#269 Squiggly Career Conversations: Eric Sim

Squiggly Careers

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Business, Management, Careers

4.9 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week is National Careers Week and Sarah and Helen are shining a spotlight of squiggly career possibilities with 4 conversations with people whose careers are as individual as they are! Today you'll hear Eric Sim. In the rest of the series you'll hear career stories from people starting a new career from scratch, squiggling and staying in organisations and creating their own unique opportunities. Ways to learn more: 1. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of squiggly career tools https://mailchi.mp/squigglycareers/podmail 2. Read our books 'The Squiggly Career' and 'You Coach You' 3. Access free courses and learning on the government skills for life website gov.uk/skillsforlife For questions, feedback or just to say hello, you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast, where each week we take a different topic to do with work and explore the ups and the downs and some ideas for action and tools to try out that we hope will help you to navigate your career with a bit more confidence, clarity and control.
0:19.7	It's National Careers Week here in the UK, which has
0:22.4	inspired us to do a few different sorts of episodes. We've had some squiggly career conversations
0:27.7	with a few really fascinating and interesting people to give you a window into their world of
0:34.2	work, which is always such a good thing to do. Our conversations this week include
0:39.5	Helen talking to Jim McLeod, a Royal Navy Rear Admiral, who shares some incredible examples of how
0:45.0	he's squiggled and stayed. You can hear me talking to Steph Douglas, the founder of Don't Buy
0:49.6	her flowers, about her sort of entrepreneurial life and the realities of running her business and how that works
0:56.3	and at times doesn't work with the rest of her life. She's very honest and fun. So really
1:00.4	worth listening to that. And you can hear Helen chatting to BBC journalist Simon Mundy about
1:05.9	progression and how to create, not wait for career opportunities. And today you're going to hear my conversation
1:11.9	with Eric Sim. Eric is brilliant. His career story is full of resilience and bravery. And our conversation
1:19.7	together, I think, will always stay with me. I would always remember some of the advice and the
1:24.6	words of wisdom and just his general calm and collected approach to our
1:28.9	conversation together. He's got a brilliant story which I don't want to share too much of because
1:33.5	I'd much rather you listen to it and hear it straight from Eric. But I do really appreciate him
1:37.8	taking the time to talk to us. He was actually recommended to us by one of our Squiggly Career
1:41.9	community. So I did some research. He does some
1:45.5	incredible writing on LinkedIn where he has over 2 million followers. And so I got in touch with him
1:50.1	out of the blue. So I'm very grateful for him saying yes and then making time for us completely
1:55.4	out of his time zone, given he lives in a very different part of the world. And so I hope you
1:59.7	enjoy learning more about him and his career story.
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