This is Help Wanted, the show that makes your work work for you.

I'm Jason Pfeiffer, editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur Magazine.

And I'm money expert Nicole Lapin.

On Tuesdays, Jason and I answer the helpline and help callers solve their work problems.

And on Thursdays, I give you one way to improve your work and build a career or company you love.

And it starts now.

Do you ever wonder if you went down the wrong path?

And I mean that maybe as existential as it sounds, but like you made a decision a while ago to start a business or to

pursue a specific career or to start a relationship or like whatever.

You made some foundational decision.

And now as a result, your life is not always exactly what you wanted to be.

And you wonder, did I choose wrong? Did I go

down the wrong path? A listener named Vanessa recently asked me that. She works at a startup,

which is exciting, but also exhausting. And she emailed me and said this. She said,

the highs are high, but the lows are low. I truly love what I do,

but sometimes question the risk and wonder if I should have taken a more traditional career

path. How do I square that? Well, Vanessa, here is my answer. Don't question your past. Instead,

take what you need from it. Think of it like this.

Vanessa's choice is not Vanessa's current path versus a path that Vanessa did not choose, right?

Like what she's doing right now versus what she could have chosen many years ago.

Because that choice just leaves you stuck.

It's like creating an original sin, you know, a decision

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