If you could start your career over, what would you do different?

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Gotten Adderall earlier in my career.

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What are they? I was prescribed. I did not take them... I don't plan to... but I wanted to know the pros and cons from someone using...

If I had the same tools and resources I did at the time, probably not much.

If I could be who I am now, with my adhd diagnosis, years of effective therapy to get myself sorted on the trauma and reactivity that was holding me back - a whole helluva lot.

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Change job more often. Loyalty does not pay the bills. 💸

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Pick Squirtle instead of charmander

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Spot on. The path to a successful career is not to do what everyone else blindly thinks is best, but actually to choose the path that makes you most competitive vs. what everyone else chose. It’s about playing the career meta game.

That’s what you meant right?

Not go to law school 🙂

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No tax llm lol. Litigation and I just hate the petty arguing over nonsense. I think a lot of it has to do with the esq egos. Law firm culture also sucks.

Start working in 2022 as new analysts are getting paid more than my current salary as a 27 year old

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I've been in this industry for 5 years now and folks with 2 yoe are earning more than me doing less impactful work than me. This is sooo fk d up. Damn..

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Stay a sugar baby.

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It was the best of times.

Change jobs at least every 2 years to get more experience in different sectors AND and more $$$$

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Maybe add on a CS component.

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Subsist on potatoes and go all-in on BTC and ETH

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Don’t regret majoring in accounting
Honestly don’t regret going to a small college

If I had to do it all over again - I would have immediately after graduation enrolled in a ms - information systems, data science, or business analytics. Given that my full attention to get to 150 college credit hours

I ended up working while getting my ms in taxation. Honestly, that just drained me. Also, I see a huge need for people that know something about tech and accounting.

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I’d be a chef🧐

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Wait actually I know a guy who moonlights as a chef after work. You can do it!! So it is possible

Work harder to get better grades in law school and get better internships so I could have a better job now that I’m graduated and passed the Bar exam.
Or gotten in and stayed in better shape so I could have joined and made a career out of the military.

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I’m 61 so that would take way to long to answer. Happy where I am now in nonprofit leadership but I could write a book on the path that got me here.

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M1 got the right idea there.

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To all the divorced folks out there...

1) What went wrong in your relationship?
2) What's one piece of advice you'd give to us singletons before jumping into a long term relationship/marriage?

I like to learn from other people's mistakes 😅

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