Taking chances on people

Issue 209: Stories and expectations on the giving and receiving end

"I need someone to take a chance on me," is a phrase I hear a lot. Who can blame them? It's a brutal job market right now and people are hoping for an opportunity to show what they can do. I know well because it happened to me in the first recession in the 2000s.

Taking a chance on a person is making a bet not on what they are now, but the potential of w…