My sophomore year of college, all I thought about was getting an internship. Since my family lives abroad, I knew that if I didn’t secure and establish a lasting career, I would have no choice but to move back home. This internship had to ultimately be a full-time position or give me transferable skills to apply elsewhere—it had to set the stage for my entire career. Sounds like a lot of pressure, doesn’t it?

When I started at TransPerfect, I was terrified. I was hired onto the ContentLabs team with limited experience in content creation, and I knew there was a lot to learn. Being a recent college graduate with a broad business degree, I did not have years of experience to really home in on what I wanted to do as a career. I knew the things I liked doing, but not necessarily what I was good at, or if those areas of interest were even a possible career. 

When you graduate, you walk down the stage, get your diploma, shake some hands, and then get shipped off to “adulthood.” Wouldn’t it be nice if instead of a diploma, they gave us a 500-page manual on how to be an adult? I say this as a 20-year-old college student who is not only studying 18 credits per semester, but also holding a part-time internship at the same time. And don’t even get me started on taxes! It’s hard out here trying to balance everything.

Self-handicapping is defined as a cognitive strategy by which people avoid effort in the hopes of keeping potential failure from hurting self-esteem. Meaning, we may self-sabotage because we are afraid of failure. My question to you is, are you afraid of failure or rejection? How do you work through the fear of failure? Do you avoid the initial emotions that come along with fear? How has that affected your personal and work relationships?

Coming up on my 15-year anniversary at TransPerfect, it is evident that I am not someone who job hops. There are many perks one hears about switching jobs every couple of years: potential increase in rank, potential increase in salary, and maybe a new host of problems that are different from the ones you face now.

In an international organization that doesn’t sleep, there is always something that can be done. But TransPerfect employees recognize that delivering quality results in record time means managing time effectively, strategizing ahead of time, and taking breaks to recover.

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