Best career advice ever?

What’s the best career advice you’ve ever been given? Have you followed it?

Various people I’ve worked with have given me career advice over the years. And frankly, I’ve followed hardly any of it.

For me, the best one that I’ve ever seen is this one – I have been following it for years:

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A few thoughts – I’m keen to hear what you think too!

• There is nothing wrong in staying with one team or company for a long time, or ‘forever’. If the circumstances are fine, your needs are met, and you don’t dread coming to work every morning, then that is fantastic.
• Not everyone can afford leaving their job because it is an awful place. That’s a different topic entirely – how do you cope in such a place? I could share a few ‘horror’ stories myself.
• The above advice assumes that a reader has an undersanding of their mission or purpose. Sometimes this is the first stumbling block that we need to overcome. What would you advise a person who hasn’t got this figured out just yet?

As leaders, we sometimes want to hold on to team members who we enjoy working with while they are not happy where they are. Working with them on how to fix things is absolutely the way to go. Sometimes the fix is quite straighforward.

But ultimately, it will be the person’s choice whether to stay or leave. Our job as leaders is to make the decision as supported as possible.

What’s the best or favourite career advice you’ve been given? Let me know in the comments!

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