Published: March 02, 2019
First off, get to know yourself, ideally before you are in your mid-30s
Because I’m so wise, I’m sometimes asked to give careers advice to teenage girls at schools. And I love doing this, because the girls I meet are invariably excellent and I want to save them from making the same mistakes I did. (“Kids, it’s not as funny as you think it is to take drugs at a music festival in front of your boss.”)
But, increasingly, I feel I’ve been focusing on the wrong areas. I’ve definitely made more mistakes in my personal than my professional life, and that’s really saying something – given I once caused an actual bomb scare in my office and had the entire building evacuated by the emergency services (long story, another time).
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