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...career advice I've ever received. I was of the mind that the path to success was maybe staying on the paved road, and that involved the least amount of risk. But the reality is that sometimes, like, staying in that safest path is actually the riskies
...career. I think that's been critical differentiator for Lime Rock over time. And that was great advice.
...myself and my career journey. For the first time, I actually chose curiosity and passion over money and title, which I think is a really, really, really hard but important lesson to learn for any young professional.
...careers are never these, like, rhetoric races that Yeah. You think about. They're never perfect. They are, like, I think Cheryl in her book called it sort of a jungle gym. Like, that's much more much better metaphor for what a real career looks like.
...for my career. And then over time, I ended up mentoring people. And actually, I think being a mentor, you actually learn more than being a mentee. Often young people will say to me, what advice will you give to us? And I always tell people three piec
...career, the sorts of things I wanna learn, the sort of culture I wanna be around, and that may not all necessarily come from one job at the same time. So I think in early work, we surveyed our audience. It was about 70% that have a side hustle or som
...it's important to try a few different hats on to say, hey, is this right for me? Am I interested in this? Because, you know, we go to school and then we come out whether you go to college or not, and you're just kind of thrust into what we call the q
...career. I had a lot of friends who had gone into the foreign service and were not enjoying it. I happened to read Michael Lewis's book Liar's Poker, which I don't think is intended as an inspirational recruitment tool, but it sounded like a really cr
...in their career that it really doesn't matter. And the third thing I'd say, which I was a huge beneficiary of, was get into an industry that's growing, a business, an industry, or something that's growing. Because if you are, like, I think about dist
my last year in college. I was actually studying to be a civil engineer, Graduated, became a civil engineer, focusing on structures. Sitting at my desk one day, six months into the job, I just started jotting down my life goals. And for each goal I h
...advice that I give a lot of young people as I reflect on my own life is that pretty much 90% of the specific things that have happened in my life, I could never have planned for. I kinda had a macro journey in place. I wanna go to college, get a job,
...a career in defense and government, and it just, like, I was lost. So I was in my early twenties. Like, now what? What do I do? I have no skills. So I did kind of what I do best. I've always been a natural networker. Love meeting people. Love learnin
...their career to optimize for usually the ultimate outcome of either being a founder or being an operator in an early stage start up environment. And to think about that, thinking about your career like an entrepreneur, they might go and do two years
...advice in for a long time and treat people with dignity and respect. And that's the advice that I think of every day.
...future career in investing. So when you realized you reached the peak,
going to the career services in the days where they actually had little, like, index cards there. And it was for a nighttime typist at a place called First Boston. So I went for an interview, and they said, you might be a little bit more qualified fo
I had no idea. You and me, liberal arts, education? My parents had done very different things, so there's no exposure going up. Finance ended up being something that I saw a lot of people in particularly going to college, your friends, their parents.
...advice you've ever received? My parents instilled in this and lived it. Education is the greatest gift you can give a child. That was number one, and they lived it. My dad went to school for fourteen summers, gets undergraduate degree. My mom was a r
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