The 9 Career Lessons I Learned from Watching Parks and Rec:

• 🤓 Be a Ben: Find your room. While Ben never stuck with the accounting job, you can’t ignore his genuine fit with the folks at that company.
• 🎭 Be an Ann: Be multifaceted! A nurse who can also somehow do PR. 😂 Explore various avenues of your skillsets and how they can interrelate.
• 👀 Be an April: Find your true calling by giving it the time it deserves. After deeply learning about herself and exploring role options, she pivoted careers happily.
• 🧐 Be a Ron: Help your team feel empowered at work by listening more than you speak. You may just find that you connect the dots better than others this way.
• 💁‍♂️ Be a Tom: Be entrepeneurial! This will make you stand out, whether its pursuing “intrapreneurship” to innovate within your company or exploring gigs on the side.
• 💃 Be a Donna: Start a side gig! Her side gig (real estate) turned into her full time job eventually. You never know what can happen if you lean into your interests.
• 👞 Be an Andy: Lean in to your creative side and be open-minded with jobs that could be a fit for you (being a TV host for a kids show was clearly not his original plan)
• 😃 Be a Jerry/Larry/Garry/Barry/Terry: Make people laugh.
• 👭 Be a Leslie: Be a friend to your team. While Leslie has so many admirable traits and serious work ethic, most of all, she is a human who cares deeply about her team.

What'd you learn from Parks and Rec?

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