Hey Folks
I want to share with you today something that has been digging inside my head for a while now.
Someone might have gone through my story but as a brief recap for every one, I was a top sales manager that decided to take life by the horns and use my talent to run my company.
Pumped by an abnormous ego, I crashed and burned after a year. had to go back with parents, take a consulting job and save every dime to get to the end of the month.
To date I lost over 120,000 euro.
There is a silver lining though: all that sleepless nights made me stronger, all that pain forced to grow and I started to get healthy habits (lost over 20kgs in the meanwhile, bye bye junk food) that pushed me back in killer shape, both in my mind and in my body. And of course, I had so much experience while trying to make a business fly that I've seen every possible mistake a person can do.
NOW: I've been offered an executive VP job with market highest pay.
benefits
travel expenses with business class flights covered
corporate Amex.
equity package
After 2 years of grinding and getting no where I have to be honest and understand when it's the time to push and when it's the time to call the towing truck and clear the middle lane.
My first attempts at switching to the fast lane crashed miserably, I'm sorry but if you came here to read a motivational story about glorious pivots, millionaire exits and how F*ck**g lush is my lambo with 2 russian models on it , this isn't the post.
This is the "tactical retreat" post.
Lost battles to try to win the war mentality.
What would you have done in my shoes with an offer like the above?
I want to share with you today something that has been digging inside my head for a while now.
Someone might have gone through my story but as a brief recap for every one, I was a top sales manager that decided to take life by the horns and use my talent to run my company.
Pumped by an abnormous ego, I crashed and burned after a year. had to go back with parents, take a consulting job and save every dime to get to the end of the month.
To date I lost over 120,000 euro.
There is a silver lining though: all that sleepless nights made me stronger, all that pain forced to grow and I started to get healthy habits (lost over 20kgs in the meanwhile, bye bye junk food) that pushed me back in killer shape, both in my mind and in my body. And of course, I had so much experience while trying to make a business fly that I've seen every possible mistake a person can do.
NOW: I've been offered an executive VP job with market highest pay.
benefits
travel expenses with business class flights covered
corporate Amex.
equity package
After 2 years of grinding and getting no where I have to be honest and understand when it's the time to push and when it's the time to call the towing truck and clear the middle lane.
My first attempts at switching to the fast lane crashed miserably, I'm sorry but if you came here to read a motivational story about glorious pivots, millionaire exits and how F*ck**g lush is my lambo with 2 russian models on it , this isn't the post.
This is the "tactical retreat" post.
Lost battles to try to win the war mentality.
What would you have done in my shoes with an offer like the above?
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