9 career truths that will make your life easier

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You've probably read a lot of career advice. Probably more than you need. I dare say you're itching for more career advice, especially if you don't even have a job, let alone a career. Am I right?

You've probably received a lot of career advice from well-meaning people, especially those who think they know what's best for you, so they give you advice that barely works for them. Don't hold it against them, they mean nothing bad. They actually want the best for you, but they show it in the wrong way.

It doesn't matter how much you work or what you do, you will senegal phone number list get advice whether you like it or not. I get it too, and I advise others as well. You don't have to accept absolutely every piece of advice you get, but it's not a bad idea to remember the best ones that you like, write them down somewhere, and if nothing else, at least think about them.

People often ask me for advice, even about things I don't understand. People I know well, people I know only partially, and people I don't know at all ask for advice. I always try to help, even though I'm not sure I always say what they want to hear.

That's why giving advice is often thankless. When you give advice to someone, you have two options – lie and tell them what they want to hear, which often means bad advice, or be honest and give good advice, but that can lead to people getting offended because they didn't hear what they wanted.

I am often said to be painfully honest. I am not interested in political correctness, I do not like to say what I think others want to hear, and I am terribly annoyed by the Snowflake generation. Do you know who and what the Snowflake generation is? They are the mimosas of today who are offended by everything they hear that does not correspond to their way of thinking, while at the same time they are convinced that a lot of things belong to them simply because it is how it should be. This is the privileged group of people who think that they should get something simply because they deserve it. They are the first in line when disappointment is shared.

There are many myths and legends about careers. There are countless articles on the internet advising us that we need to do what we love and what fulfills us, otherwise we will end up miserable, unhappy and depressed. I don't deny that it is important to do what we love, but I have written many times that it is impossible to find a job that will completely suit our wishes and tastes.

The perfect job and dream career don't exist. For every job you love to do, there will be at least as many activities you don't enjoy, but which you have to do because no one else will do them but you, and unfortunately, they won't do them themselves.

I always enjoy the creative part of marketing, brainstorming ideas, preparing campaigns, organizing events, and similar activities that are part of the fun part of the job. What others don't see and aren't aware of is that behind all those fun activities lie hours of work that involve a lot of additional work that isn't even the least bit creative.

When you have a certain budget and you have to prepare a campaign or event, you spend weeks in meetings, hours looking at Excel spreadsheets until all the numbers get mixed up before your eyes and you calculate how much it will all cost you, whether the entire project will be profitable and how you will pay for it in the end. That's the most important thing of all - how to pay for something.

No one will appreciate your creative ideas if they don't make a profit. No one will pat you on the back because you managed to organize an event that you spent 50,000 euros on, brought a chef from Paris and all the journalists from the area, but which in the end turned out to be a failure. Trust me when I tell you that even the best and most expensive idea can turn out to be a complete failure if the results are not what you expected.

That's why every time I get a call from a prospective student who wants to enroll in the Faculty of Economics, wants to work in marketing because they hate numbers, and think they have good ideas, I have to bring that person down to earth because obviously no one wants that except me, and I don't like people to be disappointed.

I believe that everyone must find three activities in life

An activity that will bring you income

An activity that you enjoy doing and is creative

An activity that relaxes you

One activity doesn't have to exclude the others, but it's important not to limit your life in the desire to get 3 in 1. No one is stopping you from striving for it, but it's important to remember that it's much harder to get 3 in 1 than each of these activities separately.

The activity that will bring you income must be a job that pays the bills. No one is saying that it has to be a job that you hate, but don't be too dramatic either. The important thing is that there is at least something about the job that you like. If you are happy with the salary, the people in the company, the working hours, or just the fact that you have a job, that is already a big plus.

You should always strive to do what you love, but any job is a good job if you earn money from it, you are valued as a person and an expert, and you can fulfill some of your desires in your free time. Even if it is a job where you have the opportunity to learn, develop, and progress, you can consider yourself lucky. Although, in these parts where we live, I would say that having any job is like winning the lottery, so we won't mince words.