Blog: How to transform what you don't want into what you do want
I hardly ever share this story because, well frankly, it’s not my proudest moment. But here goes…
I quit my first full-time “adult” job after only 5 weeks. I’m not a total jerk, so I did give 2 weeks notice, but that only put me there for a whopping 7 weeks total. (That was not a fun conversation with my boss, let me tell you.)
Almost immediately after starting that job, I realized I’d made a big mistake. In my impatience to get a “real” job after graduating, I said yes to the first offer I got. And on Day 1 — walking around that tiny government office, surrounded exclusively by men three times my age, sitting in subcommittee meetings about topics I can’t even care enough to try to remember now — I already had an unsettled feeling in my gut that was warning me, “Uh oh, this isn’t right. You don't belong here.”
A few weeks in, I’d just sat through my third hour-long meeting where we debated — inconclusively, once again — whether or not to create a company LinkedIn page (seriously?? This is LinkedIn, you guys, not a strategy for world peace), when I checked my email to see that I had another job offer.
The company offering me this new job was about as opposite as you could possibly get from the one I was already at. Where my current office was small, old, stuffy, and maddeningly slow-paced, this new company was large, young, casual, and fast-paced.
A total 180-degree contrast. I figured that if I hated this place, then I’d probably love something that was the complete opposite. So I jumped at it. Yeahhh, it doesn’t work like that…
In this week’s blog, I’m sharing how to use what you DON'T want to figure out what you DO want.
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