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Rewriting Your Game Career Love Story (Taylor's Version)

Overview:

Unwanted career transitions--layoffs, studio closures, reorganizations, and so on--are a lot like breakups. Sometimes, we sense that something isn't quite right long before the end; at other times, we're blindsided by the full impact of a painful decision that we didn't get to make. At first, we feel crushed, even betrayed; eventually, though, we have to do our best to take back control of our own career narratives and reinvent ourselves for the next era of our careers and lives. This talk will address these very serious challenges through the lighthearted lens of Taylor Swift's music. Heartbreakers gonna break, and haters gonna hate, but hopefully this will help you figure out how to take a bad experience and shake it off!

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