When I was 29-Years old I had everything that people told me I should want to have as an adult. I was: married, owned a home, 2 nice cars, Masters in Business degree and a high paying job. Nice people around me kept telling me how great I was doing.
Then, during a breakfast with a work colleague at a Waffle House in Tuscaloosa, AL a bombshell hit me like a ton of bricks. The bombshell was these two things:
1) The job that I worked hard to get wasn't interesting to me at all, in-fact I didn't like it.
2) My work colleague was 65-years old and retiring. I was 29-years old and just starting.
My BEST case was that if everything went tell that in 36-years I'd be able to retire like my friend across the booth from me. 36-years was longer than I had been alive, so basically to commit my life to something I didn't like sounded a lot like a death sentence.
I had worked hard and done all the 'right' things and ended up in the wrong place.
Learn how I reinvented myself and got onto a better path and how my experience may be able to help young people who are starting their careers avoid ending up in their own 'wrong place'.
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