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by wetzler 14y ago
I have a great example of serendipity. I was visiting a former coworker in San Diego and she setup a lunch with another one of our buddies from work. We hadn't seen each other in years and of course I was excited to tell them about our new
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Embracing Serendipity (Why Getting Lucky Isn’t About Luck!)(blog.keen.io)
2 points by wetzler 14y ago|1 comments
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by wetzler 14y ago
I just looked at my metrics dashboard. Wow! Almost 4,000 hits from hacker news! thanks ya'll, hope you got some value out of it!
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by wetzler 14y ago
I'm not sure if this was a joke, but I thought it was funny, especially with that username. True too.
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by wetzler 14y ago
Wow. Age discrimination is illegal here in the US. I was a young manager and all of my direct reports were older, some of them over a decade older. Not a problem. Sounds like a place I wouldn't want to work anyway!!
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by wetzler 14y ago
I think you have the right idea about going in at a lower level first. I saw managers hired from outside of the consulting world get crushed. Even after climbing my way up the ladder, I sometimes felt a bit in over my head as a manager. The
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by wetzler 14y ago
Do it! Let me know if you want to chat. I had a lot more to write but had to cut the thing down so that other humans could read it.
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by wetzler 14y ago
I've been reading your blog for months, so this makes me really happy :)
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by wetzler 14y ago
That is awesome that you made the jump from enterprise to working for yourself (or at least being able to set your own work pace). Are you independent or do you work with a firm? I think my consulting firm had some flexible work options. I
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by wetzler 14y ago
I agree the wording is a bit awkward here. Hopefully my reply to Peter clarifies it some :)
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by wetzler 14y ago
You're right, Peter. I am a very early employee, but even considering my equity stake, this was not a good move if the only measurement is personal net worth. What I failed to convey is the feeling of accomplishment from personally contribu
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by wetzler 14y ago
That sounds great! I think I should have clarified in my post that I worked for one of the big 5 consulting firms here in the US. It was a salaried job. Independent consulting is much more entrepreneurial and I imagine you have quite a bit
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Why I left consulting and joined a startup(blog.keen.io)
46 points by wetzler 14y ago|47 comments
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by wetzler 14y ago
great story. really captures the excitement of the startup experience!