I have not noticed that I’m getting crap from Ramaswamy. Not sure if that’s due to settings or not checking messages or what.
I get emails here and there when a connection posts an article, or if I get a message, and occasionally asking me if I want to connect with someone (99% of whom work at my company). Never gotten any emails like what you got.
i would follow him off the cliff only to confirm he hit the bottom with full gravitational force. that’s the only way i’d follow that clown
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i do
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McDonald’s has two deals on the app. One is $1.29 fries, the other is 10 McNuggets for $1. You have to wait 15 minutes after using a deal before using another one. Should you get the fries first, or the nuggets?
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Depends. If you really want to binge the fries, go for it. If you’d like to eat both at the same time, I feel like the fries have a window of about four and a half minutes before they lose their luster. Nuggets are better fresh but hold up better.
I think I’d go nuggets first. Eat half, save half for when fries arrive.
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What if “drain the swamp” was really a euphemism for something else?
The sooner I eat the rest of the pumpkin pie, the sooner I can get back to losing weight, right?
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How do you make peace with the fact that your soft skills are worth WAY more to your company than the technical skills you worked hard for years to refine?
My soft skills come way more naturally to me than my technical skills ever did, yet I’m paid for them as if they were something I worked hard to develop. I don’t mind being paid for my value, but it doesn’t FEEL as valuable somehow. Logically I understand it. But intuitively it feels backwards. Especially since I know that if I worked in tech, as a manager my soft skills would be worth a lot less than the technical skills of the people I manage.
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Because we are worth what we bring to the table whether or not they were naturally there or developed over years of hard work. You don’t need to apologize for being gifted at an important part of your job.
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Kind of wish someone had recognized my soft skills 15 years ago, then!..
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were they the same 15 years ago? Mine developed with experience, maturity and increased knowledge. To the point I don’t need to develop my technical skills anyone, and everyone is fine with that
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I’m definitely being hyperbolic, I recognize that I could not have been an effective leader 15 years ago with only a couple years of experience (plus much of this wisdom has come from living this damn life). But I kind of wish that someone had told me, “hey, you have a lot of potential for leadership, let’s make sure we’re developing you with that lens and you’re an active participant in it.” My current employer has a program like that for future finance leaders - my past companies didn’t. I think if I had been hired into my current company out of college, I’d be on a different career trajectory. Maybe better, maybe worse, I don’t really have regrets, I’m just musing.
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And also, I kind of wish I’d explored other careers besides being an actuary. I like being an actuary, but I think I would have liked a lot of other things more, and didn’t really take the time to consider other options in college.
Maybe I’d have been a kickass psychiatrist. Or a mediocre journalist. Who knows.
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Understanding the product you sell is invaluable at the time you work with products. Having the soft skills to sell ideas is also invaluable at the time you lead people. Different stages in what is a great career trajectory.
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I am a different boat
I was born to be an actuary
The only other thing I would consider was a sports statistician. and those jobs were rare and taken over by companies and computers
I didn’t really choose my path, as much as I felt I floated along and let the tide take me.
A few times I needed to kick off the shore, or redirect to avoid danger, but I didn’t really do much more.
As for management, “that’s ok, I can do it quicker myself”
Very happy where I ended up
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I think as we grow older we learn more of ourselves and get more comfortable with ourselves and the whole dimension of soft skills opens up. When we were at school with the way SATs worked etc that makes us really focused on academics so we over focus on the technical side. Maybe an MBA could help. Never really considered it.
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I have been thinking a bit more about this. I think quilting is one of your strengths. A lot of people don’t have a hobby that gives them time to be reflective as they engage a different part of their brain.
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When was the last time you went inside a mall?