399 - The Ugly Truth About Careers
Tiny Leaps, Big Changes
Gregg Clunis
4.3 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we take a look at the role that careers play in our lives, and what the ugly truth behind them is.
Key Points:
- Why your career shouldn't be your life
- The kind of career you should aim for
- Why you shouldn't pursue your passion
Notable Quote:
"Just. Get. Over. It." - Mahara Scholz
Important Links:
Original Article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lets-talk-career-ugly-truth-mahara-scholz/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | In this is tiny leaves, big change. leaves. Welcome to another episode of Tiny Lea's Big Changes where I share simple strategies you can use to get more out of your life. |
| 0:30.0 | My name is Greg Klunis and in this episode we are tackling a topic that many of us struggle with right after we graduate college and many of us who are later in our careers are still struggling with. And it's all about the brutal |
| 0:46.0 | truth when it comes to our careers. Because the fact of the matter is, we think about our careers in a certain way. We approach our |
| 0:55.6 | careers in a certain way and that's not always how things actually are and it's not |
| 1:02.0 | always what actually matters. So in today's episode |
| 1:05.6 | we are tackling the brutal truth of our careers so that we can shift the way we think |
| 1:11.9 | about it and we can start to take the actions that lead |
| 1:15.2 | to building a fulfilling career. Now before we get into the episode, there is another |
| 1:20.6 | podcast that I highly recommend you listen to. It's called Man Amongst Men. |
| 1:26.5 | And on the show, the hosts Dominic and Brian tackle topics that men often struggle with but never want to talk about. |
| 1:35.8 | Things like sex, career, relationships, things that affect us in our day-to-day lives, but we're maybe a little bit too prideful to have the conversation |
| 1:46.5 | about. |
| 1:47.5 | Check out men amongst men on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:54.0 | So let's jump into the episode, |
| 1:56.0 | the brutal truth about career. |
| 1:59.2 | Now, the inspiration for today's episode |
| 2:01.4 | comes from an article by Mahara Schultz. |
| 2:05.5 | She's the head of customer success at octa desk.com. |
| 2:10.1 | She's a speaker, she's a mentor, and she originally published this article back in October of 2017. |
| 2:17.0 | The title of the article is Let's Talk About Career and The Ugly Truth About It. And I picked this article. and the ugly truth about it. |
| 2:23.0 | And I picked this article because this is one of those topics that we don't talk about enough on this show and we don't really talk about enough in our own lives. |
| 2:32.0 | We all sort of approach career as either this |
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