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Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life
young workers who regularly quit their jobs and ended up better for it. “People who switch jobs more frequently early in their careers tend to have higher wages and incomes in their prime-working years,” one of the co-authors, the economics professor Henry Siu, told me. “Job-hopping is actually correlated with higher incomes, because people have fo
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Abhilash Rao added 5mo ago
- 1. Your career is not your life2. Explore, then exploit3. Don't do the job you want to tell other people you do. Do the job you want to do.4. Be ruthlessly honest with yourself about what you value—and how much professional success matters to you5. Flow comes from voluntary, difficult, worthwhile work
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Brian Sholis added 2y ago
- "This counsel is surely weighted toward white-collar knowledge work, although I hope it’s at least somewhat valuable to any reader."
from Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life by The Atlantic
Brian Sholis added 2y ago