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Navigating Risk vs. Reward How do you decide when a risk is worth taking? Have you ever taken a big risk that paid off—or one that didn’t go as planned? I have done both. At 19, I took over ownership of a small franchise pizza restaurant. It was a good opportunity but it didn’t go as planned. The restaurant didn’t make money and I struggled to make ends meet. Ultimately, I sold it for a very small profit, but nothing for the time and effort put in. Then, in 2013, I quit my safe job to start a risky digital marketing company. We grew quickly and in 2014, a large competitor made a generous offer to buy out the company. I took that offer and I began working for them. Today, I am much more careful about taking risks. I’m almost 40 and my time is more valuable to me now. I will still take risks but the rewards must be outsized for me to really do so. Let’s talk about the toughest risks you’ve taken in life, what you learned from them, and how you weigh risk vs. reward in your decisions today.
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I think that one of the biggest risks that I took was a job related one like yours, back in '15 and '16 I used to work for the UN and it was pretty much standard stuff, video editing and some basic translation stuff and what not, and then, I was asked if I wanted to take a much better paying job, but the catch was that I would be stationed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and I was like sure I can do that, but I had to go through stuff like basic training for that, and I saw a couple of active combat zones. It wasn't nice. Like inside the compound was okay, but outside of it, not so much and when we were travelling. I saw the inside of a jail cell in Djibouti, because we were trying to score some hash from a place, and we were the only foreigners there, so they automatically thought we were running the place.. one of our superiors from the UN had to come and rescue us, even after I showed ID, I still have the mugshot, it's hilarious. But now, I try not to take huge risks and go to active combat zones anymore
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Best story yet here! I thought mine had plot twists. 🤜
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hahah thanks homie, now I need to go back and read yours!
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