Read Read and Read!

I remember when I was young and my parents telling me how important reading is. I thought they were nuts. Read? That is boring I would tell them. Or I am never going to use reading as a means to make money. I would try to get my hands on the "cliff notes" but that was a suicide mission. If my father every found out that I used "cliff notes" that would be a bad day in the Reilly household with no TV and no hockey for weeks. So nonetheless, I did read quite a bit but never really liked it at all. I don't think many young people liked reading anyway. As I got older, got through college and entered into my professional career, you guessed it I still did not like to read. LOL. But when I was forced to make a career change about 11 years ago a change happened. I did not have a choice but to learn a new career and learn it fast. Going from the Finance Sales Market to Technology was not easy but I attribute my easy transition and success to the tremendous amount of reading I have done over the years. If I heard a new term or a comment or something that I just did not understand I would look it up and study it for hours. In addition, I would ask all of my peers and engineers to let me know what they were reading and studying to enable them to make recommendations on technology solutions and I did the same. And you can probably understand by now that I now LOVE to read and read as much as I possibly can. Mostly industry publications and motivational books. Read, Read and Read. It will benefit you in spades!!

PS: You can also gain some good conversational content from reading. ;)


Shawn