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I Saw the Sign
Entrepreneur US
|January - February 2023
by Brooke Schnittman, founder, Coaching With Brooke
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I used to follow other people's advice. I'm so glad I stopped.
It began with my mom. "Be a teacher," she had said, because she was a teacher herself. So I did it. Six years later, I leveled up into a quasi-administrative role and started craving more growth. But I was working at a top school district, where advancement was slow. I thought about leaving for a lesser district, where I could move up faster. That's when everyone I trusted told me: Don't leave. Just wait.
This story is from the January - February 2023 edition of Entrepreneur US.
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