This book was written for students who are preparing for their future, and adults currently in the early stage of their career who: 1) are still trying to decide what they really want to do, 2) believe they need more information before they can feel comfortable making their next career decisions, or 3) would just like some meaningful guidance that can help them develop their career plans. This book is a compilation of over thirty years of actual diverse experiences and lessons learned that can help the reader answer critical questions, enlighten them of risks and hidden workplace related challenges, stimulate forward thinking, confidence, individual plan development, and the innovative qualities needed to recover from mistakes, increase viability, and to be in position to Do Your Own Thing. Diverse Career Paths is a game changing book focused on providing the reader with a wide set of tools and knowledge, far beyond what is taught in classrooms. Anyone without this information could find they are consistently vulnerable to risks that are manageable. Diverse Career Path helps the reader identify opportunities that can lead to entrepreneurship and brings attention to emerging careers currently on the horizon where training is ramping up and the job lines are still short. Diverse Career Paths helps the reader to gain self-awareness of their subtle financial profile, morale compass, personal success criteria, and provides suggestions for managing work related stress. Diverse Career Paths heightens the reader's awareness of external impacts, evolving market needs, evolving customer expectations, and global indicators that can alert you when you'll probably need to make adjustments to your career path. Diverse Career Paths introduces adaptable plans, recommendations, innovative solutions, approaches, concepts, strategies and calls out some pitfalls associated with work environments.