Attending My First Career Fair At 50 Years Old

Life lessons in the middle of a job search

B. Wright
Life’s Fair
Published in
5 min readFeb 25, 2024

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I remember working for a company when I was just out of college a few years. There was a vice president in our group that was short in stature, really only an inch shorter than me. He was known for being very demanding and terse in all his requests. Many of the women and some men would giggle under their breath…

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