Yesterday, I republished an old essay from 2006 that summarized most of my journalism career up to that point, although it omitted any mention of most of the jobs I held during the first decade, or the specific details of my years at the Center for Investigative Reporting, or for that matter, even at Rolling Stone.
So, although it was fairly detailed, the article barely covered half of my 57-year career to this point, including nothing from the very eventful past 17 years. This last chunk included bouncing from job to job for 7 years in both the private sector (mainly startups) and the non-profit sector.
It also included a long stretch back at KQED, the large public media company in Northern California, where I headed the digital news team, which built up a very large web-based audience, as well as managing many other reporters, including many of those doing investigative projects.
Finally, yesterday’s piece didn’t cover the past three-plus years since I “retired,” which has unleashed the greatest volume of daily essays I have ever produced on a sustained basis — somewhere around 1,000 new and an additional 100 refurbished pieces, like yesterday’s.
What I m saying here is that my career has had so many nooks and crannies that I can barely keep track of them all. If I were a pro athlete, and some franchise wanted to retire my jersey, it would be very hard to say which team it should be chosen from.
All of these transitions I made kept me on edge over the most intense 50 of those years, as I moved from job to job, meeting new people and confronting new challenges. I had to learn new systems over and over, as well as how to fit into a wide variety of work cultures.
But when I wasn’t too dizzy from all of the constant change, I developed a lot of sympathy for the many people I met along the way who lost their livelihoods and had to search for a new way to get by.
That’s the point of today’s post. Transitions can often be rough but they also can bring new excitement to our work lives. For anyone out there in between jobs, don’t give up and don’t lose hope. The next big thing for you may be just around the corner.
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