Countdown To Fifty

It has now been 60 days since I stepped away from the womb of corporate America and into the great entrepreneurial unknown. As a statement of the obvious I offer this: it sure is different out here.

Brilliant, no?

Here are some of the observed differences in no particular order.

In my Last Life I had ‘people’. By that I mean I had folks to help with the various brainstorms and hair brain thoughts that cross my path every single day. If I had an idea for a new marketing campaign I would call the good folks in marketing and say:

me: hello, marketeer, I am contemplating a new whiz bang campaign that looks like this in my mind

markeeter: sounds interesting, why don’t I formulate a few ideas that play off of that and get back to you , say next Monday

me: perfect, I await your call

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As I posted last month, and earlier this month my now prior employment has come to an end – as this sentence would indicate. For the first time in 29 years I woke up without a corporate J-O-B to attend to. Scary? A bit. Anxiety producing? Sure. Exciting? Absolutely.

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The last year has been filled with introspective thoughts about what constitutes ‘right’ versus ‘want’. Right seems to be the typical Lego Career. I coined this phrase to express

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Can a person be a headhunter (executive recruiter), sales consultant, and management coach? Too much to bite off at one time? Perhaps, but all three loom as distinct possibilities – and my last day at my current gig isn’t for another 3 weeks.

A very good sign.

A friend asked me today “how do you know when it’s o.k. to walk away from a job”? At midlife I guess that I am not alone [Read more →]