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I Drank the Career & College Kool-aid
A Story of Unbelievable Failure, Determination & Making “Safe” Choices
Playing By the Rules has not Benefited Me. The Inspiration for this story is by the author Kristen Wilson in her story about how CV-19 is changing the choices we should make.
This is a story about most often taking what should have been the safe career choice, but the result being repeated failure, most often as the result of external factors. I started off with great potential, now I am not sure what to do next. I doubt many have had the bad career luck that I have encountered. I’m not saying that I haven’t taken risk, I have, I have lived in four provinces, and changed career tracks 3 times, but all in the attempt to make a safe career step.
I am a 52-year old that has tried to play by most of the rules most of the time and even doubled down when things were not going well for me…all to no avail.
I went to college and entered a professional program right out of high school. I was a high academic achiever in high school and was one of only eight people admitted to the program straight out of high school. I did not complete the program mostly due to…
