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What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your name on?

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Re: What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your name on?

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Post by Balgair »

mdorazio wrote: post #71

Article comments and comments in this thread seem to miss the point of the title entirely. Here's some actual advice I don't want my name on, but seems pretty effective based on working at a lot of different Big Cos: - Always go for prestige over purpose. Have a choice between a shiny project with very little actual impact to the company and a behind the scenes project that will actually make lives better for employe…

> Especially throwing other people under the bus.

Hard disagree with this one.

I've seen better success with 'compliment everyone behind their backs, giving a good reason'.

Throwing everyone under the bus can be very very effective, but it's got to be for a very short run at the goal, typically. If you end up working with those people again, you're cooked.

I'd say, if you don't see yourself working with that person ever again in the next 6mo. to 1 year, you can throw others under the bus, provided you can get ahead of them on the org charts and the cocktail talk. If you are going to be working with those people again and they are in your radius of org chart or cocktail talk, compliment them all behind their backs relentlessly.

Don't be a doormat, of course, but sing other's praises. You'll get a reputation for being a great person to work with, and everyone wants to work with a great person to work with.

Everything else on this list is spot on, great write up!

Re: What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your name on?

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Post by RandomBacon »

Erudite_Genius wrote: post #5

Never see a job as a career. The ONLY PATH for wealth is to work for yourself by starting and building your own business. Make no mistake... You are always building a business, and if you're not building YOURS, you are building THEIRS.

It's not the "only" path, but it is a better path than most. You're right about everything else though.

Re: What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your name on?

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Post by merpnderp »

Scoutmaster wrote: post #104
PaulOlteanu wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So what things should someone in university atm look to do to ensure they're maximizing their means

Be seen. Volunteer for on-campus events that are organized by the university (find the person running something, and ask them directly if there's anything you can do to help them). Always ask "Is there anything else I can do to help" after completing a task. Always be the first to start volunteering (show up early) and the last person to stop volunteering (stay late). If you're a person of good character and genuine…

If you do this, you'll quickly get snatched up into some professor's research project and forced into grad school, like it or not. There you'll be forced to get your PhD and spend your life doing well paid research in something you're terribly interested in. Awful.

Re: What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your name on?

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Post by 9nGQluzmnq3M »

driverdan wrote: post #107
mdorazio wrote: post #71

Article comments and comments in this thread seem to miss the point of the title entirely. Here's some actual advice I don't want my name on, but seems pretty effective based on working at a lot of different Big Cos: - Always go for prestige over purpose. Have a choice between a shiny project with very little actual impact to the company and a behind the scenes project that will actually make lives better for employe…

> Get the scoop on what's actually going on at executive levels by making friends with the office managers/personal assistants. I'd expand this to always make friends with gatekeepers. Office managers, PAs, front desk, kitchen staff, building security, etc. They're hardworking people who tend to be ignored and mistreated. Respect them, be friendly, and it will open many gates along with making their lives better.

Genuine question: how is making friends with the kitchen staff going to advance your career?

Re: What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your name on?

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Post by JackFr »

mdorazio wrote: post #71

Article comments and comments in this thread seem to miss the point of the title entirely. Here's some actual advice I don't want my name on, but seems pretty effective based on working at a lot of different Big Cos: - Always go for prestige over purpose. Have a choice between a shiny project with very little actual impact to the company and a behind the scenes project that will actually make lives better for employe…

> - Play politics. A lot. Especially throwing other people under the bus.

That's a gun with one bullet. If you use it, you better use it wisely, cause there are no takebacks if you miss.

Re: What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your name on?

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Post by the_watcher »

vvanders wrote: post #78
the_watcher wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some bonuses actually are contractually guaranteed. They might be variable by performance, but every company I've worked for with a bonus plan has guaranteed some bonus outside of the absolute worst performance (in which case you should be looking for a new job long before this becomes an issue)

Hah, may I point you to the fact that MiB writers still haven't been paid royalties[1] because the movie was never "profitable"? [1] https://twitter.com/ed_solomon/status/1139031900931198976

Not really sure how pointing out that Hollywood accounting exists relates at all to my noting that some bonuses are contractually guaranteed. Such as mine, which guarantees an X-Y% of base salary bonus based on my performance.

Re: What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your name on?

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Post by Balgair »

breakerbox wrote: post #96
anonadvice2 wrote: post #63

Get an Adderall or Vyvanse prescription. There are plenty of doctors who will prescribe it without grilling you too hard for a legitimate ADHD diagnosis.

This is worth other people chiming in on.

Adderall prescriptions are perfectly fine if you need them to treat ADHD or narcolepsy, but it is an amphetamine and should be treated soberly as such. Though addiction with proper medical supervision is known to be low, in recreational and non-therapeutic usage, addiction is significant [0]. Amphetamine addiction is known to not be the most pleasant experience. Withdrawal and relapse cycles are also not very pleasant.

I'd not advise lying to your MDs in order to try to get Adderall. If you feel that your job requires you to fake ADHD or narcolepsy in order to do good work, it's time to find another job. Money will not buy your health back, it will not buy years of your life back, and is not worth a chance (small as it is) at an amphetamine addiction.

Honestly, good sleep, exercise, and eating right are the ways to help you get an edge on the competition. Mostly because no one ever does it. Granted, I take a few cups of coffee in the morning to get going too, so I suppose I am a bit of a hypocrite here. :P

It's not rocket science, faking a disease to score amphetamines is a poor decision.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adderall

https://www.addictions.com/meth/

Re: What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your name on?

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Post by JackFr »

mdorazio wrote: post #71

Article comments and comments in this thread seem to miss the point of the title entirely. Here's some actual advice I don't want my name on, but seems pretty effective based on working at a lot of different Big Cos: - Always go for prestige over purpose. Have a choice between a shiny project with very little actual impact to the company and a behind the scenes project that will actually make lives better for employe…

> - Loyalty is for chumps.

That's simply not true, but ...

- Be loyal to people not things.

- Loyalty is earned, not given out freely.

Re: What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your name on?

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Post by kwizzt »

emanreus wrote: post #106

Feel free to run over people, there's no shortage of them. Women are dead weight, don't hire them. Think what's useful, not what's good or bad, true or false. Always ask yourself what's in it for me.

Care to explain more about the "women are dead weight part"?

Re: What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your name on?

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Post by orn688 »

emanreus wrote: post #106

Feel free to run over people, there's no shortage of them. Women are dead weight, don't hire them. Think what's useful, not what's good or bad, true or false. Always ask yourself what's in it for me.

Not sure if this is trolling or what, but either way, can someone with more karma please flag this?
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