Years before anyone paid me well, I started building my career as plans within plans — so no single failure could take the whole thing down.
For years I believed the fix for being tired all the time was simply fewer hours — and I was aiming at the wrong thing.
Twelve years after leaving the bedside, a nurse admitted she still misses the one-to-one with patients — and she’d still make the same choice.
The new AI tools appeared at work before anyone was taught to use them — and everyone is quietly hoping a colleague figures it out first.
The first time a client paid me $75 an hour, I was convinced someone in accounts had made a mistake.