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Enjoying Your Career

Jessica Dill

Business Advisory Manager

Grant Thornton LLP

If we learned everything we needed to know back in Kindergarten… then enjoying your career should be as easy as “LMNOP”.

Life

·         In order to achieve a work/life balance, you have to GET A LIFE!

·         Your best individual work-life balance will vary over time, often on a daily basis.

Mentors

·         Like the proverb says, “it takes a village to raise a child,” it is critical to your career and your sanity to have mentors.

·         Mentors can provide advice, direction, and an occasional shoulder to cry on (only in extreme circumstances, of course!)

Non- Negotiables

·         Non-negotiables are your core values and/or activities that you are unwilling to compromise.

·         If you compromise on your non-negotiables, you will be unhappy.

Obstacles

·         Be prepared to encounter obstacles. You will be challenged, frustrated, overloaded, and even occasionally have a bad hair day!

·         “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste, and what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you didn't think you could do before.” - Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff

People

·         Work with people that inspire you.

·         Work with people you like.

·         Learn to work with people you don’t like and/or people who don’t like you.

Jessica is a Business Advisory Services manager in Grant Thornton LLP’s Carolinas practice and has over seven years of accounting and advisory services experience. Jessica has significant experience in providing accounting assistance and advisory services to companies in various industries, including real estate and construction, healthcare, manufacturing and financial services.

She has served as the Treasurer of the Board of Directors of Charlotte Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure and volunteers with Junior Achievement and Carolina RAIN. She serves as the chair of the National Grant Thornton Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Committee.

Jessica was recently recognized by the Charlotte Business Journal as a Top 40 Under 40 Individual!


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