This is Wonderful article which i found which inspired me a lot ...
A must read article for Young Employee who started their career
The best career mistake I ever made led me to become my own boss. Not so bad after all!
Flashback: it’s 1995. I’m young and eager, and probably even a bit foolish. I just started my first job at a recruitment company after having spent months in a row writing my thesis. A process that cost me part of my sanity and my health, sitting countless hours on uncomfortable chairs in the university library. May I remind you that back then the Internet was a rather new phenomenon and people were still using typewriters, huge computers and awfully slow and noisy inkjet printers… Ah, sweet memories.
So, when innovations like the Internet and mobile phones first appeared in Belgium, I immediately understood their potential and the impact they could have on our way of working and living. I became one of those early Internet-believers and praised those groundbreaking technologies through the roof. The recruitment company where I worked still depended heavily on a paper archive, snail mail, fax and fixed phone lines. I was already foreseeing the impact of those innovations on my daily tasks: send job descriptions by email, contact candidates privately on their cell phones instead of at the office or at home... Major efficiency improvements!
So I shared my thoughts with my boss. She answered clear and simple: it was unlikely she would ever invest in expensive IT while we could go on working the old way. We already had one computer in the office. That should be sufficient. I suppose my disappointment showed when I left her office. I even got sacked just a few days later. My mistake? I guess juniors are simply too young to have a vision on the future of the company. Therefore, I was trouble.
My answer was that I never wanted to work for a boss anymore. I started my very own tech-savvy recruitment company. Not to prove her wrong, I just felt very strongly about my vision on the future. In just 5 years I built a strong brand and I sold it soon afterwards, focusing even more on the opportunities the Internet has on offer with a new company and my very own online recruitment solution.
I like to believe my ex-boss noticed and now regrets her decision. Her company actually went bankrupt 5 years later. But it doesn’t really matter. Looking back on this episode, I’m even grateful. It's amazing how things turned out. Every mistake and every choice you ever make has an influence on your path in life. Nothing is written, but I truly believe it is worth following your guts. I fell and stood back up stronger. What I learned? Nobody is too young to have a vision for the company. Listen to your coworkers and employees, and certainly the juniors. They may have little or no experience, but they do have the future. They know all about the latest trends because they are writing them. And if one ever shows the guts to share his or her idea, I suggest you listen carefully…
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