# Adding it all up: The math behind designing your career

DevFeed: [Adding it all up: The math behind designing your career](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/adding-it-all-up-the-math-behind-designing-your-career-9488.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.figma.com/blog/adding-it-all-up-the-math-behind-designing-your-career/>)

Author: Kylie Poppen

Published: 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Figma Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/figma-blog.md>)

Topics: [math](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/math.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [human computer interaction](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/human-computer-interaction.md>)

Tags: [career](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/career.md>), [careers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/careers.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [human-computer-interaction](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/human-computer-interaction.md>), [math](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/math.md>), [work](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/work.md>)

## AI overview

The article presents career planning as a problem of interpreting limited data rather than following a predetermined path. It uses trend lines and scatterplots as metaphors for how people move among interests and jobs, and reflects on the significance of spending roughly 90,000 hours working.

## Source excerpt

Kylie offers a framework for how to approach the 90,000 hours that make up the average career, including reflections on her own path.