by Brendan Barca | Oct 24, 2019 | Straddle The Line Blog
Three years ago I was in the midst of a grueling job search. I was trying to make the jump from financial services to the tech industry but getting nowhere. Despite landing interviews with exciting tech companies like Pandora, The Muse, and Buzzfeed, I couldn’t...
by Brendan Barca | Oct 17, 2019 | Straddle The Line Blog
“No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.” – Zen Proverb When I was 26 years old, I realized I was on the wrong career path. The problem was I had no idea what I wanted to do. In an attempt to find my way, I spent a year networking and...
by Brendan Barca | Oct 10, 2019 | Straddle The Line Blog
For the majority of my life, I’ve been someone who overthinks and over-prepares. In my first sales job, we had a presentation contest each spring where the entire sales team would compete for the best 10-minute pitch. That first year, when springtime came...
by Brendan Barca | Sep 13, 2019 | Straddle The Line Blog
In the summer of 2016, I felt stuck in my career. Up to that point I had spent my entire career in sales but something was missing. Outside of work, I began to experiment with alternative business ideas. I tried idea after idea but nothing was sticking. First I...
by Brendan Barca | Sep 13, 2019 | Straddle The Line Blog
Since the start of my career, I was taught that achieving success was difficult. During my first job, my co-workers told me how hard it would be to get to the next level. Then when I got to the next level, my new co-workers complained about how difficult their work...
by Brendan Barca | Sep 13, 2019 | Straddle The Line Blog
Growing up, I thought very little about death. After all, what was there to think about? I was busy chasing down ice cream trucks and later the girls in my biology class. I was young. Young people didn’t die. Even as I went through high school and...
