that went unusually well or badly.

Keep the answer.
And the record of doing it.

Goals, projects, tasks, habits and skills in one system, with the work logged against what it belonged to.

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