Best career/work advice you ever got?

[CycloneEye]

So I'm thinking about going in another line of work but want to get some really good advice first. What's the best advice you've heard about work?

Don't burn your bridges, follow your passion?

I want to do it right and having this advice should help

 

[CloneAggie]

So I'm thinking about going in another line of work but want to get some really good advice first. What's the best advice you've heard about work?

Don't burn your bridges, follow your passion?

I want to do it right and having this advice should help

The best advice I've heard about work:

Don't take advice about work from anonymous message boards.

 

[Bobber]

Attitude is the most important thing. Have a good one.

 

[ISUCyclones2015]

Do MIS when you get to College... the women are better looking. (vs Computer Engineering and Science)

 

[2ndCyCE]

Don't take a leak on the office chairs of your attractive co-workers. You will get caught!

:wideeyed:

 

[ISUAgronomist]

Go to industry.

 

[IcSyU]

Being happy is good and all but happy doesn't pay the bills.

 

[Yellow Snow]

My best career advice...

Don't ever get into a drunken brawl at the bar with a co-worker over a fat chick giving us both the googly eyed stare.

You'll get punched in the neck, hit on the head with a brick, and end up in jail.

Not a good situation.

 

[CyOps]

I grew up in Nebraska and talked to a local ISU representative at a college fair while in high school. I told him I was interested in engineering. His words of advice:
"If you graduate from Nebraska and go to get a job after graduation, companies will say, oh, you went to Nebraska, they have a good football program. If you graduate from Iowa State, companies will say, oh, you went to ISU, they have a good engineering program. So unless you are a good football player, I recommend you go to Iowa State."

 

[Boxerdaddy]

"Well, the world needs ditch diggers too." -Judge Elihu Smails

 

[Yellow Snow]

I grew up in Nebraska and talked to a local ISU representative at a college fair while in high school. I told him I was interested in engineering. His words of advice:
"If you graduate from Nebraska and go to get a job after graduation, companies will say, oh, you went to Nebraska, they have a good football program. If you graduate from Iowa State, companies will say, oh, you went to ISU, they have a good engineering program. So unless you are a good football player, I recommend you go to Iowa State."

Excellent advice all around.

 

[jbhtexas]

If you'd like to have an income:

1) look at careers that actually have jobs available, and that are predicted to have jobs available for the next several years.

2) Look at careers that are less affected by economic downturns.

A lawyer is not one of those jobs. My wife was showing me a couple of articles from her recent law review journals. A bunch of lawyers have been laid off over the past few years and are taking much lower pay to get work. Apparently some law schools have been fudging their placement numbers to keep enrollment up, and the young inexperienced grads can't find jobs.

Update on a recent lawsuit in which lawyers were suing law schools...

Glut Leads Lawyers to (Surprise) Sue Law Schools - Businessweek

 

[Cyclone06]

Don't talk about your fling's package in emails while using your Company issued email address.

For the record its OK to talk about your fling's package, just choose the place and medium carefully.

 

[CyclonesForever]

1) Take care of the people who take care of you.
2) Work smarter not harder.
3) Most things can be figured out with a little common sense.
4) In a real world... But this is the real world.

Pretty much take care of people who help you, use common sense, and think things through

 

[isulive2train]

You have to get comfortable being uncomfortable.

 

[michaelrr1]

It's not how well you do your job, it's how much *** you kiss.

 

[SNEDDS3]

Don't dip your pen in the company ink...if you know what I mean.

 

[sambo9907]

If you'd like to have an income:

1) look at careers that actually have jobs available, and that are predicted to have jobs available for the next several years.

2) Look at careers that are less affected by economic downturns.

A lawyer is not one of those jobs. My wife was showing me a couple of articles from her recent law review journals. A bunch of lawyers have been laid off over the past few years and are taking much lower pay to get work. Apparently some law schools have been fudging their placement numbers to keep enrollment up, and the young inexperienced grads can't find jobs.

Update on a recent lawsuit in which lawyers were suing law schools...

Glut Leads Lawyers to (Surprise) Sue Law Schools - Businessweek

Agreed. Do not go to law school unless a) someone else is paying for it (no student loans!!) and b) you have connections to get a job.

Also, you have to be willing to work some less desirable jobs on the way to finding your "perfect" job.

 

[CYdTracked]

A professor once told me that when looking for a job to apply for anything you may even remotely consider doing because the worse thing that could happen is you get offered a job that you decide you don't want to take after you've interviewed for it. It's better to have options than no options at all and the experience you get interviewing never hurts either.

 

[SpokaneCY]

Don't dip your pen in the company ink...if you know what I mean.

Take a job for money and you'll have to earn very penny but find the job you love and you quit working for the rest of your life.

As for real advice, first CPA partner always made us wear suit coats whenever we left the office. As accounting professionals, he wanted to make sure we portrayed the image. Image IS important - don't let someone else control your image.

Also, after 1 particularly tough engagement, same partner pulled me aside and told me regardless of what I thought, I knew more about this guy's financials than he did.

Cultivate a professional image, and carry yourself that way. But NEVER take yourself too seriously.

Oh - and the older set is turned off by tats and piercings. Cover and conceal.