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The Importance of A Simple Thank You
February 8, 2008 | 1 Comment
On 2000 my career had a dramatical change. I moved from being a software engineer (code developer) to being a pre-sales engineer (a field engineer presenting, customizing, demonstrating, and convincing customers my product is the right choice). Two people enabled that opportunity. While I kept in contact with one of them, since he stayed with the company, the other one left the company before I joined the new position.
For seven years I developed my career on the pre-sales area. I learned skills I hadn’t developed in all of my previous years of existence (I wish people knew a bit more about business and sales than most do). The jump enabled the independent life I started in 2007. I owe those two guys my career and most of my prosperity as much as I owe it to myself.
We where able to get in touch through LinkedIn.com 7 years later. We did the regular contact procedure but left it at that. A few months later (this morning), he finally asked about how did it went with the new position I took then. I told him the whole story, and I thanked him emphatically about how he helped me. At the same time I felt ashamed I hadn’t thanked him before. We may even want to exchange notes on entrepreneurship, he is also an independent consultant (in a slightly different field).
Note to myself: thank people as soon as possible.
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