Early Career Advice
Career advice for young people and/or people early on in their career
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Early Career Advice
Maintain a diversity of pursuits — you want to ensure that, no matter how engrossed you become in one, you never forget that the others exist.
Brian Timar • Mimetic
The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living
Randy Komisar • 6 highlights
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Advice I would give to a college freshman:
These next four years, one of your main goals should be to figure out how not to have the rest of your life be a long series of soul-sapping jobs
If you want to be happy after college, learn how to do one or multiple of these:
• Run your own business doing something you love (eg massage, coaching, art di... See more
Make sure your job has clear price signals for success and failure. Be suspicious of roles that compensate you with status or non-financial rewards.
Brian Timar • Mimetic
Perhaps the best career advice I’ve heard is to lower the stakes. When we loosen our grip on the “right” path to pursue, we open ourselves to what the universe has to offer.