8 min
Starting a First Job of Many What's Your Work Fit?
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- Careers
Dan Smolen recalls how starting a first job of many benefitted his professional career and informed a profound journey in the future of work:
As the last of the graduation ceremonies conclude, America’s latest crop of entry-level workers is stressed out about connecting with work and career.
I remember the experience well. And what I recall most was how I wanted my first assignment out of college to align me perfectly with my career goals of reaching the senior advertising agency management ranks.
It was a fool’s errand.
The Spring of 1983, my graduation season, ushered in one of the-worst job markets since the 1930s.
Unemployment was terribly high. Like me, my peers struggled to connect to entry-level work. With each passing week of no returned phone calls, I fell into a depression.
Main podcast segment starts at 3:09
In this episode, Dan discusses:
The chance meeting, at a Washington Post advertisers event, that got him to starting a first job of many.
* How that first job taught him how to succeed in a corporate setting.
* Turning a messy, analog magazine circulation file into a money making resource.
* Leveraging first job skill, experience, and accomplishments to find a great ad agency position in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.
Starting a first job of many provides young careerists the time and space they need to learn how to work, and make work part of a day doing other things.
Main podcast segment starts at 3:09
EPISODE DATE: June 3, 2022
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Image credits: Entry level workers, insta-photos for iStock Photo; podcast button, J. Brandt Studio for The Dan Smolen Experience.
Dan Smolen recalls how starting a first job of many benefitted his professional career and informed a profound journey in the future of work:
As the last of the graduation ceremonies conclude, America’s latest crop of entry-level workers is stressed out about connecting with work and career.
I remember the experience well. And what I recall most was how I wanted my first assignment out of college to align me perfectly with my career goals of reaching the senior advertising agency management ranks.
It was a fool’s errand.
The Spring of 1983, my graduation season, ushered in one of the-worst job markets since the 1930s.
Unemployment was terribly high. Like me, my peers struggled to connect to entry-level work. With each passing week of no returned phone calls, I fell into a depression.
Main podcast segment starts at 3:09
In this episode, Dan discusses:
The chance meeting, at a Washington Post advertisers event, that got him to starting a first job of many.
* How that first job taught him how to succeed in a corporate setting.
* Turning a messy, analog magazine circulation file into a money making resource.
* Leveraging first job skill, experience, and accomplishments to find a great ad agency position in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.
Starting a first job of many provides young careerists the time and space they need to learn how to work, and make work part of a day doing other things.
Main podcast segment starts at 3:09
EPISODE DATE: June 3, 2022
Please Subscribe to The Dan Smolen Podcast on:
– Apple Podcast
– Android
– Google Podcasts
– Pandora
– Spotify
– Stitcher
– TuneIn
…or wherever you get your podcasts.
You may also click HERE to receive our podcast episodes by email.
Image credits: Entry level workers, insta-photos for iStock Photo; podcast button, J. Brandt Studio for The Dan Smolen Experience.
8 min