On this episode of Self-Directed, we discuss Mitchell's career journey – from over-achieving high-school with a life-plan to an early startup employee at college. We discuss some of the bumps and bruises collected along the way as a college student, the first few years in the real world, and how he accelerated his career working directly for the CEO of an early-stage company years later.

Lessons for this episode:

-The pressure of feeling like you have to have it all figured out

-How incentives are different in school and business

-How colleges don't actually treat students like customers

-How to approach your first jobs out of college (if you still don't know what you want to do)

-How to determine when it's time to leave and move on

-When to change course and how

-How to approach your career like an early-stage business and iteration cycles for testing different careers

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