THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Learning

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere." - Chinese Proverb

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Your First Job Doesn't (Really) Matter

I recently polled a trailblazing group of women leaders — Northwestern University's Council of 100 — about their careers. How many of us were in the same job or even on the same career path today as we were when we graduated from college? The answer was three: three out of one hundred women. Then I asked how many were in the same industry. The number went up to about twenty.

So, at twenty-one years old, 20% of us knew the field we wanted to be in (and would ultimately succeed in) and 3% of us got both the job and the industry right out of the starting gate.

Gen Y's, don't worry: this isn't a cautionary tale; it's a reprieve. Don't worry so much about your first job — you're probably not going to get it right anyway, and that's okay.

Read on...

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Great by choice : uncertainty, chaos, and luck - why some thrive despite them all / Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen