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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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I met Sierra Dasso in 2018 at the Cloudflare headquarters in San Francisco during a work trip. I'd taken the 15‐hour flight from Singapore to California, as I'd been doing about four times a year since moving back to Singapore. It's one of my favourite flights because it meets my need for efficiency. Not only can I get a lot of work done and still catch a movie, but because it crosses the International Date Line, at certain times of the year, I can also land just before I left.

While in California on that trip, I spoke at a company lunch for women in sales. I was the company's most senior woman in sales, and it was still somewhat uncommon to have women in senior sales roles, particularly in ‘enterprise’, or large company, business‐to‐business. I was glad for the chance to encourage other women to envision themselves in sales leadership roles in the future.

The Cloudflare office had a typical start‐up vibe: four floors of exposed brick and open space. Conference rooms were named for HTTP error codes. The lunch was held in the largest conference room, logically named after the most common error code, 404. However, Room 404 was confusingly located on the first floor, making it very hard for newcomers ...

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