Important Business Move
I am curious, what would you say is the most important move you made in terms of your career?
This can be anything -- a class you took that set you on your path, an action you took while on the job, an outlook you used when confronting an obstacle, an acquantaince you made or relationship you developed -- anything at all.
Tell what it was, the context in which it happened, and what it led to. Bonus points to whomever can teach a general business lesson from their own experience.
Sounds really obvious but not so. I was working as a programmer and going through the motions and I started telling my boss about my ideas for new systems.
He liked them and I was put in charge of developing the systems.
So the bonus was I got to add management experience, better pay, got to be able to add a list of intellectual property to my resume. the best bonus was that I enjoyed my job more.
This lead to better jobs, gave me confidence in my ideas and now I am starting my own business.