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Experience, Opportunity, and Developing Your Career (HBR Work Smart Series)
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Experience, Opportunity, and Developing Your Career (HBR Work Smart Series)

by Harvard Business Review, Mimi Aboubaker, Ruchika T. Malhotra, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Deborah Grayson Riegel
May 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
208 pages
3h 5m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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18 The Case for Making Terrible Career Choices

by Ruchika Tulshyan

Ask me about my biggest career foible and I’ll usually respond with the clichéd “There are no regrets, only lessons.”

But that’s not entirely true. There will always be one career decision I made—one that altered the course of my life quite significantly—that I often come back to. Part “that was a terrible decision” and part “wow, I can’t believe I survived that.”

It was moving to Mumbai from New York in my early twenties.

If I back up a little, I’m not quite sure what sparked my decision to apply for an internship at a business news organization halfway across the world. I was a recent journalism school graduate in New York, interning at a well-known magazine, surrounded ...

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ISBN: 9781647827069