As a rookie salesman I had a very difficult time getting started.  However, once the ball started rolling, I enjoyed a spectacular four-year run of success.  This led to a career change and new job in New York City.  It was exciting and rewarding, but required that I leave home each morning before my two little girls were awake and most of the time when I returned at night they were already asleep.  I could not handle that style of parenting, so in just three months' time we moved back to Columbia, South Carolina.
I got into a promotional-type business and temporarily enjoyed some success which quickly evaporated.  At that point I stopped growing and started swelling, which led to sixteen additional job and career changes within the following five years.  I became a super-critic, a know-it-all, and a very difficult person to work with.  One of the companies I briefly worked for was an insurance company which had been in business for many years.  This astonished me because they were obviously way behind the times and I had some absolutely brilliant ideas which would revolutionize their business and expand their market share.  They rejected these very significant ideas.  I left in a huff, wondering how they would ever survive - which, incidentally, they did.