Dan Caplinger

What are the things that are better?

What are the things that aren't quite as what they expected?

What are some of the things that if they had it to do over again, they would change maybe?

And, you know, how are they dealing with the process?

I think that it's important to build that network in advance, both

Outside of work and at work.

And I think people that you work with, I mean, I know, bro, I'm often guilty of this.

People will leave the fool and like, I don't do as good a job as I should keeping in touch with them.

Like maybe LinkedIn tells me to wish them a happy birthday.

And then that's just kind of me feeling, oh, geez, I probably haven't talked to this person for a year.

Doing that is important because it does two things.

One is it gives you that perspective outside of that bubble of your own work.

But two is that it gives you kind of a window into what your future might look like after you decide to make the leap.

And you, knowing who those people are, knowing who your friends and contacts are,

you can draw some conclusions from what they tell you.

Some of it's like, oh boy, I'm just like that person.

And I thought that you would really love that.

And it turns out you don't.

Well, gee, maybe I need to rethink that for myself.

Or yeah, you always wanna do this totally different thing.