Latest / Chef's PSA Podcast / Getting Jobs, Leaving Jobs and Finding Your Career Path Ep. 68
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- 0:00Hello chefs, This is Chef's PSA podcast.
- 0:01I'm your host, Andre and Tara. On today's episode, we're going
- 0:04to talk about getting the job and finding your career path.
- 0:08Stay tuned. So before we get started, I'm
- 0:22going to give you a brief update for those of you that were
- 0:24listening last week. I was talking about kitchen rust
- 0:26and how I've been working at Tilly's at Camp Lucy as the chef
- 0:31in residence, working in the kitchen with the team, cooking
- 0:34food, writing menus. It's been a lot of fun and I'm
- 0:36still there through mid November.
- 0:38So if you happen to be in the area and you want to go eat, go
- 0:40check it out. It's upscale dying.
- 0:42It's not tasting menu only. It's a la carte restaurant, but
- 0:46it's fun. It allows me to cook.
- 0:48It allows me to see if I can still walk the talk, which I can
- 0:52Found that out really quick. It took me about 3 days and then
- 0:57I was back in it like I had never left.
- 1:00Well, it's like if I had never left 2/2 until two years ago,
- 1:03right? I'm joking, but here's something
- 1:06new. I'm on Facebook now, so I really
- 1:08don't like Facebook. If I'm being honest with you, I
- 1:10like Instagram. I don't.
- 1:12I don't know what's up with threads.
- 1:13I don't think anyone's on there. It's like a it's a ghost town.
- 1:16You post something and a week later someone likes it.
- 1:19Just one person though. Thank you.
- 1:21Threads. I think threads.
- 1:23Right now it's $0.02 to tell, but right now it's not shaping
- 1:26up to the first week worth of hype when everyone's saying that
- 1:29X was dead. I don't think X is dead at all.
- 1:32Hopefully threads makes it come back anyway.
- 1:34But what are we talking about? We're talking about Facebook.
- 1:35I'm on Facebook now, so Coppola chefs, PSA on Facebook.
- 1:39Don't message me on Facebook because I post and ghost.
- 1:41I don't. I don't hang out on Facebook
- 1:42because I don't really like it. If I'm being honest with you,
- 1:44it's not, it's not the most interesting platform.
- 1:47You know, if I was going to be honest, I would say X is
- 1:50probably the most interesting platform.
- 1:53It's like a dumpster fire. You don't know what you're going
- 1:55to see on there, but Instagram is pretty, pretty tan.
- 1:58You're going to see some pretty food pictures.
- 2:00Tik Tok's more the same, but X is like Wild West.
- 2:04You don't know what you're going to bump into there.
- 2:05But the chef community is not there.
- 2:07And I'm on, I'm on X slash Twitter, whatever you want to
- 2:10call it. So go find me there.
- 2:12Because even though it is exciting, the culinary community
- 2:17is pretty quiet. It's almost nonexistent.
- 2:19It's like chefs don't have anything to say.
- 2:20What's going on if you're not posting a pretty food picture, I
- 2:23know you all have opinions. I talked to you all.
- 2:26So if you want to move the industry forward that happens
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- 3:03which is also a companion to a three-part series I did on Food
- 3:06Cost. You should go listen to those.
- 3:07You should also download those free ebooks.
- 3:09No one else has given you this shit.
- 3:11Just me. You're welcome.
- 3:12Where's my thanks Anyway? We digress.
- 3:15Let's get into it. I did an episode a while back
- 3:17about is the industry, the culinary industry a sinking
- 3:20ship? I got a lot of commentary in my
- 3:23DM, people emailing me, messaging me saying that this is
- 3:27a really important subject and I should expand upon it.
- 3:29But they also wanted me to expand upon the career path.
- 3:33So I figured today I would talk about the career path and also
- 3:37maybe if I could get in some people's ear and influence your
- 3:41decision. Talk about how to leave jobs as
- 3:44well. We need to increase
- 3:46professionalism if we want the industry to get better.
- 3:48I don't have a magic wand. I can't wave it and give
- 3:50everyone a raise. That's not how this works and
- 3:52just a chef podcaster these days.
- 3:55But I can give you advice on things that I think would help
- 3:58the industry take an altruistic approach, not a selfish
- 4:02approach. So I get messages on the Q&A.
- 4:04So I do the Cigar Sunday Q&A on Instagram.
- 4:07For those of you that don't know, if you don't follow me on
- 4:08Instagram, every Sunday about 6:00 PM Central Time, I do a Q&A
- 4:14where I smoke a cigar and I answer your questions.
- 4:17It's my opportunity to engage with the community.
- 4:19One of the repeat questions I get is when will I know when I'm
- 4:23ready. Another one that I get is, is it
- 4:26better for me to work in this type of restaurant or this type
- 4:31of restaurant? Usually it's like fine dining
- 4:34versus casual. And half the time I have no idea
- 4:36what they mean by fine dining. A lot of people say they work in
- 4:38fine dining and I don't know if they do.
- 4:40I think it's just upscale dining or it's not casual or sometimes
- 4:44it's like upscale, maybe casual, but when I think of fine dining,
- 4:48I think of like tasting menu or white tablecloth, sommelier in
- 4:53the restaurant, coursed out menus.
- 4:55That's what I think about when I think of fine dining.
- 4:57I think about it more in this form of service and ambience
- 5:01that I do in food, because you could have amazing food in a
- 5:03casual setting. But that's not fine dining.
- 5:06Maybe it is fine dining. Anyway, we digress.
- 5:09Where were we? And people also ask me how they
- 5:12should plan out their career. These are all good questions.
- 5:15I answer them a lot tonight. I feel like this is the number
- 5:18one question on a lot of people's minds is where am I
- 5:21going with this? And I think that's where we
- 5:23begin. That's the most important
- 5:24question. What do you want to be when you
- 5:26grow up? In a lot of my mentor meetings,
- 5:28that's a question that I ask a lot of people is what do you
- 5:31want to be when you grow up? And some of the people that I
- 5:32mentor are not young kids. Sometimes they're my age or
- 5:37older and I'm still mentoring them.
- 5:39It doesn't matter how old you are.
- 5:42It's about thinking about that question.
- 5:44What do you want to be when you grow up?
- 5:46What is the ideal state in your career look like when you think
- 5:50about what your maximum potential you could achieve is?
- 5:53What is it that is the first step before you take any other
- 5:57jobs? And then I'm not saying you
- 5:59can't change your mind because you might work in other
- 6:02restaurants or you might see something or the industry trends
- 6:05change or sometimes you're forced into a situation, then
- 6:08you change your mind. But if you haven't changed your
- 6:10mind, I think early on it's important to determine what kind
- 6:13of chef you want to be. If you're still in culinary
- 6:15school, think about that. Do you want to be a three
- 6:18Michelin star chef? Do you want to have the best
- 6:20barbecue restaurant? Do you want to be the chef of a
- 6:23cruise ship? Do you want to be a private
- 6:25chef? Because they're all different.
- 6:27And once you determine what kind of chef you want to be, working
- 6:30in different styles of kitchens doesn't necessarily get you
- 6:34closer. Yes, it's all cooking, you're
- 6:35working with a knife, pots and pans.
- 6:37But culturally and systematically, a lot of these
- 6:40restaurants are different. Even cuisine wise, you're not
- 6:43going to learn about BBQ working on a cruise ship, most likely.
- 6:47I don't. At least I don't think so.
- 6:49It's really important to be sniper specific and write down
- 6:53what your career goal is. What do you want to be when you
- 6:56grow up? Once that's determined, all your
- 6:59efforts should be made on working in those types of
- 7:02restaurants. Because if you want to be a
- 7:04three Michelin star chef, the only way you're going to learn
- 7:07how to become a three Michelin star chef is working in three
- 7:10Michelin star restaurants. If you want to be the best
- 7:13barbecue chef in the world, the only way that you're going to
- 7:16achieve that is by working in great BBQ restaurants.
- 7:21If you want to learn how to become a private chef and run a
- 7:25private chef company, you need to get experience working for
- 7:29private chefs or in catering companies.
- 7:31All of that is relevant to experience.
- 7:33And if you want to be the chef entrepreneur, then you need to
- 7:37work under entrepreneurs to learn the business side of it.
- 7:41A lot of chefs make this mistake.
- 7:43They want to be chef entrepreneurs but only focus on
- 7:46the cooking aspect. And yes, the cooking is
- 7:49important, but if you're trying to have a restaurant empire, you
- 7:53need to have the marketing business acumen, the financial
- 7:57skills that go with it. Because time spent working on
- 8:01the cruise ship is not preparing you to be the food truck owner,
- 8:05work in that specific industry, work in that specific category
- 8:08of restaurant. The next thing that you want to
- 8:10do is take action. A lot of people think about the
- 8:13type of chef that they want to become, and then they're too
- 8:15afraid to act upon it. They talk about it, they
- 8:17complain about it. They say opportunity has it not.
- 8:20They don't know anyone. They have no connections.
- 8:23You have to act on it. The person who acts has every
- 8:25advantage over the person who doesn't.
- 8:27I saw this quote the other day and it was really good, so I'm
- 8:30going to steal it. It was If you act now, in six
- 8:33months, you could have six months worth of progress.
- 8:37And if you don't, in six months, you'll have six months worth of
- 8:43excuses. Think about that.
- 8:44The compounding effect of action is a superpower that a lot of
- 8:48people don't realize. If you wanted to learn a
- 8:50language, and you know I'm someone who practices a language
- 8:53every single day is I'm able to speak fluently in other
- 8:55languages because I practice them daily, only for about 15
- 8:58minutes a day. But I still practice them, as
- 9:00opposed to the person who wants to learn it but is waiting for
- 9:03the right time to take a class that they never take.
- 9:07And they have a bunch of excuses to why they don't take it.
- 9:10The same thing applies in your culinary career.
- 9:13If you want to work in a specific type of kitchen, start
- 9:16messaging those chefs sending your applications.
- 9:18Be willing to go work for them. Don't think you're not good
- 9:20enough, because that's a trap in your own mind, because trust me,
- 9:26you are good enough. There's there's bad cooks even
- 9:29in the greatest kitchens. Trust me, I have friends that
- 9:32work in some of the best kitchens in the world who tell
- 9:35me that their cooks aren't good. Just because they work in a
- 9:37great restaurant or they work under a great chef doesn't
- 9:41necessarily mean that they're also great.
- 9:44So don't think just because the specific chef for the specific
- 9:48type of cuisine might be out of your comfort zone or they're at
- 9:51a very high level that you're not ready.
- 9:53Trust me, there's someone in that kitchen that's also not
- 9:55ready, but they were unafraid to act.
- 9:58Take this example, 2 cooks in your kitchen, The best cook and
- 10:02the worst cook. The best cook in your kitchen is
- 10:05afraid to leave, and the worst cook in your kitchen leaves to
- 10:09go work in the best restaurant in the world.
- 10:11Let's just say Noma for example. Now, one year goes by, the
- 10:15person's been working at Noma, even though they weren't the
- 10:17best cook in your kitchen, they've been working in the best
- 10:19restaurant. They come back, who's the better
- 10:21cook now? Who's the better chef?
- 10:23Now, objectively, one would say the person who took the risk and
- 10:26went to the best restaurant in the world and works there for a
- 10:28year even though they weren't the best, versus the person who
- 10:31was the best cook in the kitchen.
- 10:34That's why I always say it's better to be the worst cook in
- 10:36the best kitchen than the best cook and the worst.
- 10:39Don't be afraid to take action of your career.
- 10:41You're in the driver's seat. You have to write the script.
- 10:45No one's going to come and save you.
- 10:46No one's going to come and do it for you.
- 10:48The next question that people always ask me is when will I be
- 10:50ready? When will I be ready to take on
- 10:53the leadership role? When will I be ready to move up?
- 10:55Well, when you're planning your career, you should also plan out
- 10:58your career progress. I really would advise people to
- 11:00stay within a year or two years in position before they move on.
- 11:05In the old days, it was 18 months to two years before you
- 11:08could be promoted and usually that was because it would take
- 11:11you about a year to get good at your job.
- 11:12And then you're the person that was investing their time and you
- 11:15would want their return on investment their Roy, which
- 11:18would usually take about six months to another year.
- 11:21So I'm going to train you for a year and then I'm going to get
- 11:23six months of you performing at a high level.
- 11:25So 18 months was typically the standard or two years I get it.
- 11:30In today's world, that's probably not realistic.
- 11:33But still, I think at least a year in position or two years in
- 11:36position is good. I know sometimes I look at
- 11:38resumes, and when someone's worked at places less than a
- 11:42year, I wonder how much they really learned there.
- 11:44And sometimes I'm reluctant to hire them, not all the time.
- 11:46Sometimes there's very good reasons why they leave these
- 11:48restaurants. Covid's a good one.
- 11:50But other times people just leave these restaurants because
- 11:52they think they've learned everything they need to learn.
- 11:54And trust me, you haven't. You could continue to learn
- 11:57every single day from good services and bad services,
- 12:00sometimes bad chefs and bad services.
- 12:03You could learn more from. You learn what not to do.
- 12:05You learn how to overcome. When you work in really good
- 12:08kitchens and everything's just humming, sometimes you actually
- 12:11don't learn as much as you think you do because you're never
- 12:14short staffed, You're never out of ingredients.
- 12:16Everything's always running smoothly.
- 12:18You're not really challenged with adversity, but when you
- 12:21work in tough kitchens, you're challenged daily.
- 12:23So maybe you're not learning about the most Swannier or
- 12:26finesse food, but you're learning how to overcome
- 12:28difficult situations that deal with adversity on the daily,
- 12:31which like I said, sometimes that's more important,
- 12:35especially when you get into leadership roles.
- 12:37Towards the end of my career, people won't always tell me
- 12:39you're so calm. You know, the wheels could be
- 12:41falling off the bus and I wouldn't be freaking out.
- 12:43And they would ask me, how do you stay so calm in in the
- 12:45chaos? And I would just say, I've kind
- 12:49of been in these situations before.
- 12:51I've experienced every single bad situation in a kitchen that
- 12:54people could throw at me. The call offs, the pipe burst,
- 12:58the walkin goes down, the order didn't show up, the menu roll
- 13:02out. Whatever the case may be, I've
- 13:04experienced them all. So I don't really freak out.
- 13:06I'm used to it. I've been in tough kitchens.
- 13:08So I've learned a lot in those tough kitchens.
- 13:11So back to my point, I wouldn't advise you to jump ship
- 13:14immediately when things get hard.
- 13:16There might be some learning lessons in there for you.
- 13:19Now, if you've been working in a place and you're looking to get
- 13:21promoted and you're ready to move into leadership, but
- 13:24they're not moving you up, you might be missing something that
- 13:28you're unaware of. Or look, let me be honest,
- 13:31sometimes they just don't like you.
- 13:32And if you're working in a place where they don't like you, it's
- 13:34going to be very hard to move up.
- 13:36Likability goes a long way, right?
- 13:38Wrong. For indifferent it is.
- 13:40It is a fact. Put yourself in this position.
- 13:43You don't like someone? Think of that person that you
- 13:45don't like. Are you going to promote them to
- 13:48be your right hand so you could spend more time with them?
- 13:51I mean, there's someone listening right now like I
- 13:54would. I'm very honest and ethical.
- 13:55I'm always fair. OK, well, you would, but most
- 13:58people wouldn't. And that's the reality of the
- 14:01world. So sometimes when you're not
- 14:02moving up, I think it's important to ask the chef why.
- 14:05And when they tell you why, write it down and take action on
- 14:07the things that they tell you. Now.
- 14:09Yes. Does it suck when you don't get
- 14:11promoted where you're at? Yes, of course it does.
- 14:14But that doesn't mean you have to stay.
- 14:15If you feel you are ready and you've been passed over several
- 14:18times, then go on and see if you are.
- 14:21Prove it to yourself. Prove everyone wrong.
- 14:23Maybe you're right. Maybe you are ready.
- 14:26I don't know. Maybe the chef right.
- 14:28Maybe you're not. And you'll find out.
- 14:30But there's only one way to do it.
- 14:31Don't expect to be good in leadership roles immediately
- 14:34when you're thrown in. Some people are natural leaders,
- 14:35but for the most part, there should be a lot of things that
- 14:37you don't know. That's why you have chefs above
- 14:39you. You know, if you're a sous chef,
- 14:41you hopefully have a head chef above you that you can go to for
- 14:44guidance. So when you get into a tough
- 14:46situation, you ask them if you if your head chef is one of
- 14:49those people that don't like to provide guidance.
- 14:52Hopefully you have a mentor. Every chef should have a mentor,
- 14:55and I probably should have mentioned that earlier in the
- 14:57episode. Find a mentor early in your
- 15:00career that could guide you. Once you determine what kind of
- 15:02chef you want to be when you grow up, they could help point
- 15:04you in the right path and make sure you're not wasting time
- 15:07getting experience and things that are completely irrelevant
- 15:10to what you want to do. The next point I want to bring
- 15:12up is when you leave. A lot of people leave jobs for
- 15:15money because they're going to get a dollar here.
- 15:16They're going to get a fancy title, and I can tell you that
- 15:19just because they're going to give you a little bit more money
- 15:21sometimes, it's not always worth leaving.
- 15:24Because I'm going to give you an example.
- 15:26Let's say where you're at, you're being mentored and you
- 15:28have a very good chef and maybe you're not making $0.50 more,
- 15:32like they're going to pay you at the other place.
- 15:34But at the other place, the chef's not going to mentor you.
- 15:37It's not a great environment. Why would you leave if you're
- 15:40working for a great chef that's taking the time to mentor and
- 15:45develop you? Not a lot of people have access
- 15:47to that. And is $0.50 worth the tradeoff?
- 15:49I don't know. I don't know your financial
- 15:51situation? Maybe it is worth it, but I
- 15:53could tell you long term, it's usually not worth it.
- 15:55You want to have someone investing in you, anyone that's
- 15:59willing to invest in you, and take their time and give it to
- 16:01you, listen and be thankful for it because not everyone has
- 16:05access to a chef that's willing to do that.
- 16:07So personally, would I leave a job for a few bucks more if I
- 16:12had a great boss? No, I would not.
- 16:14Because I know when you develop these relationships and if your
- 16:17boss is one of those movers and shakers, that's going to move up
- 16:20as well and they're mentoring you when they move up, a lot of
- 16:23times they move you up, but they move you with them to the next
- 16:26restaurant. So their career growth is tied
- 16:29to your career growth where the place where you may be going,
- 16:33that's not the case. So you got to be smart about
- 16:35these decisions sometimes. I've seen chefs latch onto other
- 16:39chefs for an entire career and they keep moving up with them
- 16:41because the other chef keeps moving up and they like them.
- 16:43They'll take care of you. Why would you give that up?
- 16:45We should also talk about professionalism when it comes to
- 16:48leaving jobs. I think the standard is 2 weeks
- 16:50notice, right? If you're being professional,
- 16:53you should give two weeks notice, minimum.
- 16:56A lot of people give longer a month, two months, three months.
- 17:00I think the higher up in the position that you are, the
- 17:02longer notice, that's expected. I know when I left my job to
- 17:05retire, I think I gave him almost six months to a year
- 17:08notice that I was leaving. They knew we had talked about it
- 17:11at length. They knew it was coming and I
- 17:13helped them through the transition.
- 17:16If you have a good relationship with people, you want to help
- 17:18them through the transition. You don't want to burn a bridge.
- 17:21Now I know because I've posted on Chef's PS:.
- 17:24A the right thing to do is give two weeks notice and people get
- 17:26really upset. Well, if they fire you, are they
- 17:28going to give you 2 weeks notice?
- 17:30Well, no, of course not. But you sometimes can also fire
- 17:33your employer, right? If you work in an environment
- 17:35that's toxic, abusive, unethical, you're going to just
- 17:39walk out the job, right? You're not going to show up the
- 17:41next day. If it is an environment that is
- 17:45just terrible, you're going to fire them on the spot.
- 17:48Well, the same thing happens if you're that toxic, abusive
- 17:50employee. Guess what?
- 17:51Sometimes you get fired on the spot too.
- 17:53It's just the way it works. But if you're working for good
- 17:56people and you want to remain professional and you don't want
- 17:59to burn a bridge, you should give at least two weeks notice,
- 18:02minimum. Now, it doesn't mean that
- 18:03they're going to honor it, and I know a lot of chefs are like,
- 18:06once you give notice, that's your last day.
- 18:08I'm not like that. I don't condone that.
- 18:10But I know a lot of chefs think that way.
- 18:12Not my opinion, but hey, to each their own.
- 18:16I would still offer the two weeks because I want to remain a
- 18:18professional. And when you're leaving a job,
- 18:21remember they remember how you left.
- 18:23They don't remember anything that came before.
- 18:25They remember how you closed work your first day like your
- 18:28last day as they say, unless your first day sucked, don't do
- 18:32that. Here's an interesting thought
- 18:33experiment that I heard. Two different people, both 60
- 18:36years old. One of them was bad for 55 years
- 18:40of their life, terrible person. And of the last five years of
- 18:43their life, they turned good and did a lot of charity work,
- 18:46philanthropy, helped people and then they died.
- 18:50The other person was good for 55 years of their life and then
- 18:54turned really bitter and started stealing and robbing and hurting
- 18:57people. The last five years of their
- 18:59life, which one was the better person?
- 19:01Think about that for a second. Was it the person who was good
- 19:05for 55 years and bad the the last five?
- 19:09Or was it the person who was bad for 55 years and good the last
- 19:12five? The interesting thing is when
- 19:14you ask most people, they will say the person who was good the
- 19:17last five years of their life was the good person.
- 19:20It's a very interesting thought experiment.
- 19:22I don't know what you thought, but most people answer the way I
- 19:25said. So think about that.
- 19:27If you're leaving a job, what they're going to remember is how
- 19:30you closed out. That's the final impression they
- 19:32get of your performance. So you want to make sure you
- 19:34leave on a good note. And trust me, these bridges
- 19:37always have to get crossed again.
- 19:39You're going to come across, someone's going to call you up
- 19:41and say, hey, did you work with so and so.
- 19:43You don't want to burn bridges. Don't be that person.
- 19:45When you're early in your career, you think no one knows
- 19:48each other. They do.
- 19:49Trust me. Everyone talks.
- 19:50We all call each other. We all send group text.
- 19:52You know this person. Resumes get floated behind the
- 19:55scenes. It's like the black market of
- 19:59chef resumes. People are saying things about
- 20:01you, so you want to make sure that they are saying positive
- 20:03things about you, give a proper notice and if you don't want to,
- 20:06hey, be prepared for the consequences, good or bad,
- 20:09right? Last thing I'll say.
- 20:10When you're leaving a job, the grass is not always greater.
- 20:13Sometimes you're leaving a job because you don't like this
- 20:16person and you don't like that person.
- 20:17There's that one lazy cook and the server who rings in
- 20:19everything at once and pockets the tickets and the Hostess
- 20:22seats the entire restaurant. So you think, well, I'm going to
- 20:25go work over here because they don't have those problems.
- 20:27Those problems are everywhere. The faces change, but the
- 20:31problems remain the same. The grass is not green or
- 20:34anywhere else. And sometimes when you're in a
- 20:37really good kitchen and if you've been there for a long
- 20:39time, you lose sight of how good that kitchen is.
- 20:42I know I like to believe that I run a tight ship, and I've had
- 20:46chefs that leave and then come back because they didn't
- 20:49appreciate it while they were there.
- 20:51But then they leave and come back and say, you know what?
- 20:53I really miss this kitchen. I didn't realize how good we
- 20:55have it. And I was the Tye of person.
- 20:57Like, if I really liked you, I would always be supportive.
- 21:00Like go, go somewhere else, and if you want to come back, come
- 21:04back if I liked them. And the reason I would do that
- 21:07is because a lot of times, like, I knew they didn't know what
- 21:09they were getting themselves into.
- 21:10I knew how good the kitchen was, and I knew where they were
- 21:12going, and I knew that they might miss it.
- 21:14So I wanted to keep those doors open.
- 21:16I wanted to prevent them from burning a bridge.
- 21:18The grass is not greener. The same problems exist
- 21:21everywhere. Like I said, when you're in a
- 21:22good kitchen, you might not even be aware of it until you leave.
- 21:26There's an expression that a fish doesn't realize it's in
- 21:29water until you take it out and then it can't breathe.
- 21:31Just like we don't depreciate the atmosphere until we're
- 21:33underwater and can't breathe, the things we take for granted.
- 21:36Now we started out the show with saying find out what type of
- 21:39chef you want to be when you grow up.
- 21:41Eventually you're going to achieve that and you're going to
- 21:44be that chef that you dreamed about.
- 21:46What do you do when you get there?
- 21:47When you get there, enjoy the moment, appreciate it.
- 21:51Don't be looking for the next thing right away, and make sure
- 21:53you give back. Start mentoring your staff.
- 21:56Start teaching them all the things that you wish you knew on
- 21:59your journey. If you're not developing the
- 22:01next generation, then what? What are we doing if we're not
- 22:03helping them right? Especially if you're in a
- 22:05successful spot, make sure you're giving back anyway.
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