#36 How to Use Grit to Supercharge Your Career
Squiggly Careers
AmazingIf
4.9 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2018
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone and welcome to this week's Squiggly Career Podcast. I'm Helen Tupper, one of the co-founders |
| 0:07.1 | of Amazing If and I'm here as ever with Sarah, the other lovely co-founder. Hi everybody. We're very |
| 0:11.9 | excited as well. Sarah's been on holiday for a week so I feel like I've been apart from her and this |
| 0:16.0 | podcast is our moment to reconnect. I'd love to say I'm sitting here really tanned and bronzed, |
| 0:23.0 | but I look at all resemblance, something of a lobster right now. |
| 0:27.6 | But refreshed? |
| 0:28.8 | A refreshed lobster. |
| 0:30.1 | Yeah, that sounds about right. |
| 0:31.6 | A refreshed lobster. |
| 0:32.5 | I was actually celebrating. |
| 0:34.7 | We were away for a week to celebrate my dad turning 60. And in the context of |
| 0:39.6 | squiggly careers, he's really interesting because he has just embarked on his own squiggly |
| 0:44.6 | career. So I'm really proud of him. Where he's now going to move his contract to being a number |
| 0:50.4 | of days per year worked contract rather than a full-time contract. |
| 0:54.8 | Very interesting. |
| 0:56.0 | I know. I know. I get like so excited when I talk to him. |
| 0:59.3 | Also, I said he's just ruined our example because often I use him as our example of, |
| 1:04.3 | oh, you know, in previous generations, people worked in the same companies and had the same |
| 1:07.7 | types of jobs for a long time, which is exactly what he's done very, very successfully. But I feel like now he's like living the dream, living the amazing |
| 1:14.6 | if dream. But now you can add on, but even my dad, even my dad is squiggly. Yeah, even my dad who has |
| 1:21.1 | never listened to my podcast as opposed to my mum, who listens to every single podcast, |
| 1:25.1 | like word for word and gives me feedback. |
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