Sydney Thomas has made five major career changes, from government to nonprofits to startups to venture capital. She credits tolerance for uncertainty as the key to each transition, saying it built the courage she needed to keep moving forward.
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What is one thing about you that you don't get to share as often, but you wish other people knew? Ooh. So I have had 5 career changes. It's, it's been a lot. And so I think like going from the, when I was in the public sector on the government side to then the nonprofit side, to then the startup world, to then the VC world has been such A life of learning. And so just really grateful for all of the switches because I think they turned me into who I am today. And a big part of managing the switches was actually being able to have a certain amount of capacity for uncertainty. Mm-hmm. And so also really grateful for all of that navigation of those uncertain waters because I think that is how I was able to build the courage to, to do this.