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Messing up your career

See career challenges for what they are: an opportunity to try something different

If your career never got messed up, then you’d probably stay in your comfort-zone for your entire life and never try something different.

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"I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it." -Frank Howard Clark

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