最近，我在矿业女性（WIM）教育活动中发表了讲话。被问到真的很棒，因为我真的很尊重组织以及他们为帮助和支持整个行业的女性所做的一切。这些类型的活动非常适合与人结识，建立您的网络，分享经验，并使我们许多人有机会与其他志趣相投的专业人员聊天。
我被要求谈论我的职业并分享我的一些经历。While I was thinking about what to say, I tried to remember what it was like to be starting off in your career (feels like a long time ago now…), I was wondering what the most valuable professional lessons were that I’ve learned as I‘ve made my way through the oil and gas and mining industries. My main nuggets of old age wisdom were about never underestimating how much you can learn from failure - some of my biggest learning’s were from when I’ve fallen flat on my face! Other key areas that have stayed with me, have been around being happy about the choices you make. Like everyone, I’ve made choices I’ve had second thoughts about after, but as I’ve gotten older, I’ve found it’s better to reconcile yourself with your decisions and if they were truly disastrous make sure you a) do something about it and b) learn from it and don’t make the same choice again. Of course all these things sound very easy with 2020 hindsight but I’m hoping that just mentioning these things to the audience might make them more aware of some things that have helped me over the years.
该活动是在一家城市律师事务所举办的，另一位发言人是一名监管律师，他从事化学和采矿业务。我的Spiel非常倾向于进入采矿业，从而开始了技术道路并改变了更非技术领域，这些领域对当今行业变得同样重要。第二次演讲的重点是法律如何提供包括采矿在内的大量机会。
我希望我们之间我们能够帮助年轻的毕业生，即将成为毕业生，而其他职业女性也知道，采矿是一个拥有大量不同学科机会的行业。谈话结束后，我们所有人都有机会更非正式地聊天，每个人都真正参与其中，并提出了很多问题。与其他女性交谈真的很可爱，我将试图将自己视为“调味”而不是古老的……当然，我希望这次活动也能帮助消除传统的刻板印象，即采矿仅适用于工程师和男人。
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