#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Apr 2 2018 - 8:30pm ET

via Gordon Joly

TOPIC

Career regrets and how to avoid them

Regrets suck, so let's talk about career regrets and some strategies for avoiding them, or dealing with them after the fact. This week's chat is inspired by Ms Career Girl's How to avoid the 5 biggest career regrets article. And here are a few other articles on the topic:

Coping with Career Regret by Priscilla Claman over at Life Hacker
5 Common Career Regrets To Avoid by Glenn Llopis at Forbes

Why We Have Career Regrets, And What To Do About Them by Caroline Beaton on HuffPost

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT WE'VE CHANGED THE TIME TO 8:30PM ET!

While you're here please consider checking out our new feature for 2018: #LISPROCHAT Reads, our professional development book club. The next book club session will be running next Monday, March 23, at 8:30 pm ET.

QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1 Have you ever found yourself having a regret in your LIS career? If so, share that with us if you don't mind.

Q2 Did you overcome that regret? If so, how? What strategies and tools did you use? If not, why don't you think you did?

Q3 What are your suggestions to people for avoiding regrets in their LIS careers?

Q4 What do you think some of the biggest dangers for regret are in the LIS industry?

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