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“Stick to the knitting – stay with the business that you know.” – Tom Peters and Robert Waterman

Career paths do not always lead us to exactly where we want to go. Many of us take small detours (intended or not) and later in life very often wind up in a career that is very different from what we set out to do. Early in my career I opted to take a huge detour, which was more like an off ramp. Thinking that I always wanted to be a programmer (my education is Accounting and Finance), I took a job that would allow me to get my “foot in the door”. I quickly learned (the hard way) that, not only wasn’t I qualified to be a programmer, I was not very good at it. The “off ramp” scenario can sometimes be “career-threatening” and is very different from the occasional (and somewhat common) detour.