Navigating Career Turbulence

Worklife with Adam Grant

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4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Everyone’s career will hit some turbulence at some point. The past year has left us all reacting to dramatic change. Instead of pushing harder against the headwinds, we’re sometimes better off tilting our rudder and charting a new course. In this episode, hear from people who have taken unusual steps to battle uncertainty, rethought their approach to finding and landing a job, and reached out for help in unexpected places—as well as an expert on recessions who forecasts the future by looking to the past. For the transcript for this episode, visit go.ted.com/WLTranscript41. WorkLife is made possible with the support of LinkedIn, Logitech, Morgan Stanley, SAP, and Verizon.

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0:00.0	When I was a little kid, I was four years old on my first airplane ride.
0:05.0	And we got to go up front in the cockpit, you know, because you could kind of do that back
0:08.1	then.
0:09.1	And it was totally dark, no moon over the Atlantic Ocean.
0:14.3	There was like a billion stars in the sky.
0:17.0	And I went back and told my mom I wanted to be a stewardess.
0:20.0	And my mom took her credit, she looked me up.
0:22.6	And you might want to think about being a pilot.
0:25.2	And there you go.
0:26.6	That's what I wanted to do from then on.
0:28.4	Sharon Pressler has flown lots of different kinds of airplanes since then, including fighter
0:33.4	jets.
0:34.4	She was the first woman in the US Air Force to fly the F-16.
0:37.9	It's just always been the coolest looking airplane.
0:40.5	That bubble can't be in the big engine inlet.
0:43.0	It has the highest G tolerance, which is nine times the force of gravity on the earth,
0:47.3	which is significant.
0:49.4	It can do anything.
0:51.1	Sharon's had an extraordinary career spanning more than three decades.
0:54.8	But recently, after 14 years as a pilot with Southwest Airlines, she hit a particularly
0:59.4	bad patch of turbulence.
1:01.6	Her whole industry did.
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