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Doing cool things and telling people about it. That’s the whole game.
It starts earlier (and more awkwardly) than you’d think.
During my first week at my new aviation job, I was asked to write a proposal for a fuel nozzle overhaul.
Fuel nozzle? Overhaul?
Prop-o-sal?
Super striking out on this one.
I decided to ask my boss for direction.
He thought about it for a moment, grumbled, and gestured towards the shop floor.
I stood there patiently, waiting for more details. (Maybe some words?)
He frowned at me and turned back to his computer.
So, I guess that’s that.
I wandered out onto the very large shop floor and tried to find help.
Eventually, a colleague took pity on me and pointed me in the right direction.
I got that proposal out... but it was the definition of awkward sauce.
Enter Mo
A few weeks after the “fuel nozzle incident”, I learned that I would be hosting my first customer visit. Clients from the Middle East, which included specific protocols in addition to a contract review.
We’re talking meal etiquette, greetings, and a few other things I’d been vaguely briefed on but didn’t fully grasp.
That’s when I met Mo, the technician.
He approached me about the visit and said he wanted to help.
I was beyond grateful. Later that day, I sat beside him while he dismantled a subsection of a T56 engine. While he was cutting lock wire, we chatted about 2 things:
First: How an airplane engine works.
Second: Which caterers I should use for entertaining our overseas guests.
Meal etiquette and gas turbines. All in the same conversation.
It was one of the most useful hours of my early career.
Doing Cool Things
That fuel nozzle proposal was not glamorous.
But that first year led to a 15-year career in aviation and enough airplane knowledge to be dangerous.
Marketing and sales knowledge to become lethal.
A career that took me around the world.
Led me to start my own business.
The awkward stuff turned out to be the point. And in its own way, kinda cool.
You know this. You figure it out as you go.
Plus, you know that “Mo” can’t be Googled. Even in the age of AI, you need the people.
Try This
You’ve got a Mo story.
You ARE a Mo.
Step 1. Find the angle: Do the first, last, best, worst method to find the good ones.
First job. Last big client win. Best conversation at a conference. Worst project you survived.
Pick one and start there.
Step 2. Capture it by:
Writing it down
Recording it as a short video
Framing it as a lesson, a method, a toolkit
Step 3. Share it:
On social media (LinkedIn is still the champion for B2B)
In your email newsletter (ahem, ahem)
At your next event
And do it in your style.
Dry humour or dramatic flair, data-informed or straight opinion. All welcome.
The doing builds the career. The telling is how it compounds.
What’s your Mo story? I’d love to hear it
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with Pamela Wilton
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