{"id":553,"date":"2020-02-28T17:23:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T17:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/?p=553"},"modified":"2020-02-28T17:23:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T17:23:41","slug":"consulting-101-never-burn-a-bridge-and-saying-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/28\/consulting-101-never-burn-a-bridge-and-saying-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"Consulting 101 &#8211; Never Burn a Bridge and saying Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a>Never Burn a Bridge and saying Goodbye<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone you meet and work with is a possible future client, coworker or friend. Keep this in mind as you wrap up client engagements. Even if a project was rocky or had you working long hours, be sure to leave on a good note with a good impression. When work pops up later, you want to be on the short list of people they call. It\u2019s easy to give a bad client the bird as you walk out but that small moment of self-satisfaction is not worth the value of what may come later on. Your network is a spider\u2019s web of potential. You never know who may know who or who went to school with someone else\u2019s wife\u2019s best friend that can lead to a project, job or opportunity ten years down the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you interested in starting a career in consulting? Be\nsure to read the full book <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/38wE3AO\">Jack of all Trades Master of Some; An Introduction to\nConsulting<\/a> available on Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never Burn a Bridge and saying Goodbye Everyone you meet and work with is a possible future client, coworker or friend. Keep this in mind as you wrap up client engagements. Even if a project was rocky or had you working long hours, be sure to leave on a good note with a good impression. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","category-consulting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}