Parachute vs Performance
Every fighter pilot knows it's a very nice thing to have a parachute. Their smart ... as are your preparedness tips. But every fighter pilot also knows that it's even better if that parachute is strapped onto a state of the art performance machine ... and I'm not talking about your jet (the company you work for) ... I'm talking about YOU!
Your tips for dealing with the ups and downs of our industry, to my eyes, while all wise and reasonable ... lack "teeth" for dealing with the real world. I'm not young. I haven't been for a long time. And I took your approch to protecting myself from the ups and downs of our industry for a long time. They weren't enough. Then it hit me ... I was completely missing the point.
We can't completely control what happens to our company or our industry. We can't control whether or not we might someday end up working for a bone head. THOSE things lie always beyond our control. But what we can control is the impression people have of us, as professionals. Your entire network should KNOW that you are a "state of the art" performance machine, whose made it their business to leave their customers utterly delighted, every time. Do everything you can to make sure that's how your network sees you, inside and outside your firm ... and you're security will have been optimized.
