From the first job to the next one. Interview answers, the first 90 days, asking for a raise, choosing a direction and knowing when to leave, with the exact words where the words matter.
You said yes to the extra report. You said yes to covering the Thursday call. You said yes to "just having a look" at the new starter's work, and yes…
Sunday evening arrives and something in your chest tightens. You've started calculating how many years until you could plausibly do something else. You spend a suspicious amount of time on…
You know you're supposed to network. Everyone says so. And every time you try, you end up standing near a table of cheese cubes, holding a drink you don't want…
A year in, you've noticed something. The work you're doing now looks nothing like the work you were hired to do. You're handling things that weren't in the job description.…
Nobody tells you that the first month of your first real job is mostly boring and slightly humiliating. You pictured contribution. What you get is a laptop that won't connect…
You prepared for the hard questions. You had a story ready for "describe a conflict on a team." You'd thought carefully about where you want to be in five years.…
The advice is always "follow your passion", and it assumes you have one. Most people don't, or not one that anybody will pay for. What they have is a job…
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