MY CAREER HAS 4 WEIRD, DISTINCT MILESTONES
Milestone 1 1974: Hired by the-then 2nd largest computer company in the world. Promoted to increasing management positions in 1976 in Switzerland, France, Europe, and the USA over the next 22 years. Quit in 1996.
Milestone 2 1996: Hired by executive consultancy firm. Promoted to regional manager 1998. Quit in 2000.
Milestone 3 2000: Started multiple online businesses. Bankrupt in 2011. Restarted 2012 with $800 in jeans pocket.
Milestone 4 2016: Stumbled upon the fact that everything we know is a word. Next to my birth, the ultimate breakthrough if ever there was one.
Milestones 1 & 2: Living the charmed life under the protection of succeeding corporate umbrellas.
Milestones 3 & 4: The proof I survived every crisis so far. Or I wouldn’t be here.
Side note:
If you’ve gone bankrupt in the past or feel lost now, consider focusing the bulk of your attention on words. It’s often a springboard in your career and existence.
My career has weird milestones, too
I cannot say that I’m surprised. Weird milestones are common in many careers.
What I’ve done cannot be called a carrier. But thinking back, what I can say in that field is that at certain times, some projects didn’t turn out the way I expected. Later, I was happy about it because it lead me to much better positions…
Marie-Claire, you can call it anything you want. After all, that’s the beauty of millions of words. And in the end, all that genuinely matters are the milêstones we believe ourselves.