
Normalize Career Changes
Eat Your Crust
How to Overcome the Pressure of Expectations
The idea of success is so narrow that as soon as I hear that question I know what answer they expect and what answer they don't want to hear. There's like always this secret clout measuring thing that goes on behind the scenes in Silicon Valley. It tends to make people who work for maybe smaller companies but really fulfilling work feel bad about that. The only way you can do that is by dabbling in as many things as possible, Tiffany says.
Before some of us are even 18 years old, we pick a major at college that determines our course load for the next 4 years. The classes we take and our halfway-complete degree lands us some internships that we accept to “gain experience” (aka slap some big names on our resume). Our internship experience kick-starts our professional adult career, often in the same path that we’ve been on since we were a teenager.
For many of us, our 18-year old selves had a good enough guess of our skills and passions. For many of us, our 18-year old selves had no idea what we were doing.
Today, Tiffany (@skin_unfiltered) shares how she, a risk-averse accountant, quit her job at a Big 4 company to pursue her dreams of becoming an esthetician. Catch our episode to hear some skincare tips, our rant about Silicon Valley “clout”, and behind-the-scenes tea of being a SKINfluencer!
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