3 Valuable Career Lessons You Can Learn From The Rise & Fall Of TV Anchor Jacque Maribe

Jacque Maribe is a household name in the media industry.  She has risen from the timid young girl who who went to State House Girls High School and later The University of Nairobi to pursue journalism Journalism to a young woman who has inspired many that there is still success in the media industry.
A well respected journalist and popular media personality, Jacque Maribe was at the top of her career.
She started out as an actress in the Constant Gardener back in 2005 and later on joined K24 TV in 2009 as a Senior Political Reporter until December 2011.
After leaving K24, she immediately joined KISS TV of Radio Africa Group where she worked as a Political Affairs Reporter until October 2012 when she joined the Royal Media Group as a Political Affairs Reporter on Citizen TV a career move that saw her join part of the 9pm news team and began hosting prime time news.
However, this past week, she has been in the news for all the wrong reasons, leading to her employer sending her on compulsory paid leave, until she handles her legal issues.
A career that took her years to build has come crushing down in a matter of days in the name of passion and love.
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Here are some valuable career lessons you can learn from Jacque Maribe
1. Don’t allow your personal life to interfere with your job
When it comes to your career, you need to ensure that nothing comes in the way of you achieving success.
Jacque Maribe was a respected news anchor and was in a place very many journalists want to be -a prime time news anchor and earning a six figure salary.
However, over the past few days, her reputation has been tarnished and all people see now is a woman suspected to be involved in a murder.
Because of this, chances of her going back to how things were are very slim.
In your career, you need to ensure that you don’t allow anything happening in your personal life to destroy all that you have built by ensuring that what you do outside of work will not come back to haunt you.
2. Be careful who you surround yourself with
One question that has risen from the Jacque Maribe saga is “why in the world a respected TV journalist would allow herself to be used the way she did.
As a journalist you would think she would have known better and kept her circle consisting of people who wouldn’t ruin her career.
Not everyone who is around you is happy with your success or is looking out for you. Some people only care about themselves and don’t care how their actions affect others.
This is why you need to be very careful who you choose to surround yourself with. You need to ensure that the people you have around you will not put you in a compromising situation that can cause you to lose your job.
Choose your friends well and surround yourself with people who will help you grow your career not ruin it.
3. The higher you go the harder you fall
Jacque had everything few dream of. She was able to rise from an actress to one of the best prime time TV anchors. And in just a matter of days, her career has come tumbling down and now she is facing charges for something as gruesome as covering up a murder.
You need to remember that the higher up the career ladder you go the more you have to lose. This is why it is very important that you don’t do anything that could cause your downfall.
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The more success you have the more careful you have to be. You need to watch what you say and what you do because you now have more to lose.
You need to develop a habit of thinking before you act so as to avoid doing something that puts your career in jeopardy.
Lastly,
There is no guarantee that you will never face something that can affect your career negatively but the most important thing is to find a way to overcome it and rebuild your career.
It won’t be easy and it will take some time but you should not just give up because you failed at something once.
Whether Jacque is guilty or goes back to being who she used to be remains a matter of discussion.
In the meantime, what we can all do is learn from her rise and fall and ensure that we do things differently.