This is Stevea Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Listener Quentin writes in,

I've just left my job.

I followed the advice in your episode on how to leave a job.

There's a link in this episode's transcript, so I'm leaving a good impression.

What else should I do to wrap up myself?

Quentin, your timing is perfect, because while you search

and search for a job that isn't going to be taken over by robots within six months of your start date,

you have an unprecedented opportunity to milk your former job for everything it's worth. And by that,

I mean knowledge. Long, long ago, early in my career, I disagreed with a senior person at my job.

I was informed in no uncertain terms that he had 30 years of experience, and so he must be right.

Nope, I was right. He had 30 years worth of experience, but it was one year repeated 30 times.

Experience only counts if you learn from it. When leaving a job,

while it's still fresh in your mind, it's the perfect time to use it as a learning experience.

No, really. Breathe. Breathe in and out. And now say to yourself, it wasn't a mistake. It was a learning experience.

Also, polish that oil lamp you got at the garage sale, and a genie will come out.

Boom.

But seriously, you actually can learn from your experience.

So set aside an hour or two for reflection and get down to it.

Start by getting a piece of engineering graph paper with a wide first column and five narrow

columns. You can visit get it done guy.com slash engineer to download a free PDF. In the first

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