People keep telling me to "do what's good for you". What does that mean

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If an option helps you rather than your firm, do that. Don’t just do things that are good for the firm. Look out for yourself and your opportunities, basically.

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Set goals and advocate for yourself instead of doing or wanting what bosses and other people in your life, or societal norms, suggest.

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Make bad decisions based on emotion.

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Don’t drink the koolaid, don’t be stuck holding the bag, and put your own oxygen mask on first before helping others

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It means take care of yourself first. If you died today, your job would be reposted before you were even cold.

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How about just do what's right? If you are using either your firms' or your needs / wants as the determining factor, you are likely to get into a bind. Putting yourself first has to be for limited things, otherwise you become a selfish jerk or if not enough, then you become a push over.

That wouldn’t apply to a drone like you

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