What advice do you wish you had when you got your first job? Be as general or specific as you want. I’m talking advice from when to speak up or defended ideas to putting money into a 401k. I’d love to hear anything.

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Save your work as you never know what will happen. Don’t present work until you’ve prepared answers to all of the questions you think your audience will ask. Pay attention to how you enter a room. When someone new starts in your department invite them to grab coffee.

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learn to present well. then get in front of client. make the client like you.

you’ll sell ideas and you’ll get promoted faster.

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Save. Save. Save.

Set up a 401K and a Roth IRA

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