If with the wave of a magic wand you could change one thing about your career, what would it be?

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I went to B-school earlier

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I completed medical school instead

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As someone who spent 25 years at the bedside, let me help ease that ache maybe a little. The moral burden of providing patient care in the current healthcare climate is sometimes too much to bear. Granted I started when the patient was the ultimate focus so my generation of caregivers maybe feel that more deeply, but that grass is really far from green. And it breaks my heart a little every day.

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Started earlier - didn’t get serious about a real job until I was 30

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Sounds like you’ve had a pretty amazing life! You win!

Not let fear hold me back from the many opportunities of the past. When you let that go you can achieve anything!

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Wouldnt have bought BearingPoint ESPPs!!

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You and me - both

I would have taken the opportunity to transfer to Palo Alto in the early 90s

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Took my software startup idea more seriously the 90s

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There are so many ideas I had in the late 90’s in terms of the internet that I should have done. I never thought it would explode the way it did

I would have taken that job with Amazon in 1999.

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Sell half my dot net company stock the day I exercised the options 20 years ago.

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I would have finished my bachelor degree in my early 20s instead of waiting til I was 43. At least I love what I’m doing now.

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Loving what you do at 43 is huge! Lots of people just end up somewhere at 43, hate it, but don’t know what else to do or can’t get out.

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Taken a job at amazon right out of college back in 1998. Live up and went to school in the area

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Working during vacation.

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Exercised max stock options

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I would have moved from nursing to IT much earlier!

Would’ve run with my aptitude for business earlier in life, rather than frustrating myself trying to find something else to do because I thought business was boring.

Wish I was more aggressive and got more support and guidance from my mentors to help progress faster. Joined consulting from industry and felt like I was blundering around for a while, which is why it took so long to progress.

Taken the Seattle based crypto job I was offered 20’years ago

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