May 2024
Beginner
208 pages
3h 5m
English
by April Rinne
Every four years or so, something inside me shifts. I get restless and want to learn something new or apply my skills in a new way. It’s as though I shed a professional skin and start over, fresh.
In my twenties, I got all kinds of flak for this. When I decided to guide hiking trips rather than join a consulting firm, my peers said that my résumé made no sense. When I opted to defer graduate school to travel in India, my mentors questioned my seriousness and said my professional future could crash.
I felt like something was wrong with me because I was interested in so many things while my friends were laser-focused on climbing the corporate ladder. It’s not that I wasn’t disciplined ...