My Next New Adventure with Jethro Jones Transformative Principal 484

<p>Last month I talked about the TBD framework for making career decisions, and as I teased at the end of that episode, I was evaluating a current opportunity for myself.</p> <p>Today, I’m going to walk you through my thought process using the TBD framework.</p> <p>First, a little review, because maybe you don’t listen to every single episode! Gasp!</p> <p>TBD stands for Tribe, Brand, and Domain. I learned about it because a friend shared this article on LinkedIn with me called "[[Tribe, Brand, Domain (TBD)–How to Think about Building Career]] (<a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tribe-brand-domain-tbd-dave-boyce/">link</a>) It is written by David Boyce.</p> <p>This strategy is effective in evaluating where you currently are in your career, and can also be used to evaluate a specific position.</p> <p>The tribe part refers to the people that you are working with. Who are you surrounded by. I had a job just after I graduated high school, and I did not like the people that I was around. The owner seemed super shady, I never trusted my paychecks. My coworkers were very negative and vulgar. I knew that I didn’t want to be around them long term.</p> <p>In this new position I am looking at currently, I thought, who will be there? Who are the people that I’ll work closely with. Thankfully, I’ve known this company for almost 6 years and I have had many interactions so I could feel reasonably confident that I would be surrounded by great people. In fact, if I had to identify the people that I would want to work with, several of them would already be employed at this company.</p> <p>You know that’s a good sign right?</p> <p>I know people who have left this company, and I have seen how there is still respect for them. They weren’t tossed to the wind when they left. Articles and videos by these people are still up, still promoted and still relevant.</p> <p>In thinking of the kind of people that I want to be around, these seems like my tribe.</p> <p>Honestly, the hardest part of being out on my own for the last two years