Job Tip: Get Out of Your Comfort Zone

By Brian Clifford

I had the privilege of hearing Sophia Salis speak to my Communications Arts Seminar along with my classmates. A St. Thomas Aquinas College graduate, she currently works for Orange and Rockland Utilities in the communications department. She was a very energetic speaker who truly loves what she does and that was very inspirational. She spoke of her start at a local radio station, when the on air talent retired she was put on air and was forced out of her comfort zone. This pushed her to grow as a communicator and in her words, “you never grow if you stay in your comfort zone.”

When offered a new opportunity as a young professional, we should get out of our comfort zone in order to learn about ourselves. This mentality carried her to eventually take a job with a power company and got her back to being able to do what she really likes, which is writing. She spoke to us about how she hopes that Orange and Rockland will expand their social media output and eventually spread their internal newsletter to the public to show their customers what their current progress is in and out of the office.