James Reed

And he said, oh, they're giving me shares.

And I said, well, look at their accounts, the shares aren't worth anything, are you sure?

And anyway, he ended up coming back.

But it was sort of interesting to me that he'd made these decisions without evaluating the financial health of the business.

And you can do that quite easily.

You can look up, I mean, in the UK at least,

publicly available information on companies is easy to access through CompaniesHouse.

So one question in my mind is how do you make good career decisions when you don't know what your end goal is, which is not unusual.

I mean, who doesn't?

Who does?

Is it reasonable to have an end goal?

You're not going to find out.

This is music to my ears because it's very much along the same lines that I wrote about in the book Life's Work.

Which is there behind you.

12 proven ways to fast track your career, which got lots of career hacks in that I learned along the way.

No, I think that's really good advice because in the end, it's a very personal thing.

You know, what is it that motivates us?

And where does our internal sort of energy come from?

Because that's what's most likely to power us forwards.

Well, we have a saying at Read that success is as easy as pie.