Comments on: Mistakes I’ve Made in My Career

By: Ecommerce Help - Tyrone Shum

Ecommerce Help - Tyrone Shum — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:27:42 +0000

Reading your blog post, sometimes I can’t help but think that sometimes we tend to look over oppurtunities because of glistening choices. Be it in SEOs, Pay per click ads and the likes, once in a while we are all bound to make mistakes. Although be it big or small, we are all entitled to get over it and find a way to make things right again.

By: Dominic Rivera

Dominic Rivera — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:57:31 +0000

Life is about connecting the dots… and when you connect it, you will see the reason why things happen.

By: WTL

WTL — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:42:49 +0000

Living life is *about learning from our mistakes* – no one really learns from successes. You can feel good that you’re made them and are cognizant that you have made them. Live and *learn*. That, my friend is a good thing.

By: Jason Cohen

Jason Cohen — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:22:06 +0000

You can’t beat yourself up over choices like this. You did the best with the information you had, period. That’s all you can ever do; even getting lots of business advice doesn’t necessarily help.

When I sold my company, some said to hold out for more money (after all it was sure to grow in another 12 months) while others said to take the money when it’s offered. I did the latter, and it turned out we had a massive recession. But it could just have easily been the opposite and I would have left a lot of money on the table.

Doesn’t matter. You do the best you can and, as other commentors have said, learn and try something new.

By: JamieO

JamieO — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:05:42 +0000

Life is all about choices – and there aren’t any that you can’t work past if your priorities change. Decide where you want to be in 3, 5, 10 years and what it will take to achieve those goals. Just don’t pay so much attention to your moral compass that you miss out on the journey before you. I don’t remember which comedian said it, but remember that “If you take life too seriously, you’ll never get out alive.”

By: David Peralty

David Peralty — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:52:04 +0000

Part of the reason that I’ve made so many mistakes in my career is my focus on the rate of pay, and the reason for that focus is due to the responsibility placed on my with regards to providing for my family.

Back when I first started blogging, any pay was good pay. Now I need mid-four figures just to make ends meet. Currently, with Sabine in University, we are still running in a monthly deficit. With my interests not linked to profitability, I have to take on careers that drive revenue, and thus pay the bills, especially with the economy as it is today. I am looking at changing that equation though, but it will take some time.

Thanks for the amazing comment though!

By: JamieO

JamieO — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:43:01 +0000

The important thing is that you learn from those mistakes and are better prepared for similar situations in the future. Take the bull by the horns so to speak.

One of my own mistakes in the past was that of poor perspective about my career. Over the course of 3 years working at one company I changing roles every 8 – 12 months. I felt like I was just fighting fires wherever they needed me to go.

Until I began to see a pattern to the direction my career was going – one that I didn’t like. At that point, I started communicating my interests to anyone who had potential to influence the types of roles I was staffed in. The result was a reasonable feeling of control over my own career path and getting staffed into roles that were more in line with where I wanted to grow.