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POPS In a tough economy, you gotta go where the jobs are

by nealstewart 11-20-2009

I've been extremely lucky in my career. For the most part, I've been able to work at jobs that I love. I attribute a lot of this "luck" to the fact that I learned how to find jobs on my own early on. When I was in college, I thought a job at an advertising agency would just fall in my lap. Maybe if I had gone to a better school or if was at a different time (it was 1995) it would have. It didn't and I spend the summer looking for a gig while working at a department store. Later on, I thought I would move to Austin, TX and a job would fall in my lap. Maybe at a different time it would have, but this was 2000 and the internet bubble had just popped in the Silicon Hills in Texas. Again, I spent that Summer looking for a gig before finding some nice people at Pabst Brewing Company who were willing to take a chance on me. Through all of that, I learned the obvious. Unless you just got your MBA from Kellogg or Wharton, a job is not going to just fall in your lap. Finding a

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