Pursue The Passion
902 posts
Written by RHILLANE Ayoub TLDR: Eighteen months into running my own agency out of Tangier, I lost my two biggest clients in the same month and came within one signed offer letter of shutting it down for a stable paycheck. I turned the offer down, rebuilt the client base from almost nothing, and the decision to…
Written by RHILLANE Ayoub TLDR: I started RMD in Tangier with two clients and a laptop, and by month eight I had one client left and no way to make payroll. The thing that kept the company alive was not a clever pivot; it was refusing to shrink the promise I had made to the first…
Written by Sergio Franco Finding a job that pays the bills is one thing. Finding work that fits your interests, strengths, and ambitions is harder. For skilled workers, the best career match often comes from looking beyond a job title and understanding what kind of work keeps them engaged. In my experience working around hiring,…
Written by Lilach Bullock The year my body and my business both gave out Covid killed the agency I had built. My back, which had been giving me warning shots for years, finally gave out: a herniated disc that put me in a wheelchair. From there I moved to a walking stick. Somewhere in that…
Written by Mark Dixon Over the years, plenty of young people have walked into our hangar at Boorowa. Each one holds a printout about the global pilot shortage. So they arrive believing the world needs hundreds of thousands of new pilots. Naturally, they treat a commercial licence as a golden ticket. Then they ask how…
Written by Lilach Bullock The refused four-day week I asked my employer for one day back a week after my daughter was born and they said no. I was a training manager by then, after years as a legal secretary, and the answer felt final in a way that made staying pointless. I did not…
Written by Chris Roberts A manufacturing career becomes worth pursuing long term when employees can see a future beyond the job they were hired to do. That sounds simple, but it is something many manufacturers still overlook when they struggle with retention. In plastics and other manufacturing environments, I have seen good operators leave not…
Written by Andrew Antokhin Hi! I’m Andrew Antokhin. My journey began as an agency intern, and within a year, I advanced to leading a team of specialists. After expanding my skill set in-house and through independent consulting, I founded my own agency, Inverox Digital. Today, our focus is on scaling international operations, developing custom marketing…
Written by Vardan Ter-Antonyan I grew up in Armenia during the difficult years that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union. The country was newly independent, but daily life felt uncertain. Electricity and natural gas were often unavailable. Winters were bitterly cold, and darkness arrived early. As a child, I learned to do my homework…
Written by Lazaro Carlos Healthcare workers are often told to “follow their passion,” but that advice can feel impractical when the bills still need to be paid and the next career move needs to make sense. After years of working around healthcare hiring and workforce decisions, I’ve found that the better question is not simply,…
Written by Carolyn Vasquez I started Ready Rental Cleaning because Los Angeles has more Airbnb and VRBO listings than hosts have hours in the day. Somebody has to turn a rental around between checkout and check-in: strip the beds, reset the kitchen, make the bathroom look like nobody has ever showered in it. I did…
Written by Jason DeLa Luna Most career advice focuses on the individual: build new skills, improve your résumé, expand your network, and work harder. All of those things matter. But after years of working around hiring and career decisions, I have seen another factor make a meaningful difference: having someone experienced enough to help you…
Written by Nassira Sennoune TLDR: Three years ago I left a generalist SEO role with a bigger title for a narrower one, doing SEO for a single luxury real estate brokerage in Marrakech. Everyone around me called it a step down. It was the best career decision I have made, and the reason is not what…
Written by Ihor Lavrenenko Finding a job can feel strangely inefficient. A qualified candidate may send dozens of applications and hear almost nothing, while companies say they cannot find enough people with the right skills. That disconnect is one reason staffing agencies continue to play a large role in the U.S. job market. They connect…
Written by Roger Lopez The worst time to start thinking about a critical hire is when the person currently doing the job has already resigned. Yet that is exactly how many companies operate. A key leader gives notice, a technical specialist announces retirement, or a high-performing manager is suddenly promoted. Only then does the organization…
Written by Jason Keeley I spent years of my life chasing a stopwatch and a scoreboard before I ever chased a paycheck. Long before I built Quoted into a daily source of motivation for thousands of readers, I was a collegiate athlete learning lessons the hard way — in early mornings, in losses that stung…
Written by Ankush Gupta There is a particular kind of quiet that comes over you when you are looking at something on a screen that should not exist. Mine arrived on an ordinary morning. I was checking on one of the publications we run, the way you check on things you have built, half paying…
Written by Brian Jackson Passion can get a skilled worker through a difficult shift. It rarely keeps someone in the trade for 10 or 20 years by itself. What makes the difference is whether that passion can be turned into a career with increasing responsibility, better earnings, stronger skills, and a clear sense of where…
Written by Callum Gracie In early March 2020, my calendar was full. Two weeks later, every booking had vanished. Back then I played trumpet and saxophone for a living. Work came from weddings, corporate nights, and band gigs around Canberra. Then the phone started ringing with cancellations instead of enquiries. The timeline still sticks with…
Written by Nick Sawinyh The standard career advice is to find the thing you love and build a career around it. I’ve now worked across mining infrastructure, lending protocols, market data, financial tooling, and public transit data, and I think that advice has the direction of causation backwards. In every one of those areas I…
Delegation can make or break client delivery timelines and quality standards. This article brings together proven tactics from industry experts who have refined their handoff processes across project types and team structures. Each method addresses a specific risk point where work changes hands, ensuring accountability remains…
25 experts
Accurate project timelines remain one of the hardest challenges in client work, often derailed by hidden dependencies and unpredictable stakeholder behavior. This article compiles practical habits from experienced project managers who have refined their estimation methods through years of trial and error. The twenty-five techniques below…
25 experts
Raising client rates without damaging relationships requires a strategic approach grounded in transparency and proven value. This article draws on insights from industry experts to outline practical methods for communicating price increases while maintaining trust. The strategies covered range from timing announcements around demonstrated results…
24 experts
Most project failures trace back to misaligned expectations at the start. Industry experts agree that the first conversation with a client determines whether both sides will celebrate the same finish line or argue over different definitions of success. This article shares practical techniques from seasoned professionals…
25 experts
