CORP-NEWS-AWARENESS-10.12.21

this was a HUGE mistake...

As a teenager, I had a tendency to destroy things.I picked on the younger kids, smashed mailboxes, and shot bottle rockets at traffic.My favorite game my friends and I played was to run when we saw cops, just to see if they would chase us...even though we hadn’t committed a crime. Sweet, huh? Yes. I was that human.By the time I reached college, I was sure I had outgrown this (mis)behavior. No such luck. I simply substituted (relatively harmless) delinquency with job-hopping, which I chalked up to my “lack of experience” and, sure, maybe I still had a little rebellious streak. Eventually, I found my place in the corporate world as a pretty successful and effective engineer and settled down and had a family. See, I wasn’t all bad!However, this new phase of adulthood and the responsibility that comes with it meant that, as much as my anti-authoritarian inner voices wanted to, I couldn’t tell my boss to “go to hell” or call him a “d-ck” to his face when I was frustrated with a project, or person, at work.Then I got a job with a large telecom company, where I thrived. I was an engineering hero, the person everyone came to with questions. I always had an answer or was happy to help them find the person who did.A few years in, it came time to appoint a leader for an important new project. Of course, they picked me. At first I was thrilled. Excited to take on more leadership, develop my skills in this arena. And I was sure I had outgrown my destructive streak. My career was soaring and, in my mind, the natural next step was the C-Suite.Until...I smashed up my own career...Yep. Worse than a mailbox.Here’s what happened...

Do you have your dream career?If not...what are you waiting for?More time? More money? The “right” time?Waiting for the kids (ages 5 and 8) to go off to college...Here’s the TRUTH: All of the reasons why you don’t have your dream career…are just excuses. *GASP* We’re sure you have a list. Your kids, boss, partner, ex, money, mother, dog, phone...If only excusing got you that promotion or paid the bills!It’s October, a few months until the year’s end. Isn’t it time we call BOO SH*T on excuses?!  It’s only our dream career that’s at stake.Ready to deal yourself in?!

You got this!Shay EdmondsTalent Acquisition Manager | HG University Coach-In-Training | HG University 

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