Your experience comes with you

Career · Little Light original

Changing direction can make the years behind you look suddenly irrelevant. You see a new field full of people who began earlier, and wonder whether your own beginning will erase everything you have already built. Look more closely at what you are bringing. The patience to explain a difficult idea. The judgment to notice when a promise is unrealistic. The ability to work with someone whose habits are different from yours. A new field will have things you genuinely need to learn. Give those things your attention without pretending you have never learned anything before. You can be a beginner in one part of your life and experienced in another. Both truths can travel with you. Starting again asks for humility, but it does not require you to arrive empty-handed. Let the years behind you become material for the work ahead.

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