'Business is Business' When it Comes to a Job Change
I have received a lot of positive feedback on my blog entries because readers, family, and friends, say it comes from the heart and I don’t hold back. This one will be no different as I have made a huge career change and want to vent to my readers.
You always hear the saying “business is business” from people in the corporate world. Recently I have had an experience that proves that true and false simultaneously.
I started in commercial real estate under my now former mentor Jim Hodur at Coldwell Banker Commercial NRT. But just recently I was offered a job opportunity with a very successful person in the real estate world that I could not pass up. It all happened so fast.
My mentor Jim had taught me a lot and he had the feeling that I was on the verge of stardom in the industry. Everything was looking up — we had gone from $45 million to probably more than $55 million in listings with leases as well as having some buyers we were working with.
I have always had the utmost respect for Jim for taking the time to teach me and entrusting me with some of his clients. So when I was presented with this new offer the hardest thing to get
over was the fact that I would be leaving Jim, someone who has helped me grow as a person and a force in the industry. But then I remembered: “Business is business.”
I took a job with Mark B. Weiss Real Estate doing something completely different. In the few hours a day that I have spent with Mr. Weiss so far I have learned so much about how to play the market, how to make things work to our advantages in any type of market, and to always, no matter what, think positive.
Mark really hasn’t hired anyone in a long time and so when he offered me a job it was something that I couldn’t pass up because I knew it wouldn’t be sitting on the table forever. It seemed like this was the right time to make my move. Recently, I have turned 23 and am sorting my life out to get to where I want to be in a few years, and I thought this was a good decision.
Jim and I have a few deals still in the works and the commercial group I worked with before still respects me and hopes the best for me. This is where I proved that when it comes to business, it’s not just business — it’s the scope of your life and where you are at that you need to base your decisions on.
Will this job change work for me? Yes — because I am going to make it work. Will I stay in touch with Jim? Yes.
Business is business and I need to make the right decisions for myself, but that doesn’t mean I need to burn a bridge because of it.
Eric D. Walowitz is a Commercial Real Estate Consultant with Mark B. Weiss Real Estate.
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