Category: Career Conversations
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Growing Your Career Takes Time: 17 Things to Remember Along the Way
“Wherever your idea of career falls on that spectrum, don’t expect to build it overnight. Mastery and influence in any area takes work and time. Here are 16 more thoughts to remember along the way…”
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Do What You Have to Do: Thoughts on Moving to Another Country, Nearing Retirement and Advice to Younger Generations
“Be agile. Always be thinking of the next opportunity. At least be a planner. Think as far as you can think. Don’t be thinking that right now is all that there is.”
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Give Your Time and Make Real Change: A Lawyer’s Advice on Creating a Support System and Investing in Yourself
“For me it was my parents, but it might be a different support system for you. Use your supports and create those supports if you don’t have one.”
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Moving Beyond Work: 3 Ways to Build Authentic Community
“I didn’t know many of the things I know now and I think that sometimes, innocence and ignorance can be a gift from God. Your shoulders have to be broad enough to carry these things, because you can’t unknow something. There is no forgetting.”
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A Degree Won’t Stand in the Way: An Assistant Manager’s Thoughts on Post-Secondary Education and Staying in your Own Lane
“The older you get, the more you realize that there are people at all different ages in the same life stages. Age becomes less of a milestone of when you should accomplish things. You can shine, I can shine and that’s okay.”
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Work Won’t Dictate Who I Am: A Customer Experience Manager on Job Loss and Maintaining Your Identity in a Corporate Setting
“There is always the pressure to fall in line with corporate politics and ways of communication. I don’t want to simply react like another cog in the machine. I try to intentionally choose the right and helpful thing, over just making people happy.”
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Trying to Make a Difference: A Writer’s Perspective on Youth Engagement, the Writing Process and Prioritizing Your Time
“Be aware of your distractions (social media, netflix etc.) and don’t let them prevent you from experiencing life and doing things that are important to you.”
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I Didn’t Want to be Labeled: A Mindset Coach on Discussing Wealth in the Church
“I was very, very aware that the conversation of money had been abused in christianity so I stayed away from the conversation entirely. I didn’t want to be labeled.”
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Corporate Ladders and Contentment: A Risk Management Professional on Childhood Dreams and Climbing the Corporate Ladder
“They advocated for me when I wasn’t sure how to advocate for myself. They gave me hope that those experiences wouldn’t define my future and by God’s grace, they haven’t.”
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Let Your Work Speak for Itself: A Business Owner’s Perspective on Work Ethic and Growing His Business
“Great businesses should have the goals of genuinely serving the needs of their clients, growing and providing jobs to serve others.”
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Not Something that Starts or Ends: A Financial Planner on Purpose, Retirement and Building a Business
“It doesn’t just spring up. It’s not going to be perfect. Don’t get stuck in analysis paralysis. Your first prototype will always be the most inferior; your product model must evolve and change. There is always going to be something to improve.”
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Putting Your Knowledge Into Action: A Rehab Worker’s Thoughts on the Importance of Compassion and Lived-Experience
“It’s one thing to be in university and learn about people and theories in class. It’s different when you work with them face-to-face.”
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