Nothing you ever learn is lost. When I was much younger and about to quit my job, a good friend worried aloud that it would be like falling down a hill. After all, hadn’t I built a reputation and gained some prestige? Now I would be going somewhere else “just to have to do it all over again.” I left anyway. I went to the new place, where I was put into new situations with new people. I found -- somewhat surprisingly at the time -- that many of the skills I had learned in my old job were still valuable in the new one. Over time, I tried to add new skills, to figure out exactly who I was becoming, and to keep growing I’ve left other jobs since, and whole careers. Sometimes the change seemed radical to others, but I’ve never regretted even one of them. Each change has helped me grow as a person. Each has also taken me closer to where I really want to be: waking up each morning knowing that, several times today, I will get to see exactly why I am here. And no day goes by when I don’t use some of the problem-solving skills that I learned all those years ago on my first job. We can get overly invested in some of the decisions we made early in life. The teenaged “version” of you probably decided on your first career and helped build the foundation of your working life. Each successively older version of you has a responsibility for thanking your younger versions for their faithful stewardship of your life. Then though, you need to move on, continuing the building process in whatever direction you now feel that you need to grow. Barry Brownstein Author of Old Man on Campus amazon/dp/1479372099/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk
Posted on: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:15:48 +0000
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