
Career Pivots-You are never too old
For all the talk of making it happen, there was never any real success in getting out-of-work coal miners to learn how to code. While the coding skillset can be taught (as we demonstrated at General Assembly), the temperament cannot. If you don’t want to sit down in front of a computer for hours at a time playing with math and logic, no class is going to get you to do it.
The good news is that most white collar professionals DO have the temperament to learn new white collar skills. Most will not. Once you are a few years into your career, taking a step back to learn a new function area is not something that many people choose to do.
When I was at P&G 20+ years ago we were told that in order to be a senior leader with the company it was important to do a “rotation” in three function areas: marketing, sales and finance. The company did it’s best to encourage it — if you switched between those roles you did not take a pay-cut to step back in seniority. But the alternative to switching from Assistant Brand Manager (marketing) to Account Manager (sales) usually wasn’t pay-parity. The people who instead charged ahead in marketing would not be far from being Brand Managers. It takes a very special kind of ambitious 25-year old to choose not to be promoted with their peers in order to develop more breadth.
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Πηγή: marketingbs.substack.com