5 Red Flags I Missed Early in My Career
My First Job Nightmare: Toxic Banking, Guilt Trips, and Career Red Flags Why your first professional experience often teaches you exactly who you don’t want to become After I graduated from university, my first job was a boring job as a loan officer for a bank. The training was terrible. Only three days. They gave me a bunch of theory, and showed me only a couple of times what to press in the program for practice. The program was not intuitive. You had to press random buttons in random places, which made the process of memorizing how to work with the program very difficult. Plus, the lack of practice was scary. We heard this phrase during training: “We must do everything possible to make the client take from our bank.” Photo by Gabrielle Henderson on Unsplash The workplace was in furniture stores, and you had to constantly change places. The schedule was inconvenient, 4 working days and 2 days off. So meeting with friends was an option, since they had normal regular sc...