Risk/Reward: Why Intelligent Leaps and Daring Choices Are the Best Career Moves You Can Make by Anne Kreamer

Author:Anne Kreamer
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781400067985
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2015-06-08T14:00:00+00:00

Learn from Experience

“It was a thoroughly unpleasant experience,” Kate says, “that I would never be able to do for a living. I’m in no way the kind of person who gets better from constant fear of failure, who tolerates needless yelling and shaming, who is comfortable having no free time, no friends, earning very little money only to be working toward becoming a person who switches from being yelled at to the one doing the yelling. It was a great opportunity, because it taught me a very valuable lesson—I love food, I love people who love food, but I know myself and I know that I really could not work in a standard restaurant kitchen, as much as I might wish I could.” In other words, the one-night experiment dramatically helped her refine her focus.

By going out on a limb and test-driving the idea of working in a restaurant kitchen, Kate gained critical insight into what she wanted from her working life. Although she’s a seriously skilled and ambitious cook, she was able to check one employment subcategory off her list. This is an important skill that Thinkers need to put into practice: dipping a toe in and trying out options before investing too much time in research or study. (And for the opposite reasons Pioneers need to do this as well—to test-drive the awesome-looking car before impulsively buying it.)

Discovering she didn’t want to be a line cook didn’t mean that Kate stopped thinking about ways to continue to learn about a career that involved food. She did some freelance work catering dinner parties, and she heard through friends that the website Serious Eats was looking for a new contributing pizza editor—a perfect way to blend her desire to continue to work in the food space and work as a writer. She applied for the job and landed it. And today, after writing for Serious Eats and continuing another part-time job in media for a year, she’s become the first full-time editorial director for an exciting and well-funded food start-up, Farmigo.​com—a Web-based business linking farmers and artisanal purveyors with communities of local customers.

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