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Be aware of the machinations around you - it is not just good work but connections that make your career. Learn to play politics so that, when you have to, you can…

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Change jobs more frequently. Raises do not keep up with inflation.

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Work your absolute tail off while you're young, and have the energy and free time to do so. Build your wealth early, so your finances aren't entirely tied to your job later in life. You want to have a solid financial base for you to have options later.

Change jobs often, and don't get too complacent.

Network, or at least find some people who you look up to, work well with, and/or worth learning from. Keep in contact with them.

Get yourself mentors at everything stage of your career.

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Don’t spend all your salary- save and invest.
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“Apply to the job sooner, you are employable.”

I’m self taught, I freelanced for 12 years due to imposter syndrome. Once I finally took on FTE I thrived to a whole new level.

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Understand that your work will not. Speak for itself. Doing a great job becomes expected and unappreciated. Promotions and advancement go to those who self advocate without bragging

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Think about where a project or qualification will actually take you. Do you really need it to get what you want? Check with people who would be employing you, don't assume a higher qualification is automatically better/worth more. Don't think that getting a PhD will necessarily make you marketable, focus on what skills and experience you will have gained from it. Are these in demand in the field you want to enter? Is what you have now more flexible than spending several years working yourself into a highly specialised but not very valuable corner? A taught MSc may be more valuable to employers. A lot of PhD graduates in life sciences in the UK (in my immediate vicinity in a top ranking UK life sciences institute) are immediately having to switch to something else because post-doc opportunities are extremely limited, industry doesn't consider academia to be GLP experience and wants new grads they can train up, and senior jobs in industry are limited to much more senior academics. This may not be the same for other fields/countries.

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