Geoffrey Hamlyn Of Trepwise: 5 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Switched Careers
An Interview with Phil La Duke
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13 min readSep 27, 2023
A little downtime when you start a new job is a good thing — use it to learn and network. Often when starting a new job, you have days or weeks of excess capacity as your team tries to figure out what to do with you. My first month at Deloitte was basically a lot of extended onboarding sessions and twiddling my thumbs…I was “on the bench.” As a Type A person, not constantly performing made me beyond anxious. In retrospect, I wish I had used the time to reach out to new people on interesting projects, read articles, and more proactively get to know the firm. Once I was staffed on my first project, I was off and running and had scarce time for anything else. Don’t waste your honeymoon period! It only comes once.
