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Don't Quit Your Day Job
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Don't Quit Your Day Job

by Aliza Knox, Wendy Paris
April 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
208 pages
4h 40m
English
Wiley
Audiobook available
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mindshift oneGo for both: Your work and your life are on the same team

In 2007, after more than two decades of working in financial services and consulting — a journey that took me from Bankers Trust in New York City to BCG in Sydney and Singapore, and then to Charles Schwab and Visa in California — I did something radical. I made a mid‐career switch that was risky. I took a lower title and a pay cut to move into a new industry that I didn't know much about: technology. I moved to Google to run APAC online sales (followed by leadership roles at Twitter and, most recently, Cloudflare, an internet security company).

Not long after I landed the job at Google, I travelled from my then‐home in San Francisco to Sydney to introduce myself to the Australian team. While in Sydney, I met a young American woman named Suzy Nicoletti. Suzy was at the beginning of her career, and was bright and energetic. She seemed right at home in outdoorsy Sydney. We immediately bonded over a conversation about swimming. (It's kind of impossible not to talk about the water in Sydney, a harbour city with beaches.) Suzy had been a competitive swimmer in college in Los Angeles; I'm also an avid swimmer, though not at the collegiate level. We also talked about our favourite American foods that are unavailable in Asia (Stove ...

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