Tara Goodfellow shudders when she remembers how she acted at her first job out of college. She once chased a 50-year-old colleague up the stairs to get to their boss first to explain her side of a story. She impulsively quit her job over the phone.
Now 38 and a career coach in Charlotte, N.C., here’s what she wishes her 21-year-old self had known: “How to manage my expectations, learn about office politics and realize that perhaps I didn’t know it all at 21.”
via Fresh Out of College and Fumbling Through a First Job – NYTimes.com.
