Thought-pourri

That’s what someone said about me 11 years ago when I told her not to quit her day job to start a bakery because her cupcakes were bad. Really bad. Maybe the ‘Younger Me’ could have been more tactful or perhaps I should have just been super-encouraging and lied through my teeth, but I didn’t

This is the third and final installment of my 3 part series. It reflects upon the 3 moments in my life that critical Career Decisions have altered my destiny and made me what I am today, the World’s first Career-Strategy Coach. In the first article, I wrote about how I was diverted into the world of

Read Part 1 here) In life, there are ‘sliding door’ moments (as in the Gwyneth Paltrow movie) where pivotal decisions make you who and what you become eventually. My second moment came when I hit my first Career-crossroad at 30 yrs old. Fresh out of a short but unsatisfying stint as a Business Development Manager in

As I sit here in my early 50s, I look back at a series of rather serendipitous twists that have brought me to where I am today, running the World’s first Career-Strategy Consultancy, Career Agility International. As a kid, I had always been very fascinated by other people’s careers. My dad was a humble Administrative

When I first read this, I was taken aback at the wisdom of this statement. Back in the 80s, I was a poor kid and was always surrounded by friends who were financially better off. I often envied them but never got jealous because these were great classmates who never rubbed in the fact that

I was one of the early adopters of LinkedIn – I started using this platform in 2005 and have been actively using it for the past 19 years. Recently, I’ve noticed that LinkedIn has tried to pivot towards a ‘Social Media Sharing’ model like Facebook or Instagram, but has been achieving rather strange, unintended outcomes.

My dad passed away over a decade ago at a ripe age of 80. He was a quiet man. A simple man who worked hard and didn’t drink, smoke or gamble. He was neither an ambitious man nor a high-flier, and I guess people in ‘the old days’ would have called him a ‘good provider’.