what it takes to be a real soldier

It is not avoiding or assuming-to-fall-short-in-taking the responsibility that made it easy for what they qualify as performer, achiever, straightforward and decisive person to turn down a well acclaimed job offer in the blink of an eye.

As dramatic as it sounds or as unprofessional as it may seem, it’s the personal interest that mattered here. There is an invisible threshold that I set in achieving my goals in this course – first, am I selling myself short of what I deserve in terms of delegated tasks and equivalent compensation; and second, and more importantly, am I putting relational factors quite at stake for wanting to level up? Casting the score for who I am today and what I have become after five years, I understood better what it takes to be a real soldier – he doesn’t go to any battle halfhearted; otherwise, the whole throng will become their own casualty in the end. Similarly, I can’t see myself competing over a higher position with someone I pay high respect to. It's more than just a professional deal breaker – it is one of the red flags to consider for a rather long term plan.

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