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I want to share a story today that I’ve been dying to tell — something that happened a few months ago, actually, but that I didn’t learn about until afterward.
Short version, it’s how I (sort of) wound up on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon.
Low-grade viral
This is really a butterfly effect story. It starts a decade ago this month, when I worked for a single day at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
A few hours was all it took. It was 100 percent clear that this was the WRONG job for me. I quit the next morning. I told nobody for nearly a decade.
But then last year I decided: What the heck? Things turned out okay in the long run. What am I afraid of?
So, I wrote about the whole experience for Inc.com. The story went low-grade viral. Then earlier this year, I heard from CBS Sunday Morning.
They were doing a whole show about quit…
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