Last night, I caught up with an old friend who has a few more miles on his career odometer than I have. And he shared something quite profound.
“The goal of job-seeking is to never have to submit another resume again.”
In frankness, I’ve never thought about job-seeking in that context. But it makes complete sense. You perform so well in each position that your (former) co-workers start spreading the word about you. “If you need help with [insert subject matter], you have to work with [you].” Effectively, you’re building virality around you through each ‘customer’ interaction being amazing.
And the more I thought about it last night, the more parallels I found. For founders…
The goal of an entrepreneur is to never have to pitch to investors again.
For investors…
The goal of an investor is to never have to pitch how awesome or founder-friendly their firm is to LPs or a potential investment.
And taking a step back, looking at this through macro-lens…
The goal of any professional is to never have to sell again.
You may neither be a startup founder nor a salesperson, but I believe any of us could appreciate the contextualization of our own efforts. What is your endgame? And how can you pave the the most scalable road to your success?
There’s a saying that luck only gets better with success. I’d like to believe that after you reach critical mass and word-of-mouth, you manufacture your own luck.
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