Career Advice for Trouble Makers
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Competence comes with experience.
The best way for a troublemaker, or creative person, to survive and thrive in a career that you love is to focus on doing your best work and learning something new every single day.
What you learned in school is how to think. What you learn on the job is how to think in a way that makes you valuable to your employer.
Do you know anyone whose opinion you trust, anyone who you consider a mentor, anyone you look up to as a role model, who is an asshole?
It takes fifteen years to have fifteen years of experience.
The most successful people in our business, by and large, are humble, accessible, and down to earth.