Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young

Re:Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young by pinky1417 on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @05:12AM (#19795589)

Being pleasant costs you nothing and yields tremendous benefits. And you can still disagree with people and not be a pushover. I can have a debate with someone and not be a rude, unpleasant person.

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Re:Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young by loriverkutya on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @08:51AM (#19796557)

> Being pleasant costs you nothing

This lie is repeated pretty often. I had several periods in my life (few months of sleep deprivation after my daughter was born, stressful periods during university, etc), when it required a huge amount of conscious effort to be nice with colleagues, not to mention dealing with assholes.

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Re:Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young by illvm on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @08:43PM (#19803334)

Agreed. Emotional work has quite the cost.

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Re:Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young by jachee on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @10:09PM (#19803915)

Imagine if those assholes had simply been pleasant.

What goes around comes around, in a nice way, too. :)

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