Bad decisions make good stories.
I read this recently and it’s probably very true in many if not most cases.
In a career sense, I’m not sure I’d want to have made bad decisions that most likely cost me a job(s) in exchange for having a story or two to make people laugh for a few seconds, though.
Decision-making is a big part of your career and in each job you hold. When to leave a job is certainly one big decision that people will most likely make numerous times.
I’ve dealt with people who had resigned from a job before they’d actually signed the contract for their new job and then had their job offer with the new company rescinded…meaning they weren’t getting the new job and suddenly didn’t have the old one either.
I’ve worked with people who had a job offer for a fulltime position that they turned down because they wanted to remain working on contract…and were then still out of work 6 months later because they couldn’t find any contract work.
I also know about people who lie about stuff on their resume, get caught, and then months later I see their resume still posted on the Internet…still full of the lies that got them into trouble in the first place.
In these cases and in many others, bad decisions make good stories but usually only in the eyes of the people relating the stories and not the person starring in them.
