Full name?: Rebecca Juliet
Position / Job title?: Singer/Songwriter
When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
In all honesty, I wanted to be a pirate for a while. It was pretty distressing to learn at around age six that people didn’t roam the high seas with trusty parrots anymore.
If you could look into a crystal ball and see 20 years into your future, what would you want to see?
I’d want to see that I was fulfilling my “contentment but not complacency” motto. It’s my goal to find happiness and joy in whatever situation I find myself, but not let that detract from my desire to effectuate change (i.e. not become complacent in my happiness)
Do you have any career role models? Who are they?
My parents are my career role models. They both really lived the classic “up by your bootstraps” American Dream à la Benjamin Franklin. They both come from economically modest backgrounds, and they worked amazingly hard to get to the high profile positions they now both have. Even with all of the important and demanding work that they do, they still focus on family first, which is really laudable.
What is the best piece of advice that you have ever received – career-related or otherwise?
My favorite advice I’ve ever received is not to compare my success (or lack thereof) to someone else’s success. It sounds so simple, and yet, most—if not all—of us act like there is a finite amount of success. Internalizing that someone else’s test score, for example, doesn’t change the value of my own is an important lesson, and one that I’m glad that I’ve embraced.
If you married a millionaire husband and didn’t have to work, would you? (Be honest.)
Even if I didn’t financially have to work, I really still would. Of course, my hypothetical husband’s money might affect the kind of work I would do, in that I’d be able to take more risks and be more creative in my career.
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