A career is a marathon, not a sprint
Most success comes from repetition, not new things
Deprioritise your career when your kids are young
If you have skills, commitment and passion, careers tend to take care of themselves.
You can also miss the chance to learn. Children teach you a lot more than you teach them. They give you a second chance to see the world for the first time through their eyes.
Never work for horrible bastards
Life is way too short to tolerate really bad bosses. If you find yourself working for one, unless you are desperate or starving, start looking for a new job. Immediately. Then sack the bad boss. By leaving.
In the workforce, always act like you are 35
Recognise that staff are people with finite emotional capacity
Never sacrifice personal ethics for a work reason
Crucial to workplace happiness is value alignment. If you work somewhere that compromises your personal ethics and values, get out of there as quickly as you can. Good people will be unnerved by things that don’t feel right. If it doesn’t feel right, it probably isn’t. Bad things only manifest when good people don’t take a stand.
Fonte: The career advice I wish I had at 25 | Shane Rodgers | LinkedIn