Curating Career Life Stories: How Did I Get Here? Ep. 146 with Carlene Thissen Curating Career Life Stories: How did I get here?

Join me for the career reflections of Carlene Thissen, singer, songwriter & author. Her dream is to become a doctor, but then discovers she has an aversion to blood. Unsure about what’s next, she drops out of college and gets a job as a secretary.

Working as a secretary, and wanting to do more within the business, she becomes an expert in coupon bar code scanning. Leading her to bigger roles and ultimately to starting her own consulting business. Music has always been part of her life, but she never thought of it as a career until much later in life.

After a successful 35-year corporate career, she leaves it all behind and begins searching for what’s next. As someone who pays attention to signs, she discovers new opportunities prompting her to write her first book and song. And the rest is history.

What’s served Carlene best is: “My ballsiness!”

Her words of wisdom she’s got three:

1)  "Be Useful." -- A quote she likes from Arnold Schwarzenegger's documentary and book
title.

2) “Do what comes easy.”

3) “Watch for signs.”