What’s the best career advice you ever got??!!
Anything related to maintaining a good personal life & mental health along with driving career forward?! Go!

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“It’s just a job”

I used to think getting into BCG, with all its perceived prestige, is #lifegoal
Nowadays I secretly hope they would counsel me out sometimes lol (but I know they wouldn’t)

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Doing well in your career doesn’t mean bending backwards for it. Doing “good enough” is key to long-term success ie not burning out - hard to learn for some at first since we are taught in school that you should put 200% in for everything

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Build habits intentionally on day 1 of your career (max out 401k, routine time to work out). Much harder to put these in later in your career / break other routines that didn’t arise intentionally.

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Heard it on a podcast lol

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You can make your own path, you don’t need to follow the one set out in front of you.

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the firms want you to buy a BMW, trophy wife (sexist I know), join the country club, send your kids to private school, etc, because then you are dependent on them to continue that lifestyle.

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holy s*** this is exactly the realization I’m coming to - like what if I don’t want to eat at starched white tablecloth restaurants forever

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