Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label career

A little bit of this and that

They say you never stop learning.  I sure hope so.  I was fortunate enough to find a variety of careers after graduating from school with what appears in hindsight was a toolkit to open many jars.  Jars of knowledge and understanding. In doing so each jar or opportunity was just that - a chance to learn a bit of the industry I was working in and make myself smarter in some small area.  I kept learning and extrapolating the skills and ideas of one to another and pretty soon it gave me the confidence to embark on adventures that I had little to no knowledge about. In that respect I worked in Financial Services, helping customers open trading accounts to buy and sell equities in an underdeveloped market; before which I produced steel from scrap, for variety of manufacturing companies. Then came my career in consulting which by design was an opportunity to appear smarter than I was and jump headlong into an area with some of the same tools that I had left school w...