Author: Uwuidia

How to Network as an Introvert Without Feeling Fake or Drained

  • 1 hour ago

Networking can sound like it was designed for extroverts. Walk into a room full of strangers. Shake hands. Introduce yourself to everyone. Exchange contacts. Talk about what you do. Follow up afterward. For an introvert, that can sound less like career development and more like punishment. But effective networking does not require you to become

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I Left a Telecom Executive Job in Nigeria at 42 to Start Over in Canada—Here’s What Really Happened episode 3

  • 2 months ago

The answer came a few weeks later, though not in the way I had hoped. One afternoon, after another unsuccessful interview, I received a phone call from a recruitment agency. It wasn’t for the management role I had applied for. Instead, they wanted to know if I was available to start work in a warehouse

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I Left a Telecom Executive Job in Nigeria at 42 to Start Over in Canada—Here’s What Really Happened episode 2

  • 2 months ago

Seven months can feel like a lifetime when measured one video call at a time. At first, we tried to make the distance feel normal. Every evening after work, I would prop my phone against a mug on the dining table while the children gathered around to talk to their mother. She wanted to know

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I Left a Telecom Executive Job in Nigeria at 42 to Start Over in Canada—Here’s What Really Happened

  • 2 months ago

There was a time I walked into meetings where people stood up to greet me. My days revolved around budgets, operational reports, network performance, and strategy sessions. My phone never stopped ringing because someone, somewhere, needed my approval. Now I was waiting for a scanner to assign me pallets to move. Life has a strange

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