Part 3: Listen To Your Gut

2 different job ops presented themselves to me over the past month. That in itself is pretty darn flattering. I wasn’t even looking…plop, they just landed on my door step. For the first time in my 30 years, someone pursued me rather than me beating down their door. In fact, this past week I was flown to Dallas, TX to meet the executive team of one of these companies.

Big $, big opportunity, big future AND big reservations.

It was that darn gut feeling again, the same one I had when I bought the speaker from the guys in the child molester van and the time I handed my credit card # to the scam artist selling me a $38,700/year job.

I’m much older now and hopefully much wiser. But for some reason, I was tempted to ignore my gut.


I had been meeting various members of the team all day long, talking the talk, fielding questions, so on and so forth. Around 4pm everyone had a conference call so I hung out in the 4th floor lobby, contemplating my future and why I didn’t feel right about this.

Gut: You’re older now and hopefully wiser.
Me: But wow, I could double or possibly triple my current salary.

Gut: You’re older now and hopefully wiser.
ME: Maybe I’m just being overly cautious.

Gut: You’re older now and hopefully wiser.
Me: Walk away Brian. Just walk away. Walk…

It was 1 week ago today that I was sitting in the 4th floor of a Dallas office complex. I listened to my gut. You see - I’m older now and YES, I’m wiser.

Also read:
Part 1: Listen To Your Gut
Part 2: Listen To Your Gut