The “I’ve ignored you but now I need you” request. • “Hey Ron, I know I you’ve sent some notes saying hi over the past few years and I haven’t responded…but I’m searching for another job. Can we hop on a call and talk? I do my best to reach out to as many as …
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I couldn’t wait for the college year to finish in early May so I could reconnect with all of my buddies to drink beer and just have dumb, stupid fun. Some of my best memories from those times in the late 80’s were dragging a few beer balls to Burholme Park in Philly…usually around 10AM…bringing …
Spring of 1998 and I’m attending a corporate planning meeting with about 40 other people. I’m sitting in the back row and squinting to see the screen at the front of the room. My peer sitting next to me said “put your glasses on”. I told him I didn’t have any; didn’t want to put …
Serendipity: The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way; “a fortunate stroke of serendipity” As a teen, I thought a lot about my future, but not about my career. I knew the career would happen but I really didn’t have a plan for how it would happen. My thoughts …