Great bosses are way harder to find than great engineers.
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A great number of people are not meant to be bosses.
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Your specific skills may become less relevant (well, you might hold out for the CoBOL phenomenon 
), but your critical thinking skills will not, and will hone with every new opportunity you take on.
Best career advice I ever received was from a Canadian Major General who came to speak at our Air Command Staff College seminar*. When asked âto what do you attribute your success?â, he said something to effect, âI only strived at two things: 1) I did the job I was currently doing as best as I could, and I was more successful at that in some than in others. 2) If an interesting opportunity came along, Iâd tend to go for it if doing so didnât bollox my current commitments. In doing so I learned a LOT of different things, each adding to my cumulative experience, which seemed to just attract more opportunities.â
Anyway, FWIWâŚ
*sounds fancy, but it was the local version for people who werenât âhotâ enough to get selected for the in-residence version.
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Having great fun watching my grandkids slide into adulting. Theyâve all taken retail/food service jobs (grandson IS Chuck-E-Cheese, I have his autograph ), and the two in food service were offered management jobs. Scared both into doubling down on schoolâŚ
The other wants to be a screenwriter. This is one of those aspirations the more practical part of me would want to discourage; indeed, where I volunteer is a fellow whose name youâll find in about 30 blockbuster movie credits, I asked him about such a career and his reply was âDonâtâ. But, she writes really well, has wonderful grasp of the nature of storytelling. Iâve always been a fan of âyouâll be more successful doing something you likeâ, just easier to be motivated to do it well, and I canât bring myself to talk her out of it. All wife and I can do is offer her a safe place if it doesnât work out.
Life is what you make of it, and nothing else.
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My nephew is also Chuck-E and he says they donât wash the costume 
he likes it more in the kitchen.
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Cripes, same exact conversation with my grandson. I just found out heâs put in his two-week notice, going to look for something different.
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I told my nephew its best to look for a job when you have a job readyâŚ
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